Hi guys, sorry for what happened to you.
Just willing to put my experience here... as a seller.
I've sold for many ears small items up to 500 eur without an issue. However, we dumped a few raid controller on the company so they asked me to sell them with my trusty ebay account (750 100% positive feedback etc) so I did it.
I've listed all RAID controllers for 150 EUR each, QTY 10 available. Somebody buyed them ALL at once, putting 1500 EUR in by balance minus the fees and all.
And this is the part that relates to this. Paypal automatically flagged my account and withheld the founds in pending, unable to withdraw/use/etc. The hold took two weeks, and this was just to make sure the buyer gets the item and everything is OK. They eventually released it faster because the buyer received it in a few days and left a positive feedback.
I imagine this guy must of have the same problem, he saw 10K whatever in his balance but I am absolutely confident PayPal blocked such a cash flow for two weeks or maybe 10 days. That is why the helping brother account appeared with the "legit" advise to wait a few more days.
Don't waste to much time with PayPal. Do a chargeback immediately it's very fast and it will go straight to his PayPal account. If you do it the PayPal way he will do more scamming into putting fake tracking or fake nature of the transaction. If you do chargeback he won't be able to do anything of that and his account will get a negative balance and eventually PayPal will contact the police.
More info @ Funds Availability | PayPal UK but it's probably too late now. If any if you initiated a case before those 2 weeks he might not even be able to withdraw anything (could be 1 week because it says it can go down to 1 week if it's in the same country)
Just willing to put my experience here... as a seller.
I've sold for many ears small items up to 500 eur without an issue. However, we dumped a few raid controller on the company so they asked me to sell them with my trusty ebay account (750 100% positive feedback etc) so I did it.
I've listed all RAID controllers for 150 EUR each, QTY 10 available. Somebody buyed them ALL at once, putting 1500 EUR in by balance minus the fees and all.
And this is the part that relates to this. Paypal automatically flagged my account and withheld the founds in pending, unable to withdraw/use/etc. The hold took two weeks, and this was just to make sure the buyer gets the item and everything is OK. They eventually released it faster because the buyer received it in a few days and left a positive feedback.
I imagine this guy must of have the same problem, he saw 10K whatever in his balance but I am absolutely confident PayPal blocked such a cash flow for two weeks or maybe 10 days. That is why the helping brother account appeared with the "legit" advise to wait a few more days.
Don't waste to much time with PayPal. Do a chargeback immediately it's very fast and it will go straight to his PayPal account. If you do it the PayPal way he will do more scamming into putting fake tracking or fake nature of the transaction. If you do chargeback he won't be able to do anything of that and his account will get a negative balance and eventually PayPal will contact the police.
More info @ Funds Availability | PayPal UK but it's probably too late now. If any if you initiated a case before those 2 weeks he might not even be able to withdraw anything (could be 1 week because it says it can go down to 1 week if it's in the same country)