Sold an item a couple of hours ago. The item in ebay shows as paid. I did not get an email from paypal so I checked my account. Nothing....no record of the payment. If I click 'See paypal transaction' from the drop down on the item I get a 'cant find transaction' error
So how long do I wait ??? I have sold other items since and got emails and payment for those have shown in the paypal account !
Joe paypal are not a bank and not affiliated with, as far as I'm aware, with any bank in australia. So I think the two issues are completely different things.
Paypal does not run off Westpacs internal systems. Its two completely different companies.
They are not even having the same issues as Westpac.
I get that PayPal systems etc aren't the same, and that their (PP's) current issues are independent of the banks at the moment, but in my previous post where I said that it was plausible that bank system issues can affect PayPal payments, it wasn't on the assumption the systems are the same.
It's because they interact and communicate with each other when a payment funded by a credit card is made. Or at least, they are supposed to, and if one is down, information can't be exchanged and/or verified.
I don't keep ANY money in my Paypal account and I've seen others here say the same thing. As soon as someone makes a payment, I withdraw to my bank account immedidately (Paypal don't charge for doing this) ..... not having Paypal take advantage of my funds when they already take a % of my sale when I've done all the hard labour of listing.
If I need to do a partial refund for overcharged postage, the amount is taken from my bank account.
If I need to pay for something with Paypal, then I have a choice whether it comes from my bank account (depending on balance at the time) or my credit card.
There were a few hiccups over the weekend with Paypal payments not showing in my account, however, they eventually appeared at which time, I transferred immediately to my bank account.
