I have used a games site for some time now, most games are free to play but you can buy extra tokens if you get low. I used to buy lottery tickets, now I use the odd couple of pounds to buy tokens for these games. I pay for entertainment value. I have bought tokens a few times, the cost is low, actually it is under £2 each time. At first the payment was made straight away, as happens with my eBay purchases. Then I was told that PayPal would wait until I had made several transactions and would collect payment all at once. That was not a problem, apart from having to remember that I now had debt which I had not asked for ! Most times the payment would be taken within 2 weeks. I do not buy a lot of things at present as I am out of work. This time when i go to buy tokens I am asked to top up my PayPal account by £5 ? No explanation why, I have not been contacted by PayPal to advise of any change of method of payment and can find no information about this anywhere. As I said, I am out of work. I only have a small pension. I do not mind paying for things if I buy them, but do not see why I should be asked to put £5 onto my account. I may not have £5 to spare until my next pension payment arrives. The remaining money would just sit in my account ? So, I came to the main PayPal site instead. If I must add funds I will do it here, not when logged into a third party website. Except now I cannot add funds. I am told to add my bank account and a transfer will be made within 5-7 days - that is no good when I wish to make a purchase now. I always pay using my UK bank issued Visa Debit card. I have had my account for many years... If I use eBay I can buy and a PayPal transfer is made straight away. I have never been asked to fund my account like this before. Why ?
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