We're sorry, but we can't send your payment right now. - POSSIBLE SOLUTION

stewcentral
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***Long story short: Make sure you're using a mobile phone number that's accepted by PayPal***

 

This infamous and completely ambiguous error message was very frustrating.

 

It appears they can be many causes of the error, and thus many solutions.

 

I speculate on the cause and solution of mine:

 

- I entered a non-Australian mobile phone number when creating an Australian PayPal account.

- Whenever I attempted to Send Money to another PayPal account, this error message would appear.

- On one such attempt, PayPal asked me to verify my identity by sending a code to my mobile phone number.

- It didn't accept the phone number as valid (as it wasn't an Australian phone number).

- After registering and using an Australian phone number, I was able to get past the verification step on continue on to Send Money successfully.

 

I hope this can be of use to others who are suffering from the same infuriating error message.

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RussellPulido
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Please help me I am buying something for a minecraft server and when I put in my credit card information etc it says "we're sorry we cannot send your payment right now.
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CraniumPVP
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I know. Me too.

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cjcrosby
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Same with me, I'm trying to buy something for an MC server and it just says, "We're sorry, but we can't send your payment right now"

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xTwistedMelonx
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Seriously? NO ANSWER SINCE 2014!!! FIX THIS GUYSSSSS! PEOPLE ARE DESPERATE FOR HELP HERE!

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alexegg
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Same here, using Paypal for years, balance on my account, but impossible to make a transfer to a friend and it has to be done today...

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vilax
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Same here i need to buy and i can't pls solve this 

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