Recieving money hasn't shown up, why is that? Transaction delayed

[Danpiru]

Okay. So I have been trying to set up a payment between a friend and me using Paypal. Its the system that he sends however much money, and I have to pay in giftcards to get it approved. Last night around 11 pm, he says it left his account. He showed me a screen that was asking if he wanted a reciept, payment successful. Its the rlght email. But I'm still not seeing anything from Paypal at 1:15 the following day. Does it just take 1-3 business days to come through or something? 

[kernowlass]

@Danpiru 

and I have to pay in giftcards to get it approved.

How much of a friend? Or an internet scammer?

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller.

Ignore scammers that send fake Paypal emails telling you that you need to pay an upfront fee to verify/upgrade/or any other reason to 'accept' a payment.

You would certainly never have to send funds via another payment processor/bitcoins/ or tokens/vouchers of any sort.

Any fee is auto deducted by Paypal at the same instant the remainder of the payment is credited to your Paypal account balance.

No funds in your balance = you have not yet been paid, even pending/held payments will still show in your Paypal account activity.