PayPal hold on funds?

[pepis]

Originally Posted by kmac32

Question for th boards. Has anyone every had a hold placed on funds 3 weeks after a buyer has paid with PayPal. Got a notice this morning from PayPal for an auction that had ended January 14 and the seller had paid on January 21. We contacted PayPal and the representative really could not explain what was going on. I would assume that if there were an issue with the cards bought that we would have seen something through eBay. There is no case opened and no correspondence from the buyer. The buyer is new to eBay and has been buying post war cards like crazy. Mine are the only prewar cards he has bought. They were definite beaters and the whole transaction was $11.00. Kind of weird.

Sounds like the buyer didn't receive the item and notified P-Pal, now you have a few days to provide electronic prove of shipping DC if you cant
he'll probably escalate the issue to a claim and get his $$ back

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by pepis

Sounds like the buyer didn't receive the item and notified P-Pal, now you have a few days to provide electronic prove of shipping DC if you cant
he'll probably escalate the issue to a claim and get his $$ back

The sad thing is that we verified address and sent day after he paid if that is what is going on. He also waited a week to pay for the items. What ever happened to communication between a buyer and seller? If I have an issue with a seller, I email. We did send an email to the buyer to see if they could give some light to the subject. Haven't heard anything yet.

[Ronnie73]

I used to make all my purchases with a postal money order because I didn't have a Paypal account. Well after missing out on some good auctions I opened a Paypal account. Paypal would hold the money for about a week before transfering it when doing an e-check. That problem was finally fixed after I added a debit card to my Paypal account and now its an instant transfer. Maybe thats why your money is being held up.

Edited to add: The seller sent the card out right away to me because the funds showed in their account but they didn't know they couldn't access them. It was very stressful for the seller. The card was a T206 Hal Chase Blue Portrait Sovereign 460 SGC 60 for a Buy It Now of $245. It was listed for less than 5 minutes when I bought it. We had multiple friendly emails each day until the funds were accessable. We both left positive feedback.

[kmac32]

For any interested, the buyers eBay name is maedad7. He still hasn't responded to our earlier email and not sure whether PayPal is playing games or if the buyer is playing games. He has been buying 50's and 60's stuff like mad and a bunch of newer basketball stuff. Just a FYI.

[sdkammeyer]

I had one of these strange holds placed a few weeks back. if anybody really wants to know the buyers ID is templarfsgt

Anyways, he bought a $34 card off me and told me his payment was going to be held. No big deal .... usually a 5-7 day thing until the payment clears his bank. It turned into a 10 day thing and i contacted the buyer and he replied. after 20 days i contacted the buyer and he replied. after 24 days the "payment pending" icon disappeared. I contacted the buyer 3 times over the next 3 days and heard nothing back ..... so i filed the non-payment bullcrap.

still never heard anything from him or got a payment.

[digdugdig]

Originally Posted by kmac32

For any interested, the buyers eBay name is maedad7. He still hasn't responded to our earlier email and not sure whether PayPal is playing games or if the buyer is playing games. He has been buying 50's and 60's stuff like mad and a bunch of newer basketball stuff. Just a FYI.

maedad7...just recently became my 1st ebay blocked bidder. No pay, no contact. Had over 100 feedback rating but also the "new member" icon next to his name.

[flavius]

Paypal will ALWAYS hold your ebay sales funds if you don't meet their criteria, which is at least 100 feedback and a couple of other things. I'd assume baseball cards are in a low risk category, which is a good thing for getting your funds quicker. It's certainly a pain in the wazoo for newer ebay sellers though.

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by flavius

Paypal will ALWAYS hold your ebay sales funds if you don't meet their criteria, which is at least 100 feedback and a couple of other things. I'd assume baseball cards are in a low risk category, which is a good thing for getting your funds quicker. It's certainly a pain in the wazoo for newer ebay sellers though.

My feedback is 1142 so definitely not a reason to hold funds. And please don't insult Wazoo, he's a nice kid. LOL

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by digdugdig

maedad7...just recently became my 1st ebay blocked bidder. No pay, no contact. Had over 100 feedback rating but also the "new member" icon next to his name.

Definitely slow pay in our case and looks like he likes to play games given the current story. Once this is resolved, he will be blocked also.