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Terrific.   So my reward for pointing this out--for giving your "engineers" something to go on--is that now I'm unverified and have limits on my account?  Thanks.  Thanks a lot.   Oh, wait, there are MORE rewards?  WOW!   What a deal: NOW I get to be "unverified," so while some 0-feedback thug gets my payment for an auction I won, I can't have an open claim against him because I'm unverified?  He gets to keep my payment but I'm not entitled to the item I paid for?  I LOSE Buyer protection?   Excuse me?   Someone needs to fix this.  If this is really PayPal, you have my contact information.  Call me, re-verify me, do whatever you need to do to put my account back where it was.  I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LIFT A FINGER, and if I do, take a wild guess which one it'll be.   Right this second, my eBay/PayPal account is utterly useless.  You have basically said, "**bleep** up a rope, you unverified unhelpful unknown un-user.  Your eBay feedback is unimportant to us, we would rather give a 0-feedback newbie your money and say it's your fault for being unverified."   YOU KNOW who I am, and I calmed your users down when nothing else worked.  I don't feel entitled to a reward, but HOW DARE YOU think you're entitled to injure me.   FIX IT!  Give me back my money!             ... View more

I have confirmed the repair for this error:   Go to Profile Add or Edit Bank Account Under each bank account, there is a "Delete" hyperlink Click Delete under the top-listed bank account. Ignore the rhetoric, accept the confirmation, delete the account. Repeat... ...and again... ...for EVERY BANK ACCOUNT YOU HAVE If you still get Error 3005, you did not follow all the steps in this solution.  Period.  I am not PayPal, look at my posts, I have been having this problem for MONTHS, I have nothin to hide, no diagnosis to opine and no political interests.  I'm just telling you what finally worked for me.   I too have tried multiple browsers, multiple locations, multiple computers, multiple OSes, two different phones and it comes down to this:   I used to get Error 3005 I Complained.  Loudly.  Everywhere. I got ignored. I used "Send Money" => eBay Items" => through Paypal instead of eBay for every purchase since, and kept waiting. Saw a post here about unconfirmed bank accounts. I deleted an old unconfirmed bank account of mine, thinking I was a dummy for not seeing that sooner. I still got Error 3005 I deleted my PRIMARY bank account. Still got Error 3005 2 minutes ago, I deleted ALL bank accounts. I no longer get Error 3005.   It remains to be seen if I'll have that problem again after I add a bank account, but I was able to spend P:ayPal balance funds without issue, like it was 2005 all over again.  Oh boy, them wuz g00d thymes, wow, y'all.   Come on.  Seriously, E-Pay-Pal-Bay is on auto-pilot.  If I had a wesbite where my customers' incomes dropped even 1%, thereby cutting off 3% of that 1% (my cut), I would hire an army of college kids to fix this bug as fast as possible.  Even if that cost a MILLION DOLLARS, it would have to be cheaper than all the lost revenue they'll keep missing out on until they get this fixed.   And to think all they have to do is TELL PEOPLE to do this for the time being.   Oh well.  If it wasn't for Error 3005, I would never have learned about ProPay, or Netspend, or Moneybrokers, or WorldPay, or any of those, so I guess all I can say is "Thanks, PayPal !"     ... View more

Same here.  I posted on this a couple weeks ago...have heard nothing.   They spent a lot of time making that error page in 90 languages, but can't spend 2 seconds answering the question? ... View more