[FattyBoomBatty]

Have you tried contacting paypal yet? If not, do it. You can't trust anything you read on the internet. What has been posted in this thread is amazing to me. It's kind of hypocritical to rally against things like taxes yet fully support myriad fees from sites like ebay and paypal. Doesn't make sense. Just trading a government for a corporation.

Do what you can, call paypal and talk to a person, and say they convinced you to use the gift feature, which you didn't understand quite why until you got the wrong part. They might be able to help you out. Good luck.