I just called PayPal and they would not refund the money. I asked to escalate to Protection Service or Legal and they told me that I would have to send a subpoena to their legal department. In order for them to give me a refund, I have to contact my credit card to get them to refund the money.
Just escalate the claim. Keep trying. There are a lot of PayPal reps that do not know what they are doing. Keep trying until you find one that knows what to do. Say other people have filed claims against the company and were refunded through PayPal.
But most of all everyone needs to post their PayPal dispute numbers here so you can shares them and use them as evidence. Email PayPal with all the dispute numbers. Collectively it make PayPal listen.
There is a guy on the litecointalk forum that was able to get $150,000 reversed from another company that screwed up as bad as Alpha Tech did. Good check out the FT thread there.
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=7930.0+1
don't take no for an answer. send a subpeona? give me a break. transfer me and let me talk to someone.
others are right. if people can post their dispute numbers here for people to use as reference, it might help these others break through.
you are probably better off with your credit card company anyhow, so you might want to chase that down. you'll have to call and open a chargeback and likely send in supporting evidence. there are plenty of posts in this thread showing how to do that, and there are people that have websites up to help people, so you may have to go back through the last several pages to find some of that.
here's a basic outline that I posted:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=314402.msg8954774#msg8954774if you have ??'s and post them here maybe some people here can help you.
good luck.