How do you use paypal balance to pay for ebay?

[sophiesmummy201]

Hi i recently recieved a refund with ebay, how do i use this balance to pay for items on ebay?

Also it says i have a balance of 39.08 is this the amount i have available to spend?

[MacGruber]

***** FIX / SOLUTION ***** PROBLEM: You have a balance in your PayPal account but are seemingly unable to use it to make purchases on eBay. The only options you may have is a linked credit card or bank account. FIX: You need to change your Primary Currency in your PayPal account settings to the country you reside! Click "PayPal Balance"> "Manage Currencies"> select your currency, add that currency and make it primary. Once this is done you may need to re-login to your eBay account for the settings to take effect. But you should now have PayPal Balance as a payment option. Explanation: I live in Canada (CAD) and make a lot of purchases from the United States (US). My balance was in US and Primary Currency was set as US and it would make sense that the things I'm buying are in US so no problem right? Wrong lol I could not use it until I changed my currency to CAD first. Doing it like this effectively means PayPal will **bleep** me on the exchange rate, because it now has to go from US to CAD and to US again. But at least I can use the funds in my account. The other option is to transfer your balance to your credit card or bank and then make a purchase from either. I'm sure the argument is that country's have business restrictions or some such nonsense. But thats just how it is. NOTE: This problem should only affect folks who are attempting to make a payment in a currency that is not the same as the country with which they reside. It's pretty sad that the PayPal service reps have not given a straight answer for this simple problem. But there you go folks!

[mcdix]

[snobt]

thank you so much! This worked for me. I was fustrated for hours wondering why i wasn't able to use my balance. 

[inhouston]

I am new to this problem, have been with paypal and ebay many years and if I had a paypal balance it always took from that and the balance from our bank acct but now it always takes from our bank account regardless, we called a paypal rep and had them make paypal our primary payment over the phone and we just paid for a purchase on ebay and it left the balance there and took from our bank acct again, this is so frustraing how can we fix this.

[MrMetal]

Still no solution for this?
I have balance in both USD and EUR and I can't seem to spend either...everytime I try to checkout it goes to my debit card.

[anca_musat]

hi. I am in belgium and using an ING maestro card. can i top up the paypal balance with my ING account and then pay on ebay with the paypal balance? thanks!  

[PayPal_Siobhan2]

Hi anca_musat,

Thank you for contacting the PayPal Community Forum and welcome as a new member!

To send a payment on PayPal you need to add and verify your local bank account or card. You do not need to add funds to the PayPal Account balance before making a payment. When you make a payment we will take the funds directly from your funding source.

- Siobhan

[nirbod]

I think I found workaround which make sense.

I was having paypal balance in USD and EU but when Im making orders in Ebay UK in GBP they never gave me option to pay with may current balanse. So I logged in my Paypal account and transfer all my balance from USD and EU into GBP. Once I did that when I complete my ebay order with GBP - my balance was uses and the rest money were taken from my bank card. Hope that will help you

Cheer's

[coresh]

Helped to me:

1. Removing all Credit cards from account
2. Logout
3. Login
4. Re-creating payment again with paypal

[jalle007]

This is such frustrating problem. and I am afraid It's not a problem that happens accidentally, but deliberately so as to charge more conversion fees.

I had to return laptop purchased on eBay. It was totally wrong item ! But at least I got refund.

Now my balance has ammount I need to purchase another laptop.

How can I use that balance for purchase ?

Dont want to withdraw it to bank and then back again to eBay. It would be double conversion fee!!

How can I use the balance for purchase on eBay ?

ps: both eBay and Paypal  accoutn are in USD. I see no reason why couldnt I use  existing balance !