A Paypal Offer - Is This Secure?

Paypal is my preferred way, however it is not foolproof. I recently had
trouble with a buyer, he wrongly claimed a piece of gear I sold him did not
work several weeks after receiving it. It did work.
Well he started a dispute on Paypal. They usually take the buyer's side.
Long story short, Paypal put my account into a negative balance for two
months until all was sorted out. I got the piece back and just as I said,
worked perfectly. Paypal just took his word that it didn't.

Muzikat, the buyer simply wanted their money back. Probably used his CC attached to paypal. Paypal has to side with the buyer since the buyers CC Co. makes the final decision. You did the right thing selling a good item and got screwed. Paypal puts a negative in your account so that they can turn it over to a collection agency to get back the money that they refunded the customer. One way to get around selling an item that works is to word it correctly in the heading. Works fine but selling as is. No returns. Sorry you had bad luck trying to sell a good item. I don't beleive in karma because it just can't happen fast or repeatedly enough to those who take advantage of others. Keep on keepin on.

PayPal could be a nightmare, I sold a pair of speakers 4 years ago to an audiogone member in TX, UPS damage them on transit, took me forever to get an agent to visit the buyer home and give a report, of course always will blame the shipper for not proper packing by ups standards.
To make the story short, the communication between buyer and myself was great but he got frustrated and complained to credit card, credit card get he money from PayPal, and PayPal put my account with negative balance immediately of course I refused to pay, they even not communicate with me to let me know what they were doing on the transaction.
End of nightmare, guy got his money via credit card, I have to pay for damage speakers shipping to me, they sent me to collection agencies tha I never answer after a while, and now I'm unable to use PayPal making my life specially in this web a little hard, cause I have to pay by certified or personal check always.
But I found out that. The best that work with me is to stablished a communication with the person or dealer you are dealing with, as always communication is the key for success like many things in life.
Regards

Guys - I thought bank transfers were reversable. Am I wrong about that? If they are reversable, they are less secure than paypal... I will ask my banker about this...

Peter