I am not a new seller. I’ve been selling for several years using Paypal. Today I received two sales paid via Paypal and both were put on hold [URL removed]
“We’ve placed the money on hold because we believe this transaction may involve a higher than usual risk. The money has been added to your on hold balance. It’ll be available once we can confirm that your customer has received the goods or services.”
I’ve been selling the same items and have had maybe 1 “hold” per year over the course of several years (mostly until Paypal could confirm the shipping address).
It’s just so strange that both transactions were put on hold today. I think I may cancel them and refund the money since they are both flagged as “higher risk”. And is Paypal now monitoring delivery since they state they won’t release my funds until delivery is confirmed (up to 21 days).
Has anyone else had this happen recently? I hope it’s not the “new norm” with Paypal.
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MommyOf2QTsWaxWorks Reputation: 22 See MommyOf2QTsWaxWorks' booth |
Thanks for the replies.
I did call Paypal and spoke with a very friendly man but he really didn’t have a good explanation as to why 3 of my sales were put on hold. He said he could see my account has been in good standing since 2000 and they were most likely random holds to make sure I am doing everything correctly. (Really?? Don’t you think they would have known before now if I was not.) Anyway, he also mentioned it was odd 3 were flagged in such a short time span and I will get my money within 24 hours after tracking shows delivered.
I have had 2 more sales since then and they were not put on hold so I’m going to take him at his word that these were just random. But still a rather unnerving occurrence for a 20 year Paypal user.
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MommyOf2QTsWaxWorks Reputation: 22 See MommyOf2QTsWaxWorks' booth |
Have you called PP to ask about this? Based on your record, it shouldn’t be YOU that is the risk. Maybe the addresses or customers are sketchy and they don’t want false chargebacks. I’d call and talk to them, but yes, cancel if you worry about it.
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BookbinEtc Reputation: 1322 See BookbinEtc's booth |
It does not sound like they are saying the sale itself is risky per se.
I don’t know, has it been a little bit since you had a sale….maybe PayPal is getting a little more careful this way, though they should not since u r a long time seller and user of their service. I’m just trying to think of something that makes the slightest bit of sense.
Please let us know what PP says if you happen to contact them.
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EmpressDepot Reputation: 6829 See EmpressDepot's booth |
Yes, I have the same thing happening.
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SouthRenBeauty Reputation: 20 See SouthRenBeauty's booth |
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Paypal is becoming like Ebay.. a pain in the ass!!
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PENNYLANE_TREASURES_ Reputation: 166 See PENNYLANE_TREASURES_'s booth |
I haven’t used this service for six months now and I’m absolutely happy, guys, I advise you to get off this stuff too. I generally immediately withdraw to the card from the brokerage account, it seems to me that this is more convenient. In short, here I checked the information on this website [URL removed] , it turns out that there are so many things that I do not know, it’s just tin. In general, I went to study.
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