No one in their right mind will do that, especially the Apple store. You got skimmed, believe me – I was on the wrong side of this when I was younger… I’m not going to go into full details here, but I’m probably the only one here that has ever been interrogated by the Secret Service :ninja :ohnoes :rofl
If they were online purchases, I’d agree with you – but I’m sticking to my original opinion of what happened.
As far as PayPal goes, there’s no way for someone to take your credit card info from that.