I bought a Trail Camera on E-Bay that did not work...

I bought a Trail Camera on E-Bay that did not work.For me to know it took a few months. I contacted the seller and he was kind enough to refund my money. The only problem was I never received the money back from E-Bay $100.00 even after talking with them many times on the phone they stated that they sent to money to the credit card company (MasterCard) that issued the gift card..Tossed the card ..Never saw the money again...Three years later I purchase a E-Bay gift card, just $25.00 ...Should be no problem right? Wrong, because you need to have a Pay-Pal account and give them your credit card number just too use their gift cards.Yep! You see they don't tell you that when you buy the gift card! It's not on the back of the card either. So I just took the gift card back to Safeway where I bought it and guess what they won't give me a refund either. As far as I'm concerned E-Bay and Pay-Pal are dishonest companies that engage in deceptive business practices and I'll never trust them and never do business with them again deleting my account.