Check your profile and see what is your PRIMARY payment method. If a credit card is set up as primary payment then that is why you are being asked for a number. If you have never added a credit card to your account then it is not verified and you will have these kinds of problems. Although I have listed a seperate checking account as my primary method of payment, all of a sudden Paypal is taking the money from my credit card. I'm wondering if Paypal is going to abandon the e-check option in favor of everyone using credit cards. That way we would be forced to keep money in the actual Paypal account or allow them access to the credit card at all times. Let's just say I am looking for a better way to pay online all the time, one that people will accept. This Paypal monopoly is getting downright annoying.
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