Was PayPal ever a good option in the early days of exchanges in order to buy bitcoin? If someone wanted to buy a ton of bitcoin in early 2010, would PayPal have been the way to go to buy more than 1000 usd worth of bitcoin? Why did PayPal get a bad reputation then?
Paypal got a bad reputation since they can revert transactions and I think at some point they favored the buyers/shoppers in the past. But yes you can buy BTC to users using paypal which paypal don't have the knowledge to the nature of the transaction.
There are still as far as I know users here buying and selling from user to user in the forum using paypal. Its a private transaction.