Paypal Pay in 4 glitch, no confirmation, pending authorisation transaction disappeared.

Emu-95
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Hi all, I used Paypal Pay in 4 for the first time the other day, to buy a few things (in one transaction) online from JB HI FI. However, after going through the motions at checkout to use Pay in 4 as my payment method, once completed, I received no kind of purchase confirmation or any correspondence from the vendor to show the transaction had gone through. In my Paypal transactions, the first payment was listed as "pending authorisation", however the money for the first payment had already been instantly taken from my account. I tried googling what was going on and saw an explanation about the funds pending until the vendor accepts and processes the order, otherwise the money is refunded after a certain amount of time. I made this purchase 4 days ago, and I just logged into Paypal to find that the pending transaction has disappeared altogether. There's no mention of it having been processed nor refunded, it's just entirely ceased to exist, and I checked my bank account to see maybe if the order didn't go through and the money was refunded without notification, but this is not the case, either. I also contacted the vendor's support service the other day to try and confirm whether the order had been received, but I've not received any correspondence. I can't use Paypal's resolution centre as the transaction in question has disappeared and so I can't select it. I'm at a complete loss on what I should do or CAN do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, TIA.

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Dark3st
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Same thing has happened to me and I haven't received any refund yet after 1 month.  order id: General Authorization: Miron Enterprises, LLC
ID: 50831572TP128030M 

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asclarke
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I never received a refund even when they “confirmed” to me they sent it and when I asked for proof they simply wrote a statement saying they did without showing actual proof. Then told me it was up to my bank and refused to help me further, it’s been months. I’m thinking of filing with an ombudsman since they stole $80 from me with this seeming to be a regular problem. If your transaction is still showing in your bank account try and contact your bank and ask for a charge back to paypal and explain the situation. Something similar happened to me with another company and they were able to do the chargeback since they could still see the transaction in my history.
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mazf96
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theyve just done the same to me taken $81 out my account, cleared the pay in 4 activity so nothing on my paypal account but my bank says they took $81.. how the heck can we get our money back, can anyone write what they did to get their money back. never use paypal againnn
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I had a similar issue with pay in 3, however the transaction is still pending in my bank and it has been 5 days since the money has been taken from my bank
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Garcia42
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PayPal pay in 4 glitch no confirmation
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Lwelch42
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It's spring the same thing to me at best buys website it's not best buy its paypal earlier it kept saying my password was wrong also
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msikka
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Same problem here!! What a mess this thing is. Now I'm stuck. PayPal needs to figure out how to make it's own stuff work.

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Lindyb52
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Did the money leave your bank account?  Did you look in purchase history?

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eddieau
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I too am having this same issue while my authorisation pending is still showing currently I too have had the money taken from my bank and after contacting the shop I was trying to use this service for it seems they have had no contact from pay pal so there is a major bug here and I would strongly recommend not using this feature till the bugs are worked out. I tried to contact PayPal but as this is a authorisation pending or maybe it’s the pay in 4 I’m told it’s not eligible for help 😞 I’ll update if I see the money come back. I guess it’s one way to earn free money hold other people cash for a week even when there’s been some glitch on PayPal side. 

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guenter4711
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