E-Bay, PayPal Rant...

[Bloozcat]

What is it with E-Bay and PayPal?

I was awaiting the end of an auction last night, and as I was entering my bid (at the very last second, of course), I get this message that I either don't have a PayPal account, or it's not "linked" to my E-bay account. What's up with that?

Almost every transaction I've completed in the last several years, I've done with PayPal. At the end of each auction a prompt from PayPal comes up that assumes that I'm going to complete the auction payment using PayPal (which I usually click on). My PayPal account isn't linked to my E-Bay account? What kind of crap is that? :flamemad:

So, I missed the opportunity to possibly win that auction. My max bid was higher than the winning bid, but because I don't know what the winning bidder's max was, I'll never know if I could have won that auction or not.

Before the next auction came up for a similar item, I clicked on the "link your PayPal account to your E-Bay account" prompt on the screen. OK, everthing in dodo land is suddenly cool. Now they recognize my PayPal account.

With E-Bay and PayPal being the same company now, you'd think that they'd be linked already. No wonder I hate PayPal so much...

This ever happen to anyone else?

(OK, rant over... )

 

[Robert]

Nope

 

[duhvoodooman]

This ever happen to anyone else?

Nope, just you. You've been singled out from among all of humanity to suffer this injustice. Bad karma, I'd guess....

Seriously, I've had good luck with PayPal, both on eBay and elsewhere. It's getting more and more broadly accepted, for sure.

 

[Bloozcat]

I don't have any trouble with the payment end (big surprise, they readily take my money), just with crap like I mentioned. In a similar vein, I've had E-bay bar me from auctions before with a message that the seller had done something to bar me. When I've contacted the seller, they've told me it was E-bay and not them.

I could understand, maybe, if I had a suspect feedback or credit rating, but with a 100% positive rating and stellar credit, that's not possible.

Registering a complaint with E-Bay isn't much use, either. It's is sort of like writing your complaint on a block of ice and setting it in the sun....

I would have to believe that it's the E-bay end more than the PayPal end. But that's of no comfort since they're the same company.

 

[Tone2TheBone]

That's weird. I've never had any problems with Ebay or Pay Pal.

 

[Bloozcat]

I guess it's just me, then. Me and my pal Murphy I guess.

 

[just strum]

I received an e-mail from PayPal the other day saying my e-mail address at e-bay and paypal didn't match and they put me on "limited funds" or some silly term like that. Other than that, no trouble so far.

 

[Bloozcat]

I'd watch that one, strum. Lot's of bogus PayPal e-mail scams going around.

 

[just strum]

I'd watch that one, strum. Lot's of bogus PayPal e-mail scams going around.

I went to my actual PayPal account to verify, and not through the link supplied by the e-mail. I thought the same thing when I first saw it.

 

[mrmudcat]

Forward those here [email protected]

If the email does not say your name like mr larry ------
or whatever it is bogus

 

[just strum]

That's exactly what mine said "mr larry ------"

Oh, I forgot to thank you for the guitars.