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Never heard of this before myself. My main account (where funds are drawn from and deposited into) is a Nationwide personal account, and my back-up card is a Nationwide credit card. Been the same since 2010 and these are the only payment and withdrawal methods I have ever had.   Can happily take money out and pay money in as if with any other card! ... View more

All you can do is ask them nicely. Technically in this case it was your fault. The buyer made payment, you shipped the item and didn't claim the money so it was reversed to the buyer as per Paypals terms.   Paypal give an overly generous window of 30 days for you to claim funds as they make interest on that money, but can't hold it any longer legally. All you can do is pray on the good will of the buyer. ... View more

Just went to make a withdrawal and was amazed that it didn't say it was going to be held and simply said it would take up to two hours. Excitedly I hit the submit button thinking 'wow, my first withdrawal not to be held' and got this having already hit submit;   Your withdrawal request status For security reasons, we've had to delay your withdrawal request while we review it. Your withdrawal request will be under review for up to 72 hours. After our review is complete, PayPal will release your funds. It can take an additional 2 hours for those funds to be deposited into your bank account.   Looks like they're not even warning you now until it's too late. Thought it was too good to be true... ... View more

Would be great if someone from Paypal could answer this one...   So apparently the number of security holds on our withdrawals was an error, and shouldn't happen as much as it was. According to this BBC article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19814433), the problem was noted as being solved as of 11.49am on the 3rd October.   I want to quote the following two lines from the article; "PayPal said that transfers of funds into users' bank accounts should now take place within six hours." and then "Some withdrawals will still need to be reviewed for risk, security or regulatory reasons, and may take longer as a result, but these will be a very small proportion,"   Can anyone please explain why after this was apparently 'solved' on the 3rd, not only is my withdrawal request from the 2nd still 'pending review' 74 hours later, but also are two further withdrawals made on the 3rd at 8:56pm (now 31 hours later, AFTER the problem was solved) and then on the 4th at 10:40am (now 17 hours on).   So, not only have both of my withdrawals since the problem was apparently solved been stuck as pending  due to review for longer times than Paypal said they should, when I now go to make another separate withdrawal it says; "For security reasons, we are reviewing your withdrawal request, which could take up to 72 hours."   I thought, according to the BBC news article the problem was now solved, and that should you be the small minority who's withdrawals go under review, it wouldn't take any longer than six hours?   Three out of three of my withdrawals since the problems were solved on the 3rd have gone under review, and I am still being  quoted ridiculous times to get my money out. What the **bleep** is going on, and where the **bleep** is my money?! This 'problem' clearly isn't sorted.   Pull your finger out, stop withholding peoples money without any valid reason and sort it out!!   I reported this to Watchdog. I advise anyone else still having all of their withdrawals held, or for more than 6 hours to do the same as Paypal are not willing to answer us on what is going on.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/gotastory/ ... View more