I placed an on-line order and attempted to use PayPal to complete the transaction. I received notification from the vendor that PayPal had not processed the payment. In speaking with the vendor's Customer Service Rep, I was told that when this happens, even if the problem is cleared up with PayPal, transaction processing will be delayed about 3 days. So I gave them my credit card info to allow my order to be shipped today. I then called PayPal Customer Service and, after a l-o-o-n-g wait, was finally connected to a Service Rep who discovered that, for some reason, the system had attempted to withdraw the funds from a PayPal account I don't have rather than charging my credit card. After making sure all my account information was correct, I ended the call. I thought my problems were solved until I discovered a Help posting that said that, when a payment request doesn't go through initially, after a while, other available resources on my account would be accessed to complete the transaction. Since I've already made payment directly to the vendor, I don't want PayPal to process the pending request, but I've been unsuccessful at finding a way to cancel the pending payment. Do I need to take further steps to avoid a double payment? Or will the pending transaction eventually go away because the vendor doesn't need it?
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