Does PayPal protect you from purchases other than eBay?

[crispygoat]

Say I wanted to buy an item somewhere else than ebay, for example on a forum, pay with PayPal and never receive the item, will PayPal protect me or let me on my own?

thanks

[Thornton Davis]

If you've used their service (and paid for it) they will protect you for up to 45 days from the date payment was made.

I recently experienced this from the sellers end. PayPal protected the buyer when the item hadn't arrived as quickly as it was suppose to have. They locked my money until the buyer released the dispute that he had filed with them.

TD