PayPal - We’re sorry you were charged twice.

Dear ____,

Some of our PayPal customers in Australia have experienced duplicate transactions through their PayPal account. Unfortunately, you were one of them.

We’re aware this may have caused you some inconvenience or difficulties and would like to apologise.

We processed 100% of the refunds yesterday and it is common practice for banking institutions to apply this to individual customer accounts within 24 hours. The majority of impacted customers will receive the reimbursement into their bank account today.

If you haven’t received a refund yet you should see the money appear in your bank account shortly. If you are concerned and need any further assistance, including reimbursement of any fees incurred as a result of the issue, please contact us on 1800 073 263 or use the contact link on any www.paypal.com.au page. We’re aware that some customers have experienced extended delays when trying to call, but these are now under control and we’re here to help.

We’ve always prided ourselves on our safety, security and trustworthiness and our team is doing extra checks and balances to help make sure this doesn’t happen again. Again, we apologise for any inconvenience or difficulties this may have caused you.

Did anyone else get emailed this? I've gone through the transaction history and I can't find any duplicate charges.

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  • No email, but had a duplicate charge yesterday, which was reversed.

    It was reversed within 24 hours.

    • Was it a large amount?

      • Less than $10.

  • I received this email a couple of hours ago as well.

  • Got the email but don't have any duplicates either… Weird

  • Did you check your bank statement, or just the transactions that PayPal list on their web site?

    • Just checked my bank account, had a reversal (I think). Not sure if it's actually a reversal or another charge. Can't find it anywhere in my transaction history in PayPal though.

      Direct Credit 997XXX PAYPAL AUSTRALIA
      DE REV 20XX 279XXX

  • Happened to me when i bought my G3 using the ebay code a couple days ago, took 2 lots of $391.5. Was pretty quickly refunded tho.

    • How did you see if you were double charged? Through PayPal or your bank?

      • Had the same thing as NutnButaPnut, G3 as well. Paypal showed only one transaction. Ebay Seller mentioned only one transaction. In my bank account there was two instances of being charged by paypal.

  • Yeah it only is listed on my bank statements, not in PayPal.

    Mine was $10.50 which was a donation to a charity via the everyday hero website.

  • 500 worth of extra charges, thank goodness they are refunding it!

  • -1

    I was somehow charged twice for an ebay item a couple of months ago and they refused to refund it. Had to do credit card chargeback.
    Glad to see they actually owned up for once.

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