PayPal unclaimed money

snow

Yesterday I won an item and paid for it straight away. I've got a receipt for this payment. But few hours later I checked My Summary on ebay and it said that the paiment was pending. On my PayPal account it appears as "unclaimed", the reason for which is that by their definition "the recipient has not signed up a PayPal account yet or their email address has not been confirmed."But the seller has 200+ feedback and definitely used his PayPal account before...
Did somebody have the same situation? What should I do now?

frivolous_fay

Could it have gone through as an echeque? Has your credit card expired?

Cloysterpeteuk

I once bought something on ebay for £82 and instantly paid via paypal, the seller dispatched the item which I received promptly. A couple of weeks later I got an email saying my paypal had been unclaimed would I like to cancel it so I did, then of course within a day of two the buyer was !!!!!ing on at my asking why I hadn't paid so I sent them all the documentation proving I had paid and that they didn't bother to claim it. Anyway I saw that prices for the item I had bought were falling so I said I wouldn't be sending the payment again, instead I returned the item and that was that. A couple of days later I won an auction for an identical item for £45 so it worked out well for me.

tentickles666

thats a bit sneaky isnt it cloyster?

pinkgem

yeah that was a bit naughty imo. i know the seller was silly for not claiming the money though.

snow

frivolous_fay, no, my card is expired in April...

Avoriaz

Cloysterpeteuk wrote:

I once bought something on ebay for £82 and instantly paid via paypal, the seller dispatched the item which I received promptly. A couple of weeks later I got an email saying my paypal had been unclaimed would I like to cancel it so I did, then of course within a day of two the buyer was !!!!!ing on at my asking why I hadn't paid so I sent them all the documentation proving I had paid and that they didn't bother to claim it. Anyway I saw that prices for the item I had bought were falling so I said I wouldn't be sending the payment again, instead I returned the item and that was that. A couple of days later I won an auction for an identical item for £45 so it worked out well for me.

What a nasty and underhand thing to do. You should be ashamed, not proudly boasting on here. :mad: You are just as much a thief as any fraudster, mugger or burglar.

Please post your ebay id. I would like to bar from bidding on my auctions.

A question for the moderators. Is there anyway of banning members who post and boast about their immoral, underhand and possibly illegal activities on ebay.

Cloysterpeteuk

Avoriaz wrote:

What a nasty and underhand thing to do. You should be ashamed, not proudly boasting on here. :mad: You are just as much a thief as any fraudster, mugger or burglar.

Please post your ebay id. I would like to bar from bidding on my auctions.

A question for the moderators. Is there anyway of banning members who post and boast about their immoral, underhand and possibly illegal activities on ebay.

If I was just as much a thief as any fraudster, mugger or burglar than I wouldn't have bothered to send the seller their item back would I, unless there is some new kind of burglar who sends you your items back the next day via special delivery :rotfl:

Please don't say such ridiculous things, no-one could honestly compare what I did to mugging an old lady :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Oh and I have multiple ebay accounts - try cloysterpete and cloysterpeteuk, feel free to ban me from your auctions and i'll go away and hang my head in shame.....NOT!. Sorry guys I just can't get so worked up over what I did, yes it's sneaky and underhand i'm not trying to deny that nor am I saying what I did was honest, but you people have to accept it's not crime of the century and I won't be up on crimewatch alongwith the perpetrators of the other crimes you listed.

Under normal circumstances i'm an exemplary ebay buyer :A (check my buying and selling feedback on both accounts) with very few sneaky manouvers but this time saving £40 prompted me to take the aforementioned action. I'm not going to lose sleep over it, nor am I going to resort to a torrent of abuse which you would get from a lot of members for likening them to a mugger and burglar.

veruccasalt

Cloyster
I dont think you did anything underhand or sneaky. You say you paid stright away. When paypal contacted you to say the payment hadnt been claimed, what are you supposed to do, refuse to reclaim it so that Paypal get to keep it?!
If the buyer had claimed the money correctly in the first place, you wouldnt have had the opportunity to back out from the transaction anyway.

I'm with you, mate!

weaver

snow wrote:

Yesterday I won an item and paid for it straight away. I've got a receipt for this payment. But few hours later I checked My Summary on ebay and it said that the paiment was pending. On my PayPal account it appears as "unclaimed", the reason for which is that by their definition "the recipient has not signed up a PayPal account yet or their email address has not been confirmed."But the seller has 200+ feedback and definitely used his PayPal account before...
Did somebody have the same situation? What should I do know?

had the same thing a few times in the past 2 weeks - wonder if its anything to do with the new rules that they brought in in January - had email a while back re security checks.

One of my buyers says their account is fine and its because I havnt go my account set up to accept credit card payments only cleared paypal funds ? I have asked them they how I alter my account - anyone understand what they mean by this.

nightswimmer

veruccasalt wrote:

When paypal contacted you to say the payment hadnt been claimed, what are you supposed to do, refuse to reclaim it so that Paypal get to keep it?!

How about contacting the seller to see what the problem was? Sometimes things go wonky with PayPal accounts and can take some time to sort out and the seller might not have been able to claim the payment.

payPal would not have ended up with the money because any unclaimed payments are returned to the sender after 30 days.

Doing it the way Cloysterpeteuk did it, the seller is now out the cost of the listing fees, postage and packaging costs and not to mention the cost of their time.