[Implicated]

> That said, isn't the real story that domain escrow services exist for a reason?

No, story is that Paypal has been a haven for scammers and crooks since it started.

The lesson of the story is that they shouldn't be buying domains for any non-trivial amount of money without utilizing an escrow service.

[jonknee]

> No, story is that Paypal has been a haven for spammers and crooks since it started.

The story is that every financial exchange has been a haven for spammers and crooks since they started.

[happywolf]

That isn't fair to PayPal, it just processes transactions and in this case, the transaction was done _willingly_ by the account owners.