When you use the Gift option to send payment the seller gets 100% of the money with no fee,s deducted. Great for him but by using gift you have no paypal protection if things go wrong. If you dont get the item, its broken or not as described then you have lost your money as Gift means just that Gift.
You have not made a payment for goods so have lost all rights to any refunds.
You have to be a fool to send large amounts of money as gift and here,s ooples biggest fool for example
http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76209