is this a paypal scam and can i do anything about it
i sold my first thing on a new paypal account. they're holding the money until 21 days after the customer recieves the item. but it says he can push a button to release the funds as soon as he gets the package. is that wrong? because i have been trying to tell him for 10 days but he says he has money on hold too and his customers can't release his funds either? sounds a bit fishy.
a big problem is that the tracking number doesn't have seemed to link to their system. my customer said he did not get en email from paypal with the tracking number so i honestly could be getting messed around by paypal.
does anyone know anything i can do. i stopped using paypal 15 years ago because they would screw up and then not have a phone number or email to even let you state your case, and i still can't find a phone number or email.
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June 14, 2020, 03:27 AM
Graham
I would say what you've had is absolute rubbish. I've never had to release funds. The cash is taken out of a bank account. Your customer would only see tracking information if you've put it on the item and the link would be in their "My eBay" part of their eBay account.
June 14, 2020, 03:54 AM
handicapabletrader
so that's your your situation. i'm asking for help from people that have had problems with paypal. it was understandable when i was told my money would be held by paypal for 21 days because it was my first transaction. customer protection and all that is a good thing. i'm just annoyed that when you follow the rabbit hole of automated answers in the help pages. it says that i can either wait 21 days after it's been recieved or have the buyer select to unhold the funds when they recieve the packaging. butwhen i added tracking number paypal said "your customer should recieve an email with updated tracking information. it wasn't an ebay sale. it was on gumtree. so the only evidence of tracking is the number atatched to the paypal transaction. and when i click on that it always takes me to an error page and i don't know why but am afraid that there is no evidence of delivery and i'm waiting for 21 days from when the customer says it's arrived and it seems like he is not going to do that.
so if anyone knows how to make this right or has had similar problems that do resolve themselves then i would love to hear. thanks
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June 14, 2020, 06:49 AM
hammer
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Originally posted by handicapabletrader: so that's your your situation. i'm asking for help from people that have had problems with paypal. it was understandable when i was told my money would be held by paypal for 21 days because it was my first transaction. customer protection and all that is a good thing. i'm just annoyed that when you follow the rabbit hole of automated answers in the help pages. it says that i can either wait 21 days after it's been recieved or have the buyer select to unhold the funds when they recieve the packaging. butwhen i added tracking number paypal said "your customer should recieve an email with updated tracking information. it wasn't an ebay sale. it was on gumtree. so the only evidence of tracking is the number atatched to the paypal transaction. and when i click on that it always takes me to an error page and i don't know why but am afraid that there is no evidence of delivery and i'm waiting for 21 days from when the customer says it's arrived and it seems like he is not going to do that.
so if anyone knows how to make this right or has had similar problems that do resolve themselves then i would love to hear. thanks
You seem very aggressive. Perhaps it's a problem with gumtree sales, having never purchased or sold through gumtree (as most people on here use ebay - the assumption would be that you were selling on ebay). Had you said gumtree you wouldn't have got an ebay answer.This message has been edited. Last edited by: hammer,
June 14, 2020, 07:29 AM
Raj
If Paypal hang to payments for some reason, it should be mentioned somewhere on its FAQ or Terms & Conditions pages.
June 14, 2020, 11:40 AM
handicapabletrader
yeah it does. it tells me to ask the buyer to click a button that says release funds
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June 14, 2020, 11:48 AM
handicapabletrader
and gumtree has been great for 10 years for me. i like person to person sales but over covid have accepted bank transfer and now had to open a paypal account to sell some shoes and this is my 1st bad experience with gumtree
also i have a fair bit of prefrontal lobe injury so don't have much of a filter for bad decisions, including whati type, so i'm sorry if i sound angry. i try to read posts after i right them. and i should probably say my best friend broke my car today while borrowing it just as i was about to sell it and tried to convince me to let him scrap it for quick disposal and got real angry when i said no,i need to sell my car. i put it on gumtree and 3 minutes later had 7 buyers and went to pick up the car and the engine was basically blown up and i ended up losing my best friend over how harsh i treated him for trying to screw me financially over a mistake he hadnt admitted to, not that you want friends like those...ah so yeah i've had a pretty angry day,and again apologize for letting those vibes filter through here unneccesarily.
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June 14, 2020, 09:26 PM
mykdude
And to think this whole on line auction thing started with you won the bid, sent money through the mail and then you prayed (or slaughtered a living chicken over your 56k modem) in hopes you got your item.
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June 15, 2020, 04:51 AM
handicapabletrader
no, this actually started on forum "raffle" threads. i was selling books on amazon when i was still in high school but before amazon i was compiling collections of cards and comics and customer lists (thinking ahead )on forums
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June 15, 2020, 04:52 AM
handicapabletrader
forums are friggin great for getting bunches of like minded people together
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June 25, 2020, 02:44 AM
handicapabletrader
wohoo only 44 days and paypal finally cleared my money. i had spent money out of the account putting it in negative less than 24 hours before they cleared it. so if you ever have this same problem i'd say after the 21days they tell you that you have to wait ,you should just spend the money and let them catch up.
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June 25, 2020, 08:53 AM
ifish73
Paypal has been doing this with some new accounts due to the influx of online fraud. People were making a new paypal/ebay account, selling a bunch of stuff, collect the money and then transfer it out and close the associated bank account leaving paypal and ebay in the negative. This way it helps them weed out some of the fraud.
Like mykdude said back in the day we would send cash or money order through the mail without thinking twice. Don't think I ever had a problem not getting my item that way.
June 26, 2020, 04:09 PM
David R
I remember the days, not too long ago, when you won an ebay auction, and certain sellers would accept postal money orders, only.
I distinctly recall one of the 3 or 4 bad experiences I had with ebay over the past 22 years involved mailing a $ 6.00 money order to Florida for a Simpsons SkyBox promo, and never receiving it...
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Originally posted by mykdude: And to think this whole on line auction thing started with you won the bid, sent money through the mail and then you prayed (or slaughtered a living chicken over your 56k modem) in hopes you got your item.
June 27, 2020, 09:57 AM
allender
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Originally posted by David R: I remember the days, not too long ago, when you won an ebay auction, and certain sellers would accept postal money orders, only.
Darn it, we old folks are starting to go way back to experience our youth. Even Wolfie may have been in diapers "not too long ago." The last auction I paid with a money order was in March 2008. I knew the staff at the P.O. quite well back then ... but I didn't have to trudge through the snow, uphill both ways.
And mkdude, those 56k modems weren't allowed to get above 53.3k under FCC rules. But they were a great upgrade over 14.4k. And not too long ago, we used slower modems to connect to the Bulletin Board Systems, and we had several days' lag on forums because the local hub compressed messages, sent them to a regional hub at night when phone rates were low; the regional eventually transferred them to a national or international system. And I remember restoring a minicomputer's memory long-distance at 3600 baud. Nowadays my phone could make it seconds, not half a day.
June 27, 2020, 10:15 AM
wolfie
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Originally posted by allender:
Even Wolfie may have been in diapers "not too long ago."
Last week actually but that's another story for another day.
I don't know if i ever sent a money order. I have certainly paid for cards with cash, stamps, cheque, International Responce Coupon, Dollars all sent through the post with no problems.
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June 27, 2020, 10:34 AM
Raven
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I still send money orders. I also pay cash at the grocery checkout. When they stop printing dollar bills, I'll convert. If I'm still here.
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I knew the staff at the P.O. quite well back then ... but I didn't have to trudge through the snow, uphill both ways.
