Basically, I bought a kit on IG and got excuse after excuse as to why it couldn’t be shipped (said she was in hospital). Noticed that after awhile this girl was still posting stuff for sale on her account but not answering my messages. Finally told her I would have to file a claim and that’s when she told me that she had already refunded me due to a fault found in the kit.
Problem is, PP says its ‘refund pending’. What does that mean? All I know is the money isn’t in my account yet.
Oh, and noticed that the website linked to this account is smallworldwonders.com. I had NO IDEA the girl I was buying from was the same Kaitlyn or I would have never done business with her. Her IG account name is completely different.
With Kaitlyn’s history of doing business not too sure I’ll ever get my money back.
Izzy…not real familiar with PP, but it looks like from what I read, your seller doesn’t have the funds in her account, so there is a wait time while money clears from her linked account.
Sure hope everything works out OK for you.
Yeah, I didn’t know either for while. Funny, how take your funds immediately but I guess it depends on how the buyer paid and if seller actually have the money available to refund. HOWEVER even if the seller didn’t have the money available it still would refund you just making their account negative.
I’ve been refunded through PayPal before and seen the refund pending status, but only for a short time. If she is refunding you, then I don’t understand why she would need to have the money, she should have it from you! But knowing Kaitlyn and her history, she probably put the kit up for sale, knowing she wasn’t going to actually ship it or sell it, she just needed the money to buy something for herself and once you paid, she used your money right away! PayPal will see that she never shipped anything out to you so you will get your money back, even if they have to give it to you and then go after her to pay them back! So sorry you had to deal with her and get caught up in her scamming ways!
Thanks guys. I know PP tends to side with the buyer especially in a case like this so hopefully it’ll work out.
I’m just mad that I didn’t know it was her! I thought she had disappeared from the doll world lol.
I did get lucky though, her account states friends and family only but I chose not to. If I had I think I would’ve been screwed!
Refund pending means it is being processed. It takes a while for the money to get transferred and it will go back wherever it came from. If you had the money in your PP account it will go there, if it came from CC it will go back there. It always takes few days when the money is being transferred between different banks.
Thank you Ludmila, I wasn’t too sure because I’d just sent the money a few days ago and she hadn’t shipped anything…she’d apparently been in the hospital. Unless all the money she receives goes straight to her bank, I would’ve thought she’d still have the money in her PP account. I’ve refunded before and I thought if you had the money in your balance it was automatic.
That is because it takes so long for the bank to process it. When somebody pays you through PP from their CC or bank account, PP pays you immediately but they may not get the money for couple of days.
Izzy, you can call PP too. It takes some time for some of these things to go through. But if you aren’t sure what’s going on, call them. They’ll explain it to you.
I’ve gotten a refund from a site and it was there the next day but got a refund from macpherson crafts and it took 4-5 days! I think different banks take different times!
