What we have here is a Catch-22. Logic says that Monto P2 could potentially lose $780 if he drops his claim for it and gets nothing. that is.... if JFORNEY36 does not make good on his word to refund him the $780 money through Paypal. If that were to happen, JFORNEY36 would be in a world of Red here on AZBilliards and no one would likely do business with him again in the foreseeable future. On the other hand, there is a possibility that JFORNEY would make good on his word and everything could work it's way out and everybody would be happy and all this would be over. There also is the logical outcome that if Monto P2 does not drop his claim, he will not see any money as JFORNEY will be in a position to leave the Paypal account in limbo unless Paypal does some creative accounting and finds the money elsewhere to pay him, which isn't likely without a court order allowing them access to another of JFORNEY's bank accounts. The cost in lawyer fees alone would well exceed the claim and coming from overseas would be a "Non-event". JFORNEY did a bad thing when he moved the funds for the 2 deposits from his Paypal, but that is over and done with. As I see it, Monto doesn't have much leverage unless he has some mafia type here in the states to do his bidding. The courts and legal community consider this civil, not criminal, since JFORNEY admits he owes the money and states he will re-pay it. Lastly, the scenario where Monto refuses to remove the claim, he is pretty much guaranteed not to recover anything monetarily, and the other scenario, where he releases the claim, the probability of being refunded through Paypal goes up exponentially. Remember zero chance to any possible chance is considered exponential. I think, I would go with the exponential chance, because the one with zero chance is exactly that. Using this logic, you have nothing to lose by dropping the claim since you have nothing to gain if you don't. And JFORNEY should consider apologizing for pulling both funds out of Paypal. That was wrong and you know it. Maybe you were hedging against a possible paypal claim, but it still was not the ethical thing to do. Paypal makes people do strange things... like pull money back to your bank account as soon as it is received knowing it takes 3-4 days to get deposited sometimes.
Bottom line. Monto... You can't lose anything you don't already have or are not going to get with your current actions. So remove the claim, and document it. Give it a few days because I know for a fact Paypal works in mysterious ways and takes their sweet ass time moving money when it is moving away from Paypal instead iof into it. JFORNEY, document and refund him the money as soon as you can, staying in communication with each other to get this resolved. This can be resolved. You just both need take care of business.
