Had the same experience with eBay myself earlier this year. Stopped the transaction on a green Cobb! Apparently I hit the 10,000 barrier and PayPal "required" I verify my checking account. What made this worse was my choice of banks, a small credit union in southern california who for some electronic reason could not seem to handle the verification process. End result: the ABA routing the credit union gave me was incorrect! Gawd I hate banks.
I use Paypal to transact with sellers of Flyrod components so I was motivated to get this worked out. Took over a week. But I got the Cobb
During this period I ran into a few sellers who insisted on Paypal, but I also found as many who were flexible, including members of this board. Can't say enough good things about the people I've done business with on Net54 since joining a few months back.
(Newbie) Keith