Cloves,

If you have a PayPal account and made a payment from your PayPal account, then any credit would go to your PayPal account.

You can do a number of things. You can leave the funds there, and use them towards the next purchase you make from your PayPal account. Or you can withdraw those funds from your PayPal account either by requesting a check from PayPal or having PayPal deposit the money direct into your bank account.

On the other hand, if you made the purchase to a vendor that uses PayPal to accept on-line credit card payments, but do not actually have a PayPal account or did not use your PayPal account to make payment, but rather used your credit card directly, my understanding is that any refund would be applied back onto whatever credit card you used.

Aye,
Matt