Help with an invoice Please , Thanks !

[Keerthan26]

Hi guys , so a customer i know wants to buy a good from me privately. Iam selling him some games and he is paying me $168. He sent it as a gift/invoice. I just recieved a email saying I have been paid 168 and then it says View and pay Invoice. Does this mean im paying him 168 ? or is he paying me 168 ? And also i clicked it and it says amount due 0 but it said -$168 for amount paid. 

Subtotal $168.00 Total $168.00 Amount Paid -$168.00 Amount Due

$0.00 USD

Please help me if you know . Thanks 🙂

Subtotal $168.00 Total $168.00 Amount Paid -$168.00 Amount Due $0.00 USD

Below is what it says when i clicked view and pay .

Sub total = $168

Total = $168

Amount Paid = -$168

Amount due = $0.00 USD

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@Keerthan26

BE CAREFUL AND READ THIS FIRST >>>

If it was marked as an invoice then its probably a scam doing the rounds as its been sent by a buyer and altered to look as though he has paid you.

Signs its a scam are >>>

its an invoice BUT sellers send invoices not buyers

marked as paid

marked as gift

says payment won't show in your balance for eg 24 hours

can't be chargedback.

Paypal NEVER tell you to send anything until the funds are showing in your paypal account balance.

Paypal payments are more or less instant.

Paypal will never tell you that a payment can't be subject to a chargeback if thats what scammers are still putting on invoices.

[Keerthan26]

Thank you for ur fast reply . Yes it was marked as a gift. And i have told the buyer i would not sell the item untill i have recieved my payment and i have accepted it. Also so does this invoice means i paid him $168 from my account because i clicked on my email and clicked view and pay on the email ?. 

Thanks 🙂

[DPCreations]

A buyer NEVER sends an invoice for a purchase.  It is the seller who sends the invoice.  Any money received will show in selller's PayPal acocunt.  If no record of receiving money, then no money was received.  It's that simple.

[Keerthan26]

alright i understand that now. Thanks but do you have any idea if i payed him ? as it says $-168 in that email . does that mean i paid him 168 ? 

[kernowlass]

@Keerthan26

There are 2 of us replying on this thread so it can get a bit confusing.

If you clicked pay then you may well have paid that money, go to your transaction history and see if it shows up as a paid transaction.

[Keerthan26]

I clicked view and pay from the email and nothing shows up on my transaction history and its been around 2hours already. Does that mean im safe and i do not have to worry about anything ? 

[kernowlass]

@Keerthan26

Should be ok, if you had paid you would have received an email from paypal to say that you had made a payment.

[Keerthan26]

Okay good, im so much better now 🙂 Thank you so much for the help , both of you guys who replied. Thank you so much 😄 Have a great day