What does it mean when a Paypal payment is "Unclaimed"?

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 23, 2005 12:06AM

  It probly means that you tried to pay with a credit card and the person has a personal account which cannot take CC payments and therefore has yet to decide whether or not to accept or deny your payment. If he decides to accept it then he will upgrade to a premier account and maybe he don't wanna do dat. And I don't blame him.

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• VAMs4U2BuyHere Posts: 304

  June 23, 2005 12:09AM

  If you paid with a credit card to somebody who doesn't take credit cards because they don't have a "Premier" paypal account, it will show up as unclaimed. This "forces" the receiver to upgrade their account, subsequently allowing paypal to steal a little of their money on every transaction, or refund the payment if they don't upgrade. There may be other reasons for unclaimed, this is the only one I'm sure of.

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• kryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭

  June 23, 2005 12:15AM

  I have also seen that when the payment is sent from an unsecured address?

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  June 23, 2005 12:15AM

  Here are more facts: I have around $300 in my Paypal account, so I just transferred $25 to the seller. Any other thoughts?

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• Smittys Posts: 9,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 23, 2005 12:17AM

  It could also mean the guy has not accepted payment yet, so it's still there yet unclaimed

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• K6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭

  June 23, 2005 12:21AM

  You'll see unclaimed for the following reasons:
  
  You used an unconfirmed address and the seller has his preferences set to prompt whether or not to accept it
  
  You made an error in the email address of the seller
  
  The seller has a personal account and you used a credit card
  
  From the comments so far, I suspect it may be reason number 2. Carefully check and make sure you sent it to the right email. If you did, you can cancel the payment and send it to the right address.

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  June 23, 2005 12:43AM

  Thanks for all of the thoughts. When I looked at the listing further, I noticed that the seller had another email address from the one that I originally sent the money to. Maybe he forgot to update it in the system or something. Anyway, I cancelled the other payment, and I sent the payment to the new address that I found. I sure hope he does not neg me. I wrote him an email explaining what happened, so I hope he understands what went on.

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  Didn't wanna get me no trade
  Never want to be like papa
  Working for the boss every night and day
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• K6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭

  June 23, 2005 12:54AM

  Log into your PayPal account. In the summary, if your second payment is unclaimed, it will show that. If it is, I think it would be a good idea to call your seller to straighten it out.

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  June 23, 2005 1:37AM

  K6-- thanks. It now shows as "completed"

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  Didn't wanna get me no trade
  Never want to be like papa
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• K6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭

  June 23, 2005 2:40AM

  That does it then. Another satisfied customer!

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• KurtHorn Posts: 1,382 ✭

  June 23, 2005 2:58AM

  Another reason that a payment can be shown as unclaimed is that the person you have sent money to does not have a PayPal account.

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