Oh shoot that sucks you can buy the cards right off ebay and then all you need to do is get the persons paypal email and it will link right to there account.
I was reading your comments and oh man that sucks. But that lady should have eaten the $20 not you. If her PayPal didn't work then that should have been her problem not yours. I get eBay codes all the time and most sellers have a little disclaimer that says. At the end of the auction I will need your email address that is linked to your PayPal and then everyone is covered cuz you send it directly to their PayPal and they get an email notification that someone just sent them an eBay code. I do not like getting codes sent via Listia email. 90% of the time they never work. It's really really irritating. But if you decide to do eBay it really shouldn't be a problem for you. That one experience was bad but all you had to do was call PayPal & they would have reversed the charges. Cuz that happened to me before too. Easily fixed. :-)