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Yup paypal has struck once again, here is what happend. In March 2007 I sold something for $200.00. The buyer lives in Australia and his paypal address wasconfirmed and he is verified, everything is on point. So lets fast forward 11 months to yesterday Feb 16 2008, I get a email from paypal saying they took the$200.00 out of my account because the buyer filed for unauthorized use of his credit card for the transaction we did 11 months ago! Now mind you, this guy hasleft me positive feedback, I have all emails from this guy, HIS PAYPAL ADDRESS IS CONFIRMED MEANING THE ADDRESS ON THE CARD MATCHES HIS ADDRESS so you mean totell me somebody used his card but had the item shipped to the card holder's address? So now I call paypal and the lady said just give us the trackingnumber from a year ago...which I do not have, he is out of country, he did not pay to have the item shipped international priority which would cost me a butload of extra money, and I actually do keep all my tracking numbers dating back from 3 years ago. So I ask the lady, basically if a buyer wants to get freestuff, all they have to do is just say the transaction was unauthorized a year ago even though I had the item shipped to my confirmed address? She was like ummumm umm, well...umm, this is not recommended..So basically make sure you keep ALL your tracking numbers because paypal will take money out of your accountyears later with NO QUESTION. I forwarded them all the emails from the buyer and even showed them the buyer left me a positive saying he got the item... So Igot the L