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This wouldn't work with PayPal USA. They have a hard rule that Seller protection applies only to tangible goods received from a PayPal-recognized common carrier with tracking to the buyer's Confirmed Address. This would be an automatic reversal.

Beyond that, the buyer could do a chargeback through his card issuer. If successful, PayPal takes back 103% of the payment.

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this was PayPal USA, i'm an American.

You lucked out... for now. Again, a CC chargeback will be hard to fight.

i find CC chargebacks (for us, they're via Stripe) more likely to win than PayPal tbh. and often w/ CC chargeback an accountant simply wasn't aware, mistakenly filed. PayPal, otoh, is often used by people with bad intentions on Day 0.

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