I too have been facing this dilemma. I didn't know about "Pay After Delivery" until just abou three weeks ago. A guy I work with mentioned it to me when I said something about all the items he looks at on EBay. So he told me about PAD, said he had been using it for EVERY transaction one EBay and a few other places for quite a while. I looked into it, logged in to my PayPal account and signed up. (Keep this in mind, my account is 100% verified, and has been for a long time, I am also a 7 year member of PayPal) Now my friend who told me about the service and has been using it EVERY transaction without fail for quite some time is 60% verified and an 8 year member of PayPal.
The day I signed up I had trouble from the onset. I signed up and went to EBay only to find PAD would not work for me. I thought maybe I did something wrong. I linked and unlinked my accounts between EBay and PayPal (Nothing). I sent e-mails and made phone callsto PayPal only to get told things like "It doesn't work with every transaction", "Some sellers don't accept this type of payment", "It has something to do with our security model and we aren't privy to know how the security system works", "Delete your browsing history and cookies and try again in five minutes", and on and on. I was told these same things I couldn't say how many times between e-mail and phone calls.
My responses were always the same. "I work with a guy that is sitting right next to me that gets PAD to work EVERY time and has for a long while now", "I have sold things on EBay before and know people that still sell frequently, this is not something they set up and wouldn't you know it, one of the didn't even know this service existed for buyers", "If it is something in your security model, and you don't know what's going on with it, shoudln't you have said that in the first place? Do I need to talk to the security team?", "My computer is set to delete everything everytime I get off the internet, but ok I'll manually delete the whole one page -my home page- that is on my browser history currently"
After numerous e-mails and about 7 phone calls I finally spoke to a rep who asked me a series of multiple choice security questions. I think there were five questions total. At the end of the brain and memory racking quiz he told me to give it 10 minutes and try to purchase something. After about a half hour I had a chance to give it a shot and much to my surprise it worked. $244.95 P.A.D. due on the 3rd of February. We'll send you reminders close to that time. WOW IT WORKED, I was so excited I couldn't wait until that one was paid for and I could try again. I started looking into a few cheaper items I had wanted that wouldn't cause any financial strain only to find out my $244.95 P.A.D. was only a fleeting moment of relief. It no longer worked again. I couldn't buy a $12.00 item using P.A.D. Needless to say I again was not happy. I thought well maybe since it is my first P.A.D. and it was such a large amount maybe I'll wait for it to clear, then the security model will trust me more. I can wait two weeks, no big deal. So on February 3rd I crossed my fingers and tried for my $12.00 item which was now $13.85, but whatever, and guess what, NO PAY AFTER DELIVERY OPTION.
I immediately began calling again armed with my previous experience in getting it to work finally, but no one could manage to this day (Almost three weeks later) to get it to work even a second time.
If anyone has any luck I would love to hear how you managed it...
