Same here. This is tormenting me for years and despite the countless complaints from their users paypal will still not do anything about it. Just do a google search for this problem and you'll see paypal members complaining about it from pre-2009 till today. Not a single thing has changed to make this easier for us. Not even an explanation as to why they won't let us avoid paying from paypal balance. As we still cannot add a bank account to our paypal in our country this is extremely problematic and it charges me higher fees for nothing. It is totally unacceptable for a company as big as paypal to ignore complaints from so many users for such a huge issue and not do anything about it. It just shows how this company is run and their true intentions. EDIT: btw there is a workaround for this. Send all your paypal balance money to another account (as gift obviously), payp what you need to pay with credit card, then return the money from the other account to the original. So knowing this workaround exists, what is the point for not allowing avoiding taking money from paypal balance in the first place??
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