Of course it's a scam, why is it when we BUY something online, it's taken instantly from our accounts, whether bank checking, credit card, etc. BUT our money mysteriously takes days, a week to get from our bank to paypal. There is BIG money in that FLOAT, as it used to be called in the pre computer days, ie: the float between a transaction originating and a transaction finalizing. With Paypal basically having a monopoly over Ebay payments, they probably think they can get away with anything they want to, and do so.. I've bought much less on Ebay in the last year because of this, I'm very turned off with the restrictions on paying some other way than Paypal (yes they have Paymate, etc.. but no one uses them, maybe they should).
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