Hi all, Hopefully someone can tell me where I am going wrong here. Originally bought an item on Ebay, bank account is linked to paypal and has been for a long while without issue. Paypal attempts to take money from my account for said item, approx £86, and bank refuses because not enough funds. I didnt notice as bank didnt inform me, paypal didnt inform me. First I hear is by email from Paypal saying balance manager will no longer attempt to take amount from your account so I look at paypal and find I am in negative balance for the amount of the item. I rectify this immediately and think no more of it. I bought another item from ebay about a week later, knowing I had enough to cover the cost in my bank account and order goes through as normal I bought some food next night using paypal, instead of taking funding from my bank account as usual, it takes from my balance. Unusual as I know i do not ever have a paypal balance so I check to find I have £86 which has been transferred from my bank account (which is now minus the money for the food I just ordered). I check further to find that this is the money to cover the now week and a half old orignal negative balance, which I had paid and recieved an email to say so (so much for balance manager not re attempting to take it) I realise that this transaction has now taken the money for the item I had just purchased on ebay and sent it back to my bank account. Needless to say it didnt reach in time so I have yet another charge from my bank, another negative balance on my account and now grief from debt collectors, go on paypal !! I recieve another email from paypal, telling me they are converting the negative balance to euros (as per policy) and I have an email telling me it was converted to euros. I paid the balance on this email which to me says because of the exchange rate on the day £226.27 " PayPal has made a transfer between the balances in your account for the following reason: Our policy of converting all negative balances to E after 4 days The following transfers were made: Negative balance : -233.14 GBP Covered From : €275.65 EUR (1 Euro = 0.845770 British pounds) Yours sincerely, PayPal PayPal has made a transfer between the balances in your account for the following reason: Our policy of converting negative to positive balances. The following transfers were made: Negative balance : -275.65 EUR Covered From : £226.27 GBP (1 British pound = 1.18572 Euros) Yours sincerely, PayPal Next day I get an email from Paypal to say they have recieved my £226.27, 4 hours later I get another email to say exchange rate has gone up so I owe another 6 euros. I contact via message centre as 0800 numbers are expensive with my mobile provider and get a reply next day telling me I hadnt paid enough. And now it seems I cant use the bank account that I have been using for years to fund anything through Paypal I reply with the above information 3 times and no response from Paypal's supposedly secure message centre. Is this normal and do Paypal read these posts. Hope so as it seems the only way to contact without a massive phone bill Sorry for the large post but...
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