I imagine this is old news for people who follow this stuff. I used to just receive payments without issue. They came in, I shipped, done. In the past week or so, I have apparently lost money because the authroization 'expired'. Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper. When did this type of transaction start appearing, and what exactly causes them to expire? I didn't even know that they were sitting out there with a different status, and only found out because I'm changing my website and stumbled on expired transactions WHICH I SHIPPED. Extremely frustrating. Couldn't PayPal write some code so that the first few times an account has this type of transaction they get an email explaining what it is, and that you can lose money!!!??? I don't know how PayPal notifies people, but obviously it never made it to me and now I'm out a couple hundred dollars. And in both cases I received an email about the expiration AFTER it expired. Wouldn't it make more sense to send an email BEFORE it expires? Finally the message says to reauthorize the transaction - but it doesn't say how!! Do I have to go back to the customer, or is there a way to do it through the system - there should be a description on the transaction. And this is one reason why I hate PayPal (fees being the other of course).
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