I'm a new seller and was curious about this too. I thought it was a hold for the first few payments I received but it's not, it's for all payments received, even instant. Website states something like if you confirm delivered or receive positive feedback your money will be released. True and not True.... If you click on the blue highlighted funds (the amount they are holding) it will tell you a release date. You can have your funds released earlier if the buyer leaves positive feedback. When the buyer leaves positive feedback you must wait at least 3 days for Paypal to release funds. I've verified this one myself with the log book I keep and when the feedback was left. **If feedback was left and it's been more than 3 days there may be a glitch. Read on and I'll explain. You can have your funds released earlier if the item is confirmed delivered. Again...true and not true! I've had an items confirmed delivered, no feedback yet (only been less than 1 week) and yet no funds released. I called and ........PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Although calling in can be a pain, sometimes your money is worth it! Click the contacts link before you call!!!! It gives you a wait number that gets you through faster, less than 3 minutes wait time for me on a Friday morning. If your item has been confirmed delivered and no feedback has been left (or if it has been delivered and feedback has been left) and funds have not been released after waiting at least 3 days, CALL! I did and a very helpful person manually released my funds after confirming they had been delivered and it has been more than 3 days. Funds released while I was waiting and I confirmed it by refreshing my page!!! Customer service stated that this does happen and unfortunately it may/may not be a technical glitch. He put a message into tech support specifically for my account only. It may be a single thing or not but calling solved my issue! I did tell CS that I saw enough posts here to have PP try and solve that problem across the board. I understand the 3 day waiting after confirmed delivered thing but waiting up to 21 days for funds is a bit overboard! 14 days is good, unless confirmed delivered! Hope this helps those looking for the same answer I was an hour ago! Happy bidding/selling!!!
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