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@kernowlass wrote: @popober   Not paypals fault neither you or your employer READ how things worked before you sent funds.   And don't worry i will make sure i don't EVER help you or respond to any of your posts from now on as you are so rude.   Feel free to reply.....guess you won't be able to resist.......but neither I nor i doubt anyone else will bother to read it.   Byeee Sure, I'll admit I didn't read because I thought paypal was trustworthy. I mean I absolutely had a choice, right?   I'll also admit my employers using paypal suck. But does that make it any less of a scam? Noooope.   Hey, if saying the truth is rude then sure I'm rude. But I'm pretty sure it's ruder to tell people "it's YOUR fault paypal is scamming you" and defending a lie with another bald-faced lie.   You, uh, didn't really help me. And, from what I've seen in other threads in this section, not anyone else either it seems. It's just the robot reply of "It's paypal policy, suck it up." Replying with robot cliches never help anyone. ... View more

@kernowlass wrote: @popober   21 days is for buyer protection and ALL of us sellers have been through it and EVERY seller on ebay and other sites has been through it.   And what employees do I have?????????????   I don't work for paypal ......this is a user to user help forum and I am an ebay seller that helps out here.....hence the word VOLUNTEER by my username.   All I can do is tell you how paypal works, I don't make their policies.   And your employer could still have used the personal payment option but chose to make you send an invoice so that you became subject to the new seller hold.     Sorry then, I thought you were getting paid to suck up.   Sure, everyone's been through it. Most of them complain about it. A lot of them suddenly get relegated back to it. But does it do anything aside from allow paypal to make money off of something not theirs? "Oh just suck it up and take getting dunk into a pit of manure. Everyone's done it despite the fact it serves no actual good."   Textbook conformism.   Uh, no. They're my EMPLOYERS. Nothing personal about that. You're defending one part of paypal by telling me to go against another. But sure, my employers are absolutely at fault for trying to make sure they can keep better track of their stuff and not paypal for instituting a scam that benefits no one except them.   Let those who were expecting to start earning a new life just starve because they can't get their money for another 3 weeks. ... View more

@kernowlass wrote: @popober   The ''hold'' is for new sellers and funds are released at 21 days.   Hardly a ''scam''.   If you were not a selling something then you should not have used that method should you??   If your employer had used the personal payment option you would have had the money by now and that is why paypal give you that option. It's a scam because it doesn't do anything except allow paypal to make money off other people's money on top of the fee already deducted. If the money is immediately released after confirmation or whatever, sure fine. But sticking 21 days is just ridiculous. Even shortening it to 7 is still unreasonable.   And you seem to think I had a choice in the matter. My employer using an online network to pay their foreign employees is understandable, paypal scamming people is not. I know it's your job, but the blame is clearly on your employers here. Not on me or mine. It sucks that they have to use paypal of all things, but that's the most that is wrong with their method. ... View more

@kernowlass wrote: @popober   Thats why then, if you send an ''invoice'' then you are selling a product / services and so will have the 21 day new seller hold applied.   The only way to get it instantly is for them to use the personal payment friends / family option. Well this is just a scam... From everything I've read and seen, this isn't protecting anyone but paypal and is really just to make them money. I didn't even know this company scams people and, apparently, they can get away with it. Ugh. If only I weren't forced to use it. And payapal probably just finds that funny. ... View more

I sent them an invoice, which was how their system worked. After reading your post, I thought I might have been able to set the the invoice' nature differently. I didn't see anything when I checked the invoce creation page, however.. ... View more