Never had payment put on hold before, but my most recent sale has been held. What has changed?
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I've been using PayPal for many years, and have sold things in many different niches - video game consoles, video games, trading cards, and off and on I have sold iPads.
My most recent transaction was an iPad Pro sale. This transaction's funds are on hold. I sold two iPads prior (six total in 2018). One came back as a fraudulent buyer - thank you Seller Protection for covering me!
I understand high risk transactions need more vetting - I have wanted a way to flag a transaction as potentially risky from my end for PayPal to look into it further for a while. But when I sold three iPads in a week, one smaller model to someone with 566 feedback (who I believe is legitimate), one larger model to a user with 7 feedback (who I do have questions about), and another of the larger model to someone with 380 feedback, why did the 380 feedback transaction get a hold, and not the 7 feedback one? Is this a beginning of a 35 day hold period (I see PayPal re-evaluates every 35 days) because I have sold a high number of iPads in a short time? Is this happening now because of a certain number of Seller Protection claims that were paid as people were using stolen credit cards/accounts to purchase items from me in the past? Or is this a new program rolling out and a combination of factors have me placed in a risk pool with that particular item now?
Am I going to have every electronic item I sell subject to a holding period, or is it going to be specific to the one item that was recently flagged?
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