So I'm planning a university reunion weekend in Montreal and I've found a sick place to rent, works out to $1110 for the weekend and the guy wants a $555 deposit... over Interac email money transfer. I told him I want to do it via credit card, but then he says PayPal (who the fuck uses paypal for this type of shit??!) would ding him pretty big.
If I email him the money and he ends up being a scammer, am I fucked? Or is there some type of recourse through the banks that would get me my money back?
Here's the site with the rental (it has links to his site, which has other rentals as well):
http://www.loftsinmontreal.com/Mezza...oft_Suite.html
I found him on vacationrentals.com and other rental sites, he seems legit... what do you guys think?