...and hopefully it won't be me...
To make a long backstory short, I was on eBay looking for a video game that has been out of print for a few years now and I wasn't finding it in any store or their websites. I found a seller who was offering the game for free shipping with a fairly low starting bid. I placed my maximum bid, and won the auction with the max bid I had placed.
That was June 16th. Right after I won, I paid with Paypal through eBay's "Pay Now" option in the invoice I got. I used an eCheck because I didn't have enough funds in Paypal itself. The eCheck would clear June 19th. Whatever, I thought. At least I don't have to drive around looking for it anymore.
June 19th I log in to chec and see if payment had cleared and the seller had shipped, only to discover that my payment had been canceled. The seller left no notes as to why it was canceled, and when I logged in to Paypal itself the entire payment was refunded to my Paypal balance instead of my bank account.
I asked for help on the eBay forums and they mostly said the same thing: rate all 1 stars on the DSR's and leave a neg explaining what happened. Said I could also file an INR if I needed to.
I didn't want to do that (the seller is relatively new but has 100% feedback as a seller and buyer, and the FBs for selling are pretty recent) because that'd ruin them as a seller, so I popped into the Paypal forums to see if there was anyting there that could help. Some users posted about Paypal having a glitch where it cancels payments made through Pay Now in eBay invoices, and suggested using the Send Money tab in my Paypal account instead to pay.
Okay, I thought. Let's try that. So I did. Instead, I got an error message not a minute later:
'This user is unable to receive payment at this time.'
All right...what does that mean?, I ask myself. I can't pay for my auction and will now face getting an NPB because I somehow can't pay them?
I've tried emailing them but haven't gotten a response, even though this seller has been active the past few days leaving FB for a couple other buyers. I was going to give them until Monday before deciding to leave negative FB and looking for this game elsewhere ( I actually spotted it at a game store two towns over when I was out this past Wednesday and was grumbling about how it shows up now, after I had won the auction...I might just give them a call and ask them to hold it for me or something and go get it).
Anyone else have any ideas about what is going on? I don't think this is a scammer, because they don't have a cent of my cash. The problem seems to be that I can't pay them.
Just trying to save the both of us here....
To make a long backstory short, I was on eBay looking for a video game that has been out of print for a few years now and I wasn't finding it in any store or their websites. I found a seller who was offering the game for free shipping with a fairly low starting bid. I placed my maximum bid, and won the auction with the max bid I had placed.
That was June 16th. Right after I won, I paid with Paypal through eBay's "Pay Now" option in the invoice I got. I used an eCheck because I didn't have enough funds in Paypal itself. The eCheck would clear June 19th. Whatever, I thought. At least I don't have to drive around looking for it anymore.
June 19th I log in to chec and see if payment had cleared and the seller had shipped, only to discover that my payment had been canceled. The seller left no notes as to why it was canceled, and when I logged in to Paypal itself the entire payment was refunded to my Paypal balance instead of my bank account.
I asked for help on the eBay forums and they mostly said the same thing: rate all 1 stars on the DSR's and leave a neg explaining what happened. Said I could also file an INR if I needed to.
I didn't want to do that (the seller is relatively new but has 100% feedback as a seller and buyer, and the FBs for selling are pretty recent) because that'd ruin them as a seller, so I popped into the Paypal forums to see if there was anyting there that could help. Some users posted about Paypal having a glitch where it cancels payments made through Pay Now in eBay invoices, and suggested using the Send Money tab in my Paypal account instead to pay.
Okay, I thought. Let's try that. So I did. Instead, I got an error message not a minute later:
'This user is unable to receive payment at this time.'
All right...what does that mean?, I ask myself. I can't pay for my auction and will now face getting an NPB because I somehow can't pay them?
I've tried emailing them but haven't gotten a response, even though this seller has been active the past few days leaving FB for a couple other buyers. I was going to give them until Monday before deciding to leave negative FB and looking for this game elsewhere ( I actually spotted it at a game store two towns over when I was out this past Wednesday and was grumbling about how it shows up now, after I had won the auction...I might just give them a call and ask them to hold it for me or something and go get it).
Anyone else have any ideas about what is going on? I don't think this is a scammer, because they don't have a cent of my cash. The problem seems to be that I can't pay them.
Just trying to save the both of us here....
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