Paypal seling advice

[JP]

Funnily enough they put a hold on this guys payment too for upto 24hrs and said not to release any goods until they said it was OK too, I double checked this whilst they were with me on the phone and showed them my computer screen and were happy to return once the transaction completed. Sure enough 24hrs later paypal turned round and said the money is yours and you are free to release any goods. I checked it was in my account and transferred it to my bank. Once the transfer went from pending to completed I released the goods. Coupled with a signature of the buyer saying that everything was received in A1 condition on the date in question just as an incase back up.

[driftin jo]

I just don't get this , if someone is sending you money as a gift why does paypal think there are goods involved ?
Surely the fact that it is a gift infers that there is no goods / services to receive . ?

I can't see why paypal would care if someone sends as a gift as there is nothing to argue about so no intervention is needed as it is a gift .
Maybe it is on hold in case the sender has sent money to the wrong recipient or wrong amount or something ?

[Acidburn]

I can't see why paypal would care if someone sends as a gift as there is nothing to argue about so no intervention is needed as it is a gift .
Maybe it is on hold in case the sender has sent money to the wrong recipient or wrong amount or something ?

Only thing i've ever had an issue is I got an email about a lot of money I had sent to me a while ago and they thought I was doing money laundering so wanted to check.

Ducky - I hope you get it sorted out

[JP]

When I spoke to them on the phone I was very vague saying my mate that is stood next to me has just send me some money and although completed from his account saying on hold/pending on mine. They turned round and said they had to look at the funding in his account to see if all the funding sources were going to clear.
Apparently the guy has not registered a bank account with them so paypal has no way of taking money of him if they give me money that is not going to clear 100% in his. So they put the transaction on hold until they knew the funds were 100%.

They're literature states goods pretty much in every communication which I think is down to it being a general mass email that is adjusted for each individual by filling in the empty boxs so to say.

[Le S2 Audi]

Funnily enough they put a hold on this guys payment too for upto 24hrs and said not to release any goods until they said it was OK too, I double checked this whilst they were with me on the phone and showed them my computer screen and were happy to return once the transaction completed. Sure enough 24hrs later paypal turned round and said the money is yours and you are free to release any goods. I checked it was in my account and transferred it to my bank. Once the transfer went from pending to completed I released the goods. Coupled with a signature of the buyer saying that everything was received in A1 condition on the date in question just as an incase back up.

The reason this would happen (I think) is due to the fact that your customer has used a Bank account or Credit Card to transfer all or part of the amount that he is sending as a gift...

I bought my Red Golf £1500 by paypal as a gift and the transfer was done in under 5 minutes..

Seems that it has worked out well in the end!

[driftin jo]

Only thing i've ever had an issue is I got an email about a lot of money I had sent to me a while ago and they thought I was doing money laundering so wanted to check.

Ducky - I hope you get it sorted out

Yes a hadn't thought of that , I once had the bank question me over an international money transfer when I had shipped a load of Audi stuff to Finland