This is about a payment I've just recently sent to purchase an item, that is currently Pending. I'm seeing that Paypal is telling me it will take two weeks for my payment to be released. I have purchased items from online stores and sent money to people many times and have had the payment immediately go through. This waiting period also does not seem consistent with eCheck's quoted 3~5 days (which I've not had to deal with before either), so I'm wondering if there is another factor involved. This method doesn't make much sense to me, as now literally nothing will happen until an arbitrary two weeks pass, my funds are released, and then the item will get shipped (Paypal recommends the seller to not ship until funds are released in case they cannot withdraw them). Why is this huge wait period here at all? Besides the inherent wait time, this is also problematic because I'm also paying for the item's shipping costs, and the seller will be printing out the shipping label through Paypal. I do not currently have a backup payment method. If I add a backup method, cancel the payment and send again (using Instant Transfer), will the same period apply? More ideally, is there any way to tell Paypal to simply go ahead with the payment, even if I have to wait 3~5 days for the eCheck? Or, just withdrawing funds into my Paypal balance and then using that?
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