Paypal transaction "Pending" for more than 3 months!

[ariskk]

Hi all, I sold an item on ebay last may and the buyer payd straight away and made a positive comment for it. After paying the rediculusly high fees to ebay+paypal (£17 for my £130 sell), my money are still "Pending". No explanation is given on the paypal site why it is still on pending status or what I can do to fix that.

After spending time trying to find a contact form and after filling the form (their web site is quite rubish and buggy by the way, broken links ) and after contacting them, I still haven't got a reply (been a couple of months). Calling them means spending even more money for their issues.

What a waste of time and bad experience it was having a paypal account (and ebay is pretty awful too).

Anyone can advice on what can I do next? And is what paypal do legal?

[ariskk]

And pay more? How much will the phonecall cost from a landline? Especially since, what I read on the net, waiting times are terrible. Will paypal refund the call (it's their fault after all)?

[ariskk]

still my money are "pending"...

[ariskk]

still waiting ...

[ariskk]

Finally yesterday, without giving any reason why the money were held for 4 months or why now they were released, paypal released the holded funds and I've transfered them to my bank account. I'll now close my paypal account. This was quite a dissapointing experience.