How many of you use Paypal to pay for your purchases? This guy, Juan Zamora fed his 1994 Chevy Camaro $26 worth of gas, and then used his Paypal debit card to pay for it.Unfortunately the folks at Paypal made a huge screwup and billed him $81,400,836,908.
Paypal then sent him an email, informing him that his debit card with $90, was maxed out.
Initially, Mr. Zamora thought it must’ve been a joke. But after contacting PayPal customer service he was surprised to see that the company treated it as anything but a laughing matter.
“Somebody from a foreign country who spoke in broken English argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes,” Zamora said. ” ‘Did you get the gas?’ he asked. Like I had to prove that I didn’t pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!”
He would have needed more than 3 billion fill-ups of the amount he actually pumped into his tank in order to reach that outrageous sum.
Eventually, Zamora said, he was finally able to convince the representative that he didn’t deserve to be in the same position as General Motors, who has lost roughly 80 billion dollars since 2005.
When Zamora returned to the Conoco gas station, he said, the attendant would not believe him until he showed her the printout of the PayPal receipt.
Source: Consumerist
LOL those folks at Paypal must be eating grass because how can someone even pump $80 billion worth of gas in the first place. The tiny gas station doesn’t even cost that much.
So have you been wrongly charged for something you didn’t purchase?
It has been a long time since I used Paypal for a purchase and I hope it stays that way.
Yep, by Paypal. They charged me $500 on a $3 purchase. Still didn’t get my money back.
Wow $500 alot of money! I would threaten to burn down their bosses house to reclaim that amount. =P
just the other day, my mum had an unauthorised payment of £50 pounds (that translates into about $5000122323344243422524444 roflmao) and the same day someone tried to scam me out of my account…i hate paypal