Paypal (payment unclaimed)

[Rollingstone206]

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[Sean1125]

PULL THE PAYMENT BACK AND CANCEL THE TRANSACTION.

If you need further details or WHY I say what I say I will PM you. If not I would HIGHLY suggest you take my word for it.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by Striker

FYI I believe you can cancel an unclaimed payment while it is pending. I know I would do this until I verified the E-mail was correct with the seller and gotten a reasonable explanation.

That is correct, you can cancel an unclaimed payment. I have had it before where someone changes their e-mail and forgot that the old e-mail still showed for their contact: because they were no longer using the e-mail, they didn't see the notice that the payment had been sent to them. Usually not with sellers that are very active, or if they are new to eBay, they may not even realize that Paypal is a required payment option for every listing nowadays and is active by default.

I have also, on 1 occasion, bought something from someone who I am fairly sure died between when the auction started and when it ended. But let's hope that isn't the case.

[PolarBear]

Cancel the unclaimed payment and contact the seller. It's probably not a big deal. He probably changed his email address and forgot to link it to his ebay account.

[Pat R]

Thanks for the help guys.

Sean, I sent the seller two messages and he got right back to me on both of
them he said that he is registered with paypal and ebay sent him a message saying that I initiated a transaction.

He had 33 sales in the last 5 months with 100% feedback and its only
a $27 transaction do you still think I should cancel right away? (I sent paypal
an email and wanted to wait to here back from them)