@dw_sage wrote: your best bet is to stop using paypal altogether and use your bank's email money transfer option. My bank allows me to email money to anyone for $1.50. I would much rather pay the $1.50 and get it transfered overnight instead of waiting for paypal to do their processing time, during which time your daughter could have run out of money and starved and resorted to begging and stealing. Hi! When I first read your reply I laughed a little-but reading further, I am getting a little worried. You are the only feedback I have gotten so far-and the many unresolved issues are alarming. According to the many compaints this is the WORST CASE SCENARIO: 1) A hold on the echeck sent to my daughter-and apparently, a reliable back-up is not a consideration. 2) I am on a fixed income-and another attempt to send money incurs an additional draw in my checking acct. 3) My initial deposit to my PayPal goes into limbo and am unable to complete my ebay purchase 4) The PayPal reloadable card is rejected as an instant remedy-and more money out of pocket 5) no timely remedy or recourse. If any one of these things happen, I will not make my bills this month.
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