I want to buy something costing over $1500, but also want to take advantage of Pay In 4. If I have a PayPal balance, I want to use that first, then the remaining amount to be paid with Pay In 4, but I don't see a way to do that. I recently made a purchase of almost $1500 and had a balance of $150, which I expected to be used first, but at the checkout page for the purchase I saw that my $150 balance was not used and the whole amount was divided into 4 payments. So the starting PayPal balance was useless. Is there some way I could mix payments, so for example to buy a $2000 purchase, put $500 on it either with my PayPal balance or from my bank account through PayPal, and then make the $1500 balance over Pay In 4? Or, even for smaller purchases under the $1500 Pay In 4 limit, how can I either use my existing PayPal balance first, or pay part of the price from my bank account, and just set up Pay In 4 for the remainder? That would be a helpful option. The only way I can see to do it is to contact the seller and ask them to take 2 payments for the sale - first, pay the $500 in the example with a single payment, then make a Pay In 4 arrangement for the balance. But not all sellers will do this or even have an easy way to contact them or make separate payments. It's a real limitation to PayPal that there's no easy way to do this. You might have 2 or more bank accounts, and want to make one part payment from one, and the rest from another or from wherever the Pay In 4 is taken from. Does anyone know a better way to do what I have in mind? Preferably without having to work around PayPal, I'd rather it work for me
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