Well true, a good thing is to pay 50% upfront (or less) and come to an agreement that you will not pay full unless you are fully satisfied with your product anyways. This is how people can easily get ripped off when buying things, and I understand that, because the deals sound so great.

But remember that saying "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" especially, as you mention, if there is no guarantee. But these days, I think guarantee's are leading in the IM world, as fewer people are choosing products that DO NOT have a guarantee.

These day and age, I think anyone who doesn't have it, is behind, and is likely a real scammer- as I haven't really seen anyone who doesn't have some sort of guarantee like that. Even clickbank requires that you follow their return policy (thus creating a guarantee to refund their money), and many other popular affiliate websites have it as well.

Thus, one would just have to automatically think that if a person didn't have a guarantee, that they are likely in it to screw a few people over. but it seems you have learned from your mistakes.

I myself have yet to file anything with paypal like that, and i have heard it's a difficult process? Kindof shady, have you reported them to websites like those scam ones or anything? To warn people?

You could also consisder doing that.

Process is simple. open a dispute, write a note to the seller and it will go to paypal as well. I have mentioned the website in question. This is the first case of unhappiness where I paid by PayPal. In other cases I used direct credit card transactions so can't do much. But one thing good about opening a dispute with paypal is that it will force seller to respond quickly whereas seller has not responded to my PM and mail in few days due to internet connection problem. And everything is recorded officially in PayPal records.

Rajesh