An unknown service error occurred.

[eliotn]

Hi,

I'm trying to add my bank account and I get this:

"An unknown service error occurred."

The bank account is not linked with any other paypal account.

Thanks

Jake

[Instinct]

yea i am too.

[tommystrokes]

Stuck with the same annoying problem and the annoying PayPal customer support system.

Read all the help on the website, Googled for the information and found this, moved forward with emailing PayPal only to get an automated response saying "Have you read the help... [and if you haven't, here, I pased it in this email for you] ... Please reply to this email if you still need help and we'll try to get back with you within 24 hours, 48 at the most."

Well, that was 4 days ago, still waiting on my response as to what's up with this great system while my money is stuck in PayPal purgatory.

[Byggun]

I was getting the same error. Turns out U had the account added to another Paypal account. I called customer service and they identified that, and switched it to my new Paypal account. Took about 20 min on the phone.

[Pieisyummy]

I know the solution!

Type in ALL the numbers.

Type what you typed originally, then look at a deposit ticket or any kind of slip that shows your bank number and on the way right, you will see a few numbers that are far apart from the numbers you typed. Include those numbers in the Bank account number line along with the original numbers you wrote before. Press enter and it should work.

[Htanner2281]

Adding the 3 numbers on the deposit slip after the account number worked!!!

[slongtin]

Agreed. My account is with Capital One 360 (formerly ING). I looked at my checks, and the next 3 numbers following the account number (but before the check number) are different on every check, so I just tried the numbers from the next check in the checkbook and it did, indeed, work.

[athomemom86]

I have Chase bank. I wasn't able to find any 3 numbers on my deposit slip or check, so I just put in 3 zeros "000" after my 10 digit account number, and it worked!

[wbrr061304]

Same problem here. My acct number is not 8 digits!

[arc4869]

**SOLVED**

5/3 bank here, ok so I tried firefox, chrome and IE thinking it was a browser issue.  Nope.

Then I tried with the check number at the end of the account number and BINGO.

example,

on your check you have the routing number, account number and check number:

123456789      1234567890    1234

When I just used 1234567890 for my account number (not me real one obviously) I got that same error on all three browsers.

When I used 12345678901234 it worked.

Hope that helps

[WirelessFacile]

Confirmed. adding 3 zeros did work and got us past our service error message.