Anyone ever send a Paypal payment to Canada or other international location and it be delayed...
coin22lover
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for no obvious reason? I sent $265 to a forum member from Toronto who invoiced me after I received a coin from them, and it just says "pending" but they claim they don't see anything in their Paypal summary at all.
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Never had a problem in Canada or Europe, sample of maybe 200 purchases over the years. May not have anything to do with foreign purchase.
You had to have typed something differently than the PayPal address he provided you. Check with him, then go into PP, cancel that transaction and start a new one with the correct address.
An address in your PP may automatically pop up. If that happens delete it since you don't want to keep a bad address in your contacts list.
Possibly because it is an International transaction. When I buy books from Spink in London and use PayPal, it seems to me that the "Pending" status lasts longer. This has happened in the last 30 days.
PayPal is NOT a bank and is not subject to the exact same set of rules regarding clearing items that Banks MUST follow.
Perhaps my memory is faulty and the transaction was with Token Publishing (also in UK). One or the other.
Nope, they invoiced me and I paid them. They verified the screenshot of the transaction as being correct by name and email.
only delay I have had is when I fund payment with bank account - cash balance or credit card is fast.
If the payment was made using funds from your bank account or an eCheck (rather than PP balance or Credit Card), that would explain it.
Agree with @davewesen and @Pokermandude. Anything through a bank (eCheck or ye ol’ standard checking or savings accounts) will be delayed as the monies have to be sent through various “checks and balances” while CC and ready “cash” in the PP account is a bit quicker.
In my opinion, of course.
Still nope...it was funded with my PP balance.
Maybe the amount was out of the norm for buyer or seller?
Here's an idea: ask PayPal instead of shooting down random suggestions from us.
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Watch for extra fees, especially if PayPal automatically converts your U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars.
A few years ago I used PayPal to send money to an Australian guy. I had to manually select U.S. dollars, or else it would've automatically converted to Australian dollars. And I was charged a 1% fee for what was supposed to be free (Friends & Family transfer).
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