Did Paypal change rules again?

[Gary Allan]

Ebay must be filled with people who are spending your money while at some south Pacific resort. No one is ever really there. Everyone is virtually there.

 

[asiancivicmaniac]

I won 2 wheels off ebay last week and paid for them with Paypal the next day. The seller sends me a message 4 days later telling me he didn't get the payment yet. I checked my Paypal account and my card was charged but the transaction to the seller says 'unclaimed'. I wonder if this rule is keeping the seller from getting the money. Of course I've sent three messages to the seller since he said he has not received payment and I haven't heard anything back from him. Hopefully he hasn't backed out and I don't have to go through the trouble of reversing the transaction.

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: asiancivicmaniac
The seller sends me a message 4 days later telling me he didn't get the payment yet. I checked my Paypal account and my card was charged but the transaction to the seller says 'unclaimed'.


The vendor's email address to which you sent the money may not be registered as a (one of his) PayPal email addresses. This could be an oversight on the vendor's part. He accidentally may have given you a wrong email address, or it could be a fraud attempt (So he can claim "The buyer never paid!"). You should cancel the transaction and withdraw the payment, which you can do until he claims the payment. Then ask him for the proper email address, which is registered with PayPal and make a new payment. Or just withdraw the payment and shop elsewhere.

 

[asiancivicmaniac]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
Originally Posted By: asiancivicmaniac
The seller sends me a message 4 days later telling me he didn't get the payment yet. I checked my Paypal account and my card was charged but the transaction to the seller says 'unclaimed'.


The vendor's email address to which you sent the money may not be registered as a (one of his) PayPal email addresses. This could be an oversight on the vendor's part. He accidentally may have given you a wrong email address, or it could be a fraud attempt (So he can claim "The buyer never paid!"). You should cancel the transaction and withdraw the payment, which you can do until he claims the payment. Then ask him for the proper email address, which is registered with PayPal and make a new payment. Or just withdraw the payment and shop elsewhere.






I have thought about canceling the payment but I was thinking of giving the seller a few more days time. The wheels are the only item he has put up for sale and he has had perfect feedback on the other items he has bought. I think like you said he might have used a Paypal account he has forgotten or he doesn't know how to receive the payment. I'm going to send him another message tomorrow and tell him if he doesn't respond that I will cancel the payment Monday.

 

[moribundman]

Sure, if he has perfect feedback he's not likely trying to pull a fast one.