Hello, I've emailed paypal 3days ago and had no response, tried calling but have been on hold forever and am at work - so thought as a last ditch attempt i would try and get some answers from the forums! This is my first time using paypal and ebay. I set everything up, verified my account by loging the amounts deposited etc etc. Then went on to make 7 purchases on ebay - I paid for all items at the time of purchase and all the money/payments came out fine. 5days later i get 7emails from paypal to say that Barclays have reversed the payemtns and took them back into my account! 2items were then paid for on my credit card which i had set up as a back up payment method.. But the other 5 items couldnt be paid for via credit card (not sure why?) .. So i now have 5open disputes for these 5items as the sellers have not been paid. I went to see barclays to ask why they took the money back and they said it was due to paypal taking the money as a Direct Debit - and obvisiously i hadnt signed any direct debit agreement for both partys - hence barclays said they had no choice but to reversed the payment. I am uncertain why paypal requested payment as a direct debit? (Barclays said it was nothing to do with them and not their issue and i needed to resolve this with paypal - however i've had no email back from paypal, nor can i get throu to talk to anyone 😞 .. so at a loss on what to do or whos fault it is?) I then decided to try to "add funds" to my account - in the hope this would automatically pay off any money i owed out to the sellers who had opened disputes against me.. So i uploaded £25's worth of funds (which covered all costs i owed out) .. and then most of it vanshed (now leaving me with +£1.85 on my paypal balance) .. Hence i assumed everyone had been paid and the disputes would now be solved & go away... But then i recieved an email from one of the sellers asking if i was aware that payment hadnt been made and there was an issue with my account :-(.. So now i dont know where my added funds have vanished to? I dont have a differnt bank account i can link to my paypal to pay these people... and i cant pay them on my credit card for whatever reason (it just said it wasnt a valid payment method) .. and i done own a cheque book etc. I am sure there is a simple soultion to this - but its had me really worried/upset as no one seems to have an answer on why my money was took as a direct debit insted of a normal payment? and how i can resolve this? Sorry for the length of this! Many thanks in advance for any help or guidence! Emma
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