I have collected about 275 hunting related books for my liabrary. A lot of them over the net, through auctions, or from used book dealers world wide. It took me three years to get the base, still adding some of the harder to find ones. I have first edition Roosebvelts, Hemmingways, etc.
Without paypal this would not have been possible.
I did get on a first name basis with one dealer and used my credit card direct with him. When his system crashed a lot of charges were put on my card. Eventually got that corrected.
But, I never had one problem with paypal.
Sorry to hear about your problem, but I don't think it's malicious. They have been extremely helpful with me.
David