I am a private Ebay seller from 2012. Over 160 positive transactions, never had any issues. Never had any transactions held by Paypal (perhaps apart from the first one, ages ago in 2012... For all those years I have been living in UK. I have recently moved to Poland. Because there is no option to change the country on PP, I have done what Paypal is advising - I have closed UK Paypal account and reopened a Polish Paypal account. Now, both old and new accounts are linked with Ebay. Both are on the same email address and personal details (apart from the address of course). I have sold an item, nothing expensive a £20 old router. Both Ebay and Paypal surly know, that I am the same guy. It didn't stop them from holding my money. It's not like I am going to go bankrupt without £20, it is just bloody annoying! I don't have to tell you what happens when you try to contact PP. You get an automated reply. If you answer to it, you eventually get a response, but the response I got is pretty much : "sorry dude, we know it is you but we will still treat you like we have never heard of you before, and you can go and **bleep** yourself if you don't like it." What annoys me even more is that I have sent the item with a tracking number. The item is in UK, undelivered waiting for a collection from a local post office. Now, it's not my freaking fault that the dude I have sold the item to wasn't at home when the parcel arrived and can't be asked to collect it. My £20 is still on hold... I have never said a bad word about PP before but this is just so out of order. I am glad to know that there are new payments methods coming to EBay. Now this is how PP is rewarding me for being honest and following their T&C. I could keep my UK account and use it and would not have those issues, but I have done what they ask for and this is the price for it. My advice to users is not to tell them when you change the country as they will simply **bleep** you up! Cheers PP!
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