Payment to friends and family still pending
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Every month I send some money to a family member overseas. The last 2 months, paypal has held the paypment on my side as "pending" for 10 days. My December payment was made on 20th December and it's showing as Pending until 30th December. I definitely selected Send to Friend or Family so why is PayPal doing this? I have been unable to find anything helpful in the FAQ.
- Labels:
-
Holds
-
Sending Money
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Pending refunds can only happen for two reasons.
1. You issued a refund from your bank account which takes time to process.
2. Your brother funded the payment to you using their bank account as their funding source. What PayPal do here is credit you the funds on their behalf (so there is no delay in despatching any item if applicable). Then if you refund in the meantime they are unable to access this until the original bank transfer completes.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
You wrote "You are replying to posts made in 2015 and 2016 and things have been updated since then on a lot of paypal info."
Perhaps.. but this JUST happened to me... I'm disgusted with PayPal's lack of response and responsibility...
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Paypal payments are never instant, that is why if you are paying for goods paypal credit the seller upfront and paypal take the wait for the funds to transfer from the buyer, this is so there is no delay in the despatch of any items.
That is why we get buyers on here confused that there item is on the way but the funds haven't left their bank account yet (its quicker with a debit or credit card of course).
However friends / family payments that are funded via a bank account paypal do not credit in advance, this time its you and the recipient that have to take the wait for the funds to transfer. And as a lot of folks use the bank account option (as there is no fee) then paypal use the slowest (cheapest) transfer option which goes via ACH in batches.
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
Haven't Found your Answer?
It happens. Hit the "Login to Ask the community" button to create a question for the PayPal community.
- Got someone sending me money asking for payment to recieve in Transactions Archives
- July 2023 new scam, Dispute scam, did not close dispute/personal data leak: in Security and Fraud Archives
- Paypal pay in 3 payment to seller still pending after 24 hours in Products & Services Archives
- Mistakenly cancelled pending payments in Transactions Archives
- I have 2 Pending Payments in Products & Services Archives