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I was reading another thread where someone complained about a cancellation after the buyer initiated a PayPal chargeback. They received the following: 

"The order that you contacted us about xyz was canceled because the buyer opened a chargeback on the order with their payment provider. Fiverr cannot prevent this action and we did not cancel the order from our side."

I asked a few years ago, and no one could explain why someone can order $1000 of services from Fiverr and then initiate a chargeback which gives then a full refund, meanwhile this is not the case everywhere. For example, I cannot go to Amazon, order a laptop for $2,000, and immediately after delivery issue a chargeback, keeping both the laptop and the $2,000. 

How have other vendors structured their PayPal agreements to prevent this? There must be a refund upon return confirmation component. Which means that PayPal has safeguards that could be enacted to disallow chargebacks. For some reason that is either not applicable here, or no one cares enough to pursue it. Thoughts? 

PayPal Chargeback question.

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