PayPal UK Ltd

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-6014112 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

£100redress stated in the decision

Fri Feb 20deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Complaint handling, Service failure

In the Ombudsman’s words

PayPal’s level of customer service fell short of what Mr R ought reasonably to have expected to receiveComplaint handling

PayPal could have handled Mr R’s initial concerns with this issue in a timelier mannerService failure

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-6014112.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.