Adrian - Needed to pay a large bill and the compnaies site uses paypal. Since the card I used was registered with paypal, I had to sign into paypal. Was then told I needed to verify using my bank account becuase the payment exceeded some unknown limit. I just tried to instantly verify a bank account so I could use credit card and clicked to submit online account info (inof that looks ripe to be a phishing expediction). I was immediately taken to a screen telling me the 2-3 day slow mechanism was being used. Why did this happen. Others have posted about this exact problem in various forums and gotten no reponse from users or paypal staff and paypal's help screens make no mention of this. If it's standard practice to kick a user over to the 2-3 day process if something goes wrong with the instant process, the system should say so. This experience is an example of why I avoid using paypal whenever I can.
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