PayPal and Ebay woes

rzlosty

Hello all,

Yesterday i purchased an IPhone from ebay for £320 quid. Instead of getting the nice blue pound sign in my purchased summery i instead got the picture of an hourglass (or eggtimer).

The seller has been really good and contacted me about it a few times, but he told me that PayPal has informed him that my account has been put under review and he should not post my item until its done.

I have called PayPal twice and spoke to various people and they tell me it shows that its completed (which it does on my PayPal "My Account" page) and verfiy that it was under review but should be done now or in the next few hours. However im still getting the hourglass on Ebay and it doesnt seem my seller can access my funds?

Any Ebay/PayPal experts able to tell me if the hourglass will go in the next few hours and change to the normal pound sign or is there something wrong?

Cheers.
Will

fwor

You'll probably get much better replies if you post this on the Ebay, Auctions, etc board than here.

Are you sure that it's your account, and not the seller's, that's been put under review?

The only time this has happened to me was as a seller, not as a buyer, and if anyone is likely to be scamming in that sort of deal it would typically be an iPhone seller, not the buyer.

Figment

Paypal review transactions in specific categories (mobile phones being one of them) as part of their fraud prevention procedures. The funds should be released shortly after Paypal complete their review process. It can take a few hours for the status on ebay to be updated.

rzlosty

Thanks for the replies guys!

Ive posted it in the other section no idea how i missed it!

Im pretty sure the guys not a scammer as hes sold 100+ things and got 100% feedback and the things hes sold have varied from £10-200 so its not just cheap trinkets.

Im almost certain its my account (ive not been notified by email ora nything) but when ive called paypal they told me its my funds that have been withheld.

Thanks again
Will