I completely understand PayPal putting payment for unusual transactions on hold and payment to new selleers. I am a long standing PayPal/Ebay seller, in good standing, yet PayPal still see fit to put random transactions (around 15%) on hold. I do not think this is for the purposes of buyer protection. The transactions are not unusal and do not appear in any way appear to meet their criteria for putting fund on hold. I think PayPal use it as a means of increasing income (if they put a transaction on hold for a week, they get interest on those funds for the time they are on hold). This is an old bank trick (they used to hold cheque funds for a week, even though the money was available to them in 3 working days). In the meantime, they are significnatly impacting my cash flow! They are putting the viability of my business at risk to gain a few dollars more in bank interest!
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