well I believe I can top that. I tried the same thing, only a " security " alert locked me out of even being able to link my bank account with the Pay Pal, its almost as if they want all available balance funds to be resourced out using pay pal credentials, and not just using them as a go-between. So I'm not able to link up bank account, I call customer service, if you want to call it that, and of course they have no control over issues involving "security" ( remember this), so after getting them to understand my issue and them telling me that they can't do anything about it, I ended wasting 2 1/2 hours of my miserable life. So **bleep** it, I have a pay pal cash card, I'll just do as many transactions as i am allowed each day until I completely empty out the pay pal account... In a perfect world, that would be feasible, but not in the twilight zone! so I attempt to withdraw my funds $200 at a time. the ATM rejects the card. this whole ordeal started Monday, and now its Tuesday night and still no access to my funds. "But wait, there's more", so a couple of days before all this, one of the shadiest acts I've seen a "service" provider do, the only reason I even associate with pay pal, is that I'm selling on ebay. so by selling, you could imagine that there will be constant traffic and the moving of funds so on so forth, so i had 2 customers order almost the exact same item, so exact that i crossed them, so one customer opened a case. once pay pal catches wind, without even a peep, they withdraw whatever funds i had available on pay pal balance and went a step further and left me with a $147 negative balance. how did I find out you ask? well, it definitely wasn't a call, or email, or text, or pay pal message board notification that they always bombard me with! Nope, I found out while it was my turn to check out from standing in a line at a grocery store, and just like that, DECLINED!!!! Now, will The Real Slim Shady please stand up, because he ain't got nothing on pay pal!!! ill leave it at that. now back to my cash card taking a dump, so I call the 5-star customer service dept., so as I'm just sitting there in awe of my current misfortune, only to be double wammied, when they rep. lady tells me to go back to the store and attempt to withdraw money so that when it doesn't allow me to, she can maybe see the "error" code. I'm like, listen here lady, I'm sitting here baby sittin' a pot of beans because I have no access to funds and myself and kids got to eat, the groceries stayed at the grocery store!!! so when she felt she couldn't convince me, she responded to my sad story by giving me advice, she says, just use the send/request feature, and send to someone you trust, at this point, really didn't care what she said, so after hanging up, I thought, well why not. called up a buddy and??????? IT DID NOT WORK!!!! So Wednesday is here, another hour of my life wasted with absolutely no answers. was able to attempt "reset ", on the link of accounts, but wasn't given a definite answer as to if it would work, so now I have to wait for the small deposit amounts etc. Later on that evening, I tried the card again, did not work, so I decided to see if it would work to make a store purchase, it worked? so now im totally stupified!!! went back to ATM, it worked! "Hallelujah, pack it up kids, were going to Applebee's!!!"SO now, i have access to funds, this was Wed. night. Thursday, I let the automation tool do its thing so wait patiently and patiently, finally Friday, i call and the rep quite nonchalantly says, " oh well let's just try this hon", she sent a code to my phone and I read it back to her and boom, the accounts were linked! I am not even going to try and wrap my noggin" around this one. So what do I do, damn right, I go dig up my funds from under the dog house out in the back yard, and start working on my ' instant" transfer, pay the fee ANNDDDD???? YUP, tells me that I have to wait 72 hours... seven and two hours!!!! well im not waiting that long, I'll just do the withdraw little by little using ATM. Now, wither it did not allow me or I might have clicked on something, but that is irrelevant, so now I'm stuck with no funds yet again, as my ordeal has come full circle... Only in the Twilight Zone, can't make this kind of stuff up!!!and so now ends a perfect week, a Friday, sitting here broke, with a pot of beans on the burner!!!
