Complaint Review: PayPal

I started the order process and had not problems until I got to the Paypal section. At the Paypal section I noticed that they had a old discontinued credit card on file. My phone number and email address was also incorrect. I tried to correct my email address first but no matter what I did, it kept taking me to a section asking for my bank account number. I went out and back in several times trying to update my email address but instead got the same results. So, I gave up and emailed  Paypal and the vendor telling them that I didn't think the purchase went through, but if it did, please cancel my order.

Anyway I though it was canceled. I believe the purchase was canceled for two good reasons. One, Paypal had a old credit card account I closed out years ago. Two, I sent emails to both Paypal and the vendor requesting the order be cancelled on the very day this nightmare started. The vendor acknowledged that he got that email and said Paypal refused to let him cancel the order. He sat on it for two weeks and then sent it on. Paypal never acknowledged that they received it.

A couple weeks later my credit card bill came in.  And looking at it, I was both surprised and livid to see that Paypal some how found my new credit card account and followed through with the purchase.

I called Paypal to find out how it happened only to get a rude and totally unresponsive person on the other end.
Another week or two goes by and  the package arrives. Since it was here, I decided to go ahead and keep it. It was a GPS receiver. I worked with it over the weekend trying to get it to work, but it was never able to pick up satellites.
I emailed the vendor and asked him to give me a refund and a postage paid return package so I can send it back. He refused.
So, that's where I'm at. I have a defective product and I'm not willing to pay postage to return it. The delta between return postage and refund is just too small to mess with.

All in all a total calamity with plenty of places to lay blame. Me for ordering something from Ebay. Paypal for their total lack of customer service. The vendor for sending it even though I asked him to cancel the order.
I've since ordered another one from (((competitor's name redacted))) and its been working perfect.

 sorry, allowing you to give a competitors name would instigate others to just file against their competition, to only come back later to suggest their company, ..plus, if you post a competitors name more than likely they will show up on search engines as a Rip-off! - - your comments on this policy are welcome. CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report. In this case we removed an alleged competitors name