I deleted the second voucher they sent me. I'm not willing to get bitten again.

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@milo2oatis wrote:

My theories just went out the window. I decided to try it again & it worked. I bought something from the UK instead of AU. Maybe that makes a difference? Or maybe it was a time difference thing with the start date? So confused.

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Often the time difference does play a part. Everything seems to work on eBay time, which is US west coast time (PST). At the moment they are about 18hrs behind us. I know as far as selling goes, our monthly free listings reset at midnight, but the monthly selling limit doesn't reset until the evening of the 1st. It's hard to keep up with it sometimes!!!

Glad you managed to get it to work. Hopefully the others will have the same luck.

Tried again and got the same error message so I called PayPal on their 1800 number.  The person I spoke to put me on hold for a minute or two then came back and said that there was a problem with the voucher and he would escalate the matter and that my PayPal account would be credited with $10.  

About 20 minutes later, the $10 was in my account.  

That's not a bad outcome given it was never your money in the first place. Hopefully everyone else who had problems contacted them too. That's a lot of $10 they will credit accounts with. It might force them to be more careful in the future.

As an aside, I made a purchase yesterday using the 20% off thingy for some technology sellers that finishes today. I was a bit worried at first whether it would work after these glitches with the PayPal/eBay vouchers. It went through OK and I saved $37 which wasn't to be sneezed at! Actually, I save far more than that because it was a fair bit cheaper ($100) than what it was to buy at DSE locally (and DSE on eBay too after they put their price back up right when I hit the BIN button!).

My $10 buyer whose voucher bouncd last week paid yesterday. Presumably the voucher worked

I've had the voucher sitting in my mail box as well as the second letter but had never tried either of them.  This morning I found something I wanted no matter if it worked or not but was really pleased it went through without a hitch.  I use my paypal account weekly when my few auctions finish on a Sunday night so it's not just for those who haven't used paypal for ages.  Thank you paypal.

I wanna know where I can get me one of these vouchers so I can get a free $10 for making a 20 second phone call. That would have to be one of the highest rates of pay in the country!!

If I got $10 for free like that, I'd be transferring it out of PayPal and not use it to buy anything. Prove a point that they shouldn't just be giving money away like that.