@coppergeva wrote: Hi All I could not agree more, I do not usually keep a large balance in my PayPal account as I am not a frequent ebay user, however, when I see something I would like to bid on and the closing date is a few days I am obviously out of luck if it takes 9 days appear in my account even though it was deducted from my bank account the following day. I know if you have a credit card registered the transaction on the card is immediate. Maybe PayPal and the credit card companies have an understanding. The whole process is very annoying. Even though there are comments on this site relating to this subject is PayPal listening? I don't think they really care, to be honest. They have these safeguards in place, they claim, to prevent fraud and would simply use the argument that, not only are they protecting themselves, but you and I as well. I wish we had debit/credit cards like they do in the US (CIBC has one, BTW, but it has it's share of problems with Paypal). Until we do, we just have to grin and bear it.
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