I posted about this on another forum, I've been havning the exact same problem. I have used this card for over two years with no problem using my backup funding, but for the past three weeks I have only been able to use it a handful of times. I looked back over my Paypal history, and there were many days where I had over eight transactions per day, and now I'm not allowed more than two per week! When I first called I was told the same as you, that I needed to let some transactions complete. That sounded reasonable since it was a holiday weekend, so banks were a day behind on sending Paypal their money, and at the time I probably had over 15 transactions pending. But now I've hardly used the card, I have two transactions pending and the total is under $125, yet I haven't been able to use the card for almost five days. No one has given me a straight answer; in fact the last Paypal rep I spoke with told me that I had over $2500 in pending transactions - which isn't possible for so many reasons, the main one being that I haven't been allowed to use the card so there's no way I have that much in outstanding transactions! She finally admitted that there is a glitch that shows $2500 in transactions and that they are working on it. But that was over a week ago and I still can't use the card. I've called so many times and never get an answer or explanation, but if anyone does I hope you post it here.
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