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Completely agree. Xoom is Paypal so that one is out.  Have to read more about wise.com ... View more

This is a PayPal bug. Please see: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Transactions/Can-t-send-funds-to-friends-or-family-nor-to-a-business/m-p/3091294/highlight/false#M135707   --the message with timestamp Aug-27-2023 09:42 AM ... View more

PayPal, I try to send friends/family funds from domestic US account "A" to another domestic account "B", I get the error: "The country you're trying to send money to can't receive this payment."   But when "B" makes a payment request of "A" and "A" responds, it works perfectly, "B" gets the funds. I should not have to be doing software QC for PayPal, this should be a standard test in a regression suite. ... View more

"The country you're trying to send money to can't receive this payment."    I send a monthly friends/family payment to someone, it worked successfully for the first six months of the year, but the error started happening in July and continues to this day.  The sending & receiving accounts are both U.S.-based.  The only account change that has occurred is that the CC associated with my account expired and I had to update my CC information. So PayPal: this is a problem with your service, it's happening to stateside folks as well.   The annoying part of this is that the error message assumes I am trying to send money to a different country when I am not.  The error message should label the country it thinks the payment is being sent to, or "unknown" if there is some back-end problem with how PayPal associates geographic locations with accounts (which I will bet is the real problem here) ... View more