Paypal- A/c check

[ova50]

If you have a Paypal A/c and have used it on the afternoon of Monday the 28th and early Tuesday morn, it might be worth while to check your accounts.

I purchase an item about 7pm monday night via Paypal. I received a email from the company I was dealing with late monday night explaining that he had received 6 payments from me, and all at different times. He had started to credit the extra 5 back to me and said that he had heaps of people making multiple payments to him.
I immediately checked my paypal a/c again, and sure enough payments were being made from about the time I made my first payment and continued till about 10.30pm.

I sent two emails to paypal, (relpies were quite vague), and also spoke with them this morning by phone.
They have confirmed that thousands of people have been charged over and over and it had happened during a "system upgrade" (if one can believe that).

As far as any additional bank charges, if incurred, Paypal claimed they would cover them. ( for me, the company I was dealing with quickly realised there was a problem and was crediting them as they kept coming)

I delayed posting this until I had as many facts as possible., thus the post.