I have just gone through a similar ordeal, I am a resident of the Uk & my Mom Lives in the Caribbean, she & I decided to try Paypal after years of using Western Union & growing tired of their hit & miss, incredibly expensive service. Thinking we were upgrading... alas 7 days in & 6 customer service calls later... despite my Mother & My efforts I was consistantly getting the "Pending" response when she tried to send me money. We tried the direct way selecting "Send Money" following steps, when that failed, I tried sending a "Request for funds" but was informed by one of the representitives that this would also be recieved as a "Seller" as the request had been sent as a "Seller" despite me never selecting this option? So with that in mind I took one last stab at it & created a "PayPal.Me Link" this seemed simple enough... I selected the "Friends & Family" option & we thought this was a marvellously simple solution we had simply missed because we were new to the service. Alas same outcome... the dreaded "Pending" funds. Finally today I dug up this forum & discovered others had experienced this problem too... Decided I would give Customer Service one more shot & called back hoping someone may still be able to help. I ended up speaking to a Lovely Lady who actually sounded like she knew what she was doing... she identified the problem as something she had seen before, apparently "Certain Countries Don't Allow The Gift or Friends & Family option for Paypal". She said she needed to check to make sure, she then confirmed it was on the "List of Countries" who have this "Option Barred". This isn't something I was aware of & it has cost me alot of time. So I post in the hope that this may be of use to someone else in the future so they can save the time I wasted. I still see use for Paypal but the service Isn't as advertised & the CSR's that answered the other five times I called this week all seemed very hands off & abysmal to my issue & it was utterly frustrating. Thank God someone finally could give me a straight answer even if it's not the answer I want... it's an end to the questioning of what was going wrong & where... the last person I spoke to asked me if I couldn't send someone to do the transaction for my Mother.... & didn't take the time to check if her Country was one of those that is "Only Allowed Seller/ Buyer Accounts". Just assumed the fault lay with User Error & call it a day. Hey Paypal may have it's uses... but today I discovered this "False Claim of Instant Transfer" isn't one of them.
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