Hi carly - by clearing did you mean the buyer paid with paypal e-cheque ? or did you wait until you transferred the paypal payment to your account? How you run your accounts is completely up to you of course, but as a rule a seller will send immediately upon paypal payment (unless it is an echeque which can take 3 - 7 days) IMO the buyer should not be kept waiting for the money to go into your account as it is as good as there once it is in paypal. Just a thought, and perhaps you did not quite understand how it all worked, don't mean to step on any toes, but this early on in your selling career you don't want to get marked down for delivery times. Also - C&S can now be paid via paypal, so sellers who may have had to wait to afford to send can do so straight away.