[dodge]

I bought a print on ebay on Thursday morning and paid for it immediately via paypal. It shows as being a completed transaction on my paypal account but hasn't come out of my bank account. Is this normal? I can't remember it taking so long to come out before.

In addition, the seller has not answered two questions I have sent regarding the postage of the print. The seller only had 10 positive feedback but had been a member since July and got good feedback only last week.

Should I be worried?

[bigwilly]

it takes some time for paypal to take the money out of your account....


should be out monday or tuesday

[dodge]

Cool. Had a feeling that might be the case. A bit more worried about the lack of replies from the seller now mind....I hate ebay.

[Deleted]

that is a long time.. never had that myself, why not send paypal a mail?

[dodge]

Dec 14, 2008 16:42:14 GMT 1 jopkop said:

that is a long time.. never had that myself, why not send paypal a mail?

Already did mate, takes them ages to reply!

[neale]

you should be fine,it takes them longer to take money from bank accounts than from cards.

[Existencil]

Give them a call. They have good call centre staff. Still a shit company though. Number is in 'Contact Us' at the bottom of the summary screen.

[redfred]

I had the same, they took it out and put it back again, took about another 3 days for it to come out, in the meantime I contacted the seller thinking he had pulled out of the deal!

[dodge]

Dec 14, 2008 19:43:46 GMT 1 Existencil said:

Give them a call. They have good call centre staff. Still a s**t company though. Number is in 'Contact Us' at the bottom of the summary screen.

Didn't see that! Cheers, will give them a buzz ;D

[singerstu]

Good luck getting any sense out of anyone at paypal. When you get into that awful system say "Agent" and you might actually be able to speak to someone!

[Existencil]

The call centre guys are actually pretty good. It's unfortunate that they have to defend the poor planning of the US fat cats.

[dodge]

I tend to have nightmares with both paypal and ebay. Last month $400 disappeared from my paypal account to some online community in the US. I contacted paypal and they eventually sorted it out. Not once did they apologise!

Ebay seems to be just as bad. I have had problems with people pulling items, not paying etc. If you put paypal and ebay together it's a recipe for disaster!

[Existencil]

I have a final few transactions to sort out and I'm cancelling both my Ebay and Paypal accounts. It's in a shocking, shocking state.

[dodge]

Just got a reply from paypal. 7-9 working days it is going to take! It never used to take that long!

[origo]

I absolutely hate Paypal, sold a print to a buyer in US, the guy made a dispute and instantly turned it into a claim a week after buying it cause the tracking didn´t update.

I called the postoffice and they found the mistake and it instantly updated. In the meantime Paypal gave the buyer his money back, my account went in minus leaving me without print or money.

Excellent decision by Paypal...