I'm basically just writing this now because I'm **bleep** furious, I'm just fed up with PayPal at this point. I got my business debit MasterCard because I recently started my own business and have been using my PayPal account regularly, and making various sales, a couple money transfers, etc. for about few months now, and all with relatively few issues. Until now. I've had a couple credit cards linked, but now it's just my banks debit card, and last week I finally got around to adding but my checking account, waited for the deposits and then "confirmed" account. I've been added that as the back up funding source to my PayPal debit card, and make sure I understood what they were saying about using the card, even with a zero balance in PayPal, because it will Automatically draw money from your back up source. I even googled this back up source funding to make sure I had understood it correctly and seemingly I had. Yesterday I made a large purchase using my PayPal balance and drained it down to the single Digits, I added some more from my checking account but of course that will take days and days, but I wasn't too worried about it . Then today had a bit of an unexpected urgent situation where I absolutely needed money and as it happens the only card I had as my PayPal debit my wife had the checking account debit but I figured it was no big deal since my back up source was all set. And needless to say all my transactions were declined. And it **bleep** me over pretty good. I was dumbfounded, why has this not work ? I set out searching figuring it was most likely something I did wrong, after hours finding nothing in the only explanations been well it could be this and could be that I was growing steadily more frustrated and upset, and then finally I found it deep inside the PayPal site is an FAQ and somewhere in it it states verbatim (but of course things don't mention this when you set up your back up source)- we're sorry your payment was declined for we can access funds from your confirm bank account you need to establish a history with PayPal and your bank a great way to establish and maintain history is to add funds to your PayPal balance from the bank account use linked to your PayPal account . What the **bleep** . What kind of nonsense policy is that ? They tell you you can do something and you do it and you're counting on it and then you find out that no that's not how it works in fact there's no real way to know exactly how it works it just works when somebody at PayPal decides that they feel comfortable letting you have a back up funding source, maybe that will happen next month or maybe next year or maybe you have to make 10,000 in sales before it happens who the **bleep** knows . But I don't I'm not sticking around to find out . I counted on PayPal working for me today because I made sure that I did everything according to their instructions but they seriously let me down and it **bleep** me over, with all the other glitches and crap that I've dealt with that I considered trivial until now I'm just done with PayPal there are other alternatives now that work much better. it's too bad that this company went in the **bleep** so completely. So anyway that's my two cents, good luck all and I'll see you in **bleep** PayPal .
