just bought a psp on ebay for 202 all in 30 postage 10 insurance
then got this reply when tried to pay
VIA PAYPAL WANNA BE SURE BE FOR I DO ANYTHING

This transaction exceeds your remaining Sending Limit. Please complete your enrolment in the Expanded Use Programme. You will then be allowed to send more money.


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iits a wired looking yellow lock on the bottom right hand side offset with lines in it
????bottom of the locks not straight looks dodgy

 

What kind of Paypal account do you have?

Cam

 

sounds dodgey to me as to get verified on ebay it says you need to verify your phone number and your account, they verify the account by putting 2 small deposits in and then you enter the amounts into the section on your paypal account

 

The basic Paypal account has a limit on funds you can send and receive. Where did the email originate from telling you to upgrade (check email headers to see if its a genuine PayPal email)?

 

we had to do this as well

 

Not dodgy. When you register on Paypal you are limited to only sending £500, so once you have sent that you need to become verified. I am in this situation now myself! When you register they charge $1.95 to your bank account and on your statement it has PAYMENT TO PAYPAL followed by 4 digits. YOu need these 4 digits to enter as your expanded user code to become verified. Once verified you have no sending limits as it is just taken out your bank like direct debit (again you have to fill a form out on paypals site for this)

Me being a twat never got round to entering the 4 digit code, now can't find the bank statement with the code on it, and the bank won't send me a copy of an old statement unless I pay em a fiver And you can't have the code sent again from paypal unless you use Mastercard or American Express (which I use neither)

 

this was in the email reply thrush
The price is in British Pound. 5% service and handling fee will be charged for cancel order

how they gonna charge me lol
i had a visa problem with them theres not mine so used a debit card next time
i thought debit cards where direct payment not like visa no waiting days

so ive got to dig out my fooking bank statements now
CHEERS FOR YOUR HELP
better to be safe than sorry with shit like this
that why i never use online banking "phone bank rules"
when you can understand wot there saying so of them
soo can you say that again please

 

Just went on my online banking and had a look there and I can't go back to see statements from last year FFS, guess i'm gonna have to pay the bank the fiver and order the fooking statement

 

lol worse than you i shred all my statements visa and bills and alike after
2 months and then burn then cant be sloppy this day and age
so im fooked AMAZON RIVER rainy day NO FOOKING PADDLE
let the games begin

 

B.C - totally agree - if in doubt with eBay and Paypal, ask away mate, like you say, better safe than sorry!

My problem is now I can't buy anything using paypal untill I get verified and my sending limit's revoked - even tho I have already added a direct debit bank account!

Plus I also can't seem to pay ebay - every time I bid on something I get a pop up from ebay reminding me I have seller fee's to pay, but it says "you must makea payment of £0.00 to eBay" - why make a payment of fuck all??????

 

if i rang up the phone bank wonder could they Access the first payment i made
to paypal ????? might be worth a try all records should be recorded ?
am i right ???

 

Worth a shot BC

 

lol didnt work they said ring paypal
FOOKING BANKS said ive only made 4 payments to paypal
last on was in jan 5th
ive got 20 buys no probs on ebay yellow star
pisses me off you try to buy things easy the
hastle just builds up and up

 

gonna run it via visa payment instead
at least if i send them my details SHIT happens its got cover for £500

nothing ventured nothing gained

will see wot happens i sure LLOYDS tsb will be the first email

 

sent the payment via visa
this was the sellers address

Kwok Chin Fung Steve
Rm 901 CATIC Bldg, 44 Tsun Yip Street
Kwun Tong, Kowloon NA
Hong Kong

there may be trouble ahead lol
but hes got over 5000 sales on ebay
will put a pin in this thread SEE WOT happens

 

hey i got the same message i had thought f=ck that and payed by chque

 

i thought i was playing clever via import duties added on via paying on the jap site
NOT
RANG the bank up got a BLONDE from katmandu
can you repeat that please "WHY YOU NO LISTEN"

ring this number 2 morrow debit card service

 

The message itself tho is not a scam - it is the way Paypal work. They impose a £500 sending limit untill you verify your account with them, then you are unlimited on what you can send using their service. So if I had entered my expanded use number that showed up on my bank statement (like my bro did for exampl) when I got it, I would still be able to use Paypal now, and not have a note come up saying "you only have £2.88 of you sending limit left - please verify account to continue"

That's nothing to do with any seller on ebay, that is purely Paypal. The same would happen if you tried to pay your eBay fee's using Paypal but had less in your sending limit that you need to pay eBay (is you have £2.88 left and you need to pay eBay say, £6.52)

Nothing to do with a seller or a scam...

 

cheers for your time thrush NICE ONE
but you would think moneys there payments ontime JOBS A GOOD ONE
good user account i agree with the service security but
pain in the arse for loyal ie ebay users
no bad hits on sales ITS NOT LIKE IT SAYS ON THE TIN EASY TO USE
allways hindering small print :blonde:

 

well least you sorted payment for your psp after all that

Ask the seller to mark it as sample rather than Gift, don't quote me on it but customs let mine through np's no charges, but the other day a M8 of my father in law got his and it was marked as gift the courier then handed him the parcel and releived him of £75

Soo fookin glad they didn't do that to me

 

NOO FOOKING chance im doing that lol if so return to sender
i work in shipping if it gets that bad will give a flip flop my ££
wait 5 days till the ship comes in
£75 on top of the price