It gets stranger. About a week or so ago, PAD suddenly and unexpectedly started working again for me. My eBay and PayPal accounts are linked again, and I've made several successful PAD purchases without having to resort to @Derann's workaround. I didn't knowingly do anything to make it happen, and PayPal "Support" were, and are still (as far as I know, I have had no further response from them on this issue), maintaining that there was and is no problem; that despite me referring them to this thread as evidence that I was not the only sufferer. I tried to post a message here to see if anyone else had got PAD back, but then got hit by a bug in the forum software which rejected my posts with spurious HTML coding errors (despite the fact I wasn't adding any HTML at all). I reported that to PayPal Technical Support, and they have just emailed me to say the problem (which they could reproduce) has finally been fixed (see @PP_MTS 'Test - please ignore' post 2 hours ago) ... so here goes ...
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