Paid my rent on the 4th this month, through paypal. Paypal and my bank (USAA) took a leisurely three days to actually remove the funds. In that time, an unexpected fee to reship a Christmas present hit, and left me five dollars short. Paypal kicked the payment back for insufficient funds and charged me thirty bucks for the privileged. Frustrating, but fine, my bad. I added funds to my bank account to cover what was missing, and sent it again, on the 7th. Now, on the 15th, Paypal informs me that I owe them a second rent payment. Because apparently they didn't just cancel the first payment when it failed, they just waited and arbitrarily charged it again more than a week later? Frankly I'm stumped for the logic here. What went wrong, how do I fix it, and how do I make sure this stupidity doesn't happen again?
