After over a decade of having my bank account linked to Paypal I woke up one morning to find it had gone. That was odd as I never received anything from my bank or Paypal to say why.
I went about trying to re add it, which initially gave me various error messages eg. try again later (the single most annoying error message ever: when later? what is likely to happen in the meantime to make things different). Paypal help pointed out there were two applications pending for the same account and when I went to delete the extra one there was only one and the app wouldn't let me delete it. Later it disappeared. I don't recall if i removed it as frankly it is one of those situations where I try multiple avenues to try to restore my acct to its previous status as the source of funds and get different closed doors each time, the process and my patience are so frazzled I sometimes think I am losing my mind.
Ultimately when I do succeed in getting somewhere with linking my bank account I am waiting for the small confirmatory deposit but it never appears in my bank statement. Countless explanations by PayPal's automated help that I need to look at the deposits of a few cents and enter the amounts is any use if the deposits aren't there.
The only two things i can think of are it is something to do with my bank (they aren't saying anything if it is) or i have been blocked from applying because it thinks I was planning some brute force type attempt at guessing the money deposited as I think you only get limited attempts to enter the small amounts deposited for security reasons. A bit like being locked out of a bank account for multiple incorrect PIN attempts. If so Paypal gives no indication of this.
I will keep badgering paypal assistant about this but I was wondering if anyone has had this experience? Any ideas?
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