Damn paypal echeques!!!

golddustmedia

grade15 wrote:

seems that this person has patients anyway

Must be a doctor then?

tentickles666

i dont get echeques at all. my other half has a one acocunt and he happily registered with paypal using the maestro card they gave him but when he went to buy some tickets it sent a blimmin echeque that wouldnt clear till after the concert date! so i had to pay the seller then he refunded the echeque which luckily he was honest but from a buying point of view they are annoying too!

who even pays by cheque nowadays anyway? so why did they invent echeques? daft

ROBDOLPHIN66

I think that echeques are more widely used and (I think) clear quicker in the US and as we all know PayPal thinks that the whole world is the same as the US.

trencherpilot

Go into Paypal, click on profile, and in one of the columns click buyer payment options, in there about half way down is the tick box to not accept echeques. Tick it and stop receiving the bloody things.... It's what I've done!

Chalky87

Hintza wrote:

I have had a few and never had a problem with them (apart from the longgggg time to clear). If this was my dillema I think I would run the risk and post the item out the day before you go on holiday the Saturday.

Its a risk...and only you can decide if its worth taking. Post it second class as well or possibly Royal Mail parcels (no tracking though!!) that would take a few days to get there.

NEVER send out items before payment clears, sending your item out prior to actually receiving payment is a sure way to get scammed.

tentickles666

so does anyone know why echeques are being sent? after this topic i bought 3 things on ebay paid as normal and guess what! my account has sent blimmin echeques! i did not do anything different to normal so can anyone help me understand whats gone on? ty!

milliejon

I don't think you have an option of whether to pay with echeque. I think that if you fund your PayPal account with your bank account, and you don't have a balance in your PayPal account it will send an echeque.

Are you really able to block echeques? There is a rule about having to accept credit card payments if you have a personal PayPal account and state that you accept PayPal. Therefore, having to upgrade your account. Surely it's the same for echeques.

slowen

I received a pending and it has been pending since the start of last week and the expected date has now moved to next Wednesday, echeques are a total pain in the next.

Think I have only ever received 3 echeques since being on ebay for 2 years

soolin

milliejon wrote:

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Are you really able to block echeques? There is a rule about having to accept credit card payments if you have a personal PayPal account and state that you accept PayPal. Therefore, having to upgrade your account. Surely it's the same for echeques.

it is the complete opposite actually. Echeques can be accepted by a basic account as they are a pure bank transfer and not associated with a debit card. Therefore paypal will allow them to be blocked as a buyer has many other options for funding all of which (co incidentally) would cause the receiver to upgrade to a premier account.

SOo

tentickles666

think ive figured it out!

my registered card expires end of this month so paypal must have sent the echeque just incase? thing is i cant register my replacement card yet as it wont work till the 1st of next month! stupid blimmin paypal!