why can PayPal return money to someone without discussion or a dispute being opened?

alibumd
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We sent an order to the US in September to someone we had previously met in the UK

 

We calculated conversion and shipping, raised an invoice, sent invoice via PayPal, received monies and then posted

 

I have not heard anything to the contrary from the customer

 

This morning I received an email from PayPal advising me that this payment has been cancelled - how can they do that without a dispute being raised? We posted goods in good faith that these monies had been paid to us. I have also emailed the customer

 

this is the email received today

 

Your payment with transaction ID 6KE8xxxxxxxxxxxxxx91W was returned

 

On 22 Sep 2020, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sent you a payment for $87.00 USD.

 

The money has been returned to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx account.

 

This payment was returned because:

 

You asked to manually accept or decline this type of payment.

 

If you have any further questions, log in to your PayPal account and go to the Activity page. Locate this transaction and click the word 'Cancelled' in the Details column.

 

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kernowlass
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@alibumd 

 

Looks as if you didn't add USD as a receiving currency on your UK paypal account ?

If you didn't accept the funds they would 'time out' automatically and be returned to the sender at 30 days.


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