I am going to add my say to this post as I, like many other am so annoyed with Paypal, I have sold quite a few items recently as I need the money, stuff I didnt want to sell but had to and every withdrawal I have made in the last few weeks has taken the full 72 hours to process, I have 3 pending currently and am desperatly in need of the money but am still sitting here waiting. It seems regardless of the time stated when you make the withdrawal, I did one yesterday and it said it would be 2 hours, no checks etc so I thought great and made plans to pay a few bills but the standard email arrived shortly after stating 72 hours! The thing that really annoys me is the whole "under review" thing is clearly a load of rubbish, Paypal just havent invested or planned enough for the introduction if the new system and havent got the balls to own up and say yeah its our fault, the system cant handle it so we are doing quite a lot of withdrawals the old way which takes 3 days (or 72 hours). I had a chat with one of the supervisors on the phone and he basically admitted that this is the case. Paypal need to consider that these are real peoples lives who are being affected and in the current banking era where payments can be sent accross the world in a few seconds it just is not acceptable. Despite knowing this, Paypal dont really seem to care but why would they, I am not using Paypal because I choose to, I am being forced to if I want to sell on Ebay and as nobody in the last 10 years has come up with a suitable rival to Ebay this will continue to be the case. I found the agent quoting the famous "its in the user agreement" line and I agreed yeah it is but it still doesnt makeit fair or acceptable. The 32 page user agreement may aswell be shortened to simply, "We will do whatever we want as you have no choice but to use Paypal and we are not regulated in the same way as other financial companies in the UK so there will be little comeback if you complain or we mess up, if you dont agree to this f*ck off". I feel better for writing all that anyway and thanks if you bothered reading it all! I will be attempting to withdraw all funds as soon as I get them in future and will never use Paypal to pay for anything other than Ebay items. Peace.
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