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Yeah, recently I bought a knife from bladehq because I was worried about getting a knockoff off Amazon.

Two weeks later I got an email from bladehq that they had been exploited and my credit card was now known to hackers.

So, fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t.



I've been using the pay with PayPal option whenever a site has it for this reason.


PayPal will not help you if you inadvertently buy a scam product.

I bought a TV light strip doodad for $20. What arrived was an empty box. It shipped from the US, but they wanted me to ship it back to China. PayPal could not have cared less. They agreed I needed to send it back to China. I escalated very far up their chain. Nothing.

Apparently this is a common scam and PayPal does zero to help.


I use my credit card with PayPal purchases, so I think a chargeback would cover that.


Paypal, Privacy.com, and Blur can solve that problem. I'm sure there are others.


That's like getting food poisoning when you go out to eat, so you just assume all restaurants will give you food poisoning.


Not even food poisoning, more like your car for broken into, but nothing was stolen. The meal was fantastic, however.




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