Just to update anyone who sees this thread and is in the same circumstances. kernowlass was right, in that since now eBay and Paypal are no longer a joint company. Paypal no longer has the ability to manually release funds. i.e after the item has been confirmed delivered + 3 days have passed. When it comes to ebay sales. Although, eBay now does. After contacting eBay, I explained to them what I wrote in this forum, an they confirmed that they(eBay) are able to release the funds. Abiding by that they can see your account is in good standing and that the item has been confirmed delivered and 3 days have passed, so the buyer has had time to make sure the item arrived safe and is what they wanted. They call it a, 'courtesy to sellers'. It could to some degree be discretional if they're calling it a courtesy, so I wouldn't take it as a given, that just because your item has been confirmed delivered and 3 days have passed, that they will 100% release your payment. The payment can take upto 24hrs to be released on paypal. To quote from the transcript (due to text limit in the chatbox, i've lumped some messages together) - 02:54:13 UTC phi-armst Well essentially. It used to be, when Paypal/eBay was a joint company. If a payment had been held pending, if the item sold had been confirmed delivered + 3 days had passed. Paypal could manually have the payment released. Though now paypal/ebay are two seperate companies, ebay now issues the holds. So from what I read, eBay can now issue the pending payment to be released, once the item had been confirmed delivered + 3 days had passed 02:54:58 UTC phi-armst The item in question had been confirmed delivered last week via tracking/signature. 02:56:02 UTC Jonaglen You are correct. No worries, I can see that this item ''MSI R9 390 GAMING 8G Graphics Card (262453460654) '' has been delivered. Rest assured that I will manually release your money now. This will show on your account within 24 hours, once the system has been updated. 02:56:20 UTC phi-armst Ok thank-you very much 🙂 02:56:50 UTC Jonaglen You are very much welcome. Rest assured that, Once you've met all the requirements, I can assure you that you will receive all your buyers payment directly on your PayPal account. Deleted some of the conversation here due to irrelevance. 02:59:26 UTC Jonaglen No worries, for this circumstances, rest assured that we are giving our sellers a courtesy to manually release your money once we confirm that the item has been received or delivered.
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