I added Paymate as an payment option about 3 months ago, and I had almost forgotten about it until recently, when a buyer actually bought an item with it.

And as it turned out, even this one transaction never eventuated, as at first I thought the buyer had paid with an echeque, as it uses the same egg timer icon as the echeque icon. Very confusing, and it was only after about 4 days when the moneys hadn't cleared that I checked it again with the mouse cursor, that I saw that they had paid with Paymate and not by echeque.

So then, after a bit of a panic, I raced over to Paymate to check if the funds were in there, only to find that for some reason, my account wasn't properly activated and no moneys had been received, although I had been able to tick the Paymate box on all my listings, which supposedly, you should not be able to do unless your account is in fact properly activated. Go figure.

Anyway, the buyer was good about it and we just mutually cancelled the transaction, but it could have got ugly, and I decided at that time to cancel the Paymate option until it was fixed, which I have now done. I have to say though, I was a bit annoyed with the Paymate rep who refused to concede to my belief that, if my account wasn't properly activated, that I should not have been able to trade on ebay with it in the first place, and/or, why I wasn't contacted by email to advise me that my account wasn't activated .

Bit off a worry