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Old 25-02-2005, 00:09   #16
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
paypal is ****e anyway, I don't have any inclination to use it whatsoever.
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Old 25-02-2005, 00:14   #17
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I have to say I logged straight onto my Paypal account just to make sure nothing dodgy had occured
Just did the same myself, thankfully all is well with no activity in the last year.
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
I was going to set up a paypal account untill I relaised I would have to give my bank details and me being me I ain't a good banker. (hmm I did spell that right ? ) Paypal seems to have a lot of problems. Funds not going where they should, funds going missing, continuous removal of funds by persons unknown and so on. Anyway the upshot is i decided not to open the account.

One of the admin on a network i co-own decided to use paypal to pay his shell accounts on. Well the hassle !! To cap paypal allowed 4 transactions from the shell providers that weren't legal. Apparent;y the shell providers do not like paypal either, they said they were doing it to show how WEAK the system actually is. He now uses no-chex, another system i refuse to conetemplate.

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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
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I don't know how paypal works, but doesn't a maestro transaction require your authorization for every transaction? (i.e. can you not stop the money being taken from your bank account)
You cannot set up a continuous payment authority from a Maestro, Solo or Visa Debit card (as you should set up a direct debit instead). All transactions on all cards require approval, but the actions of going into your secure paypal account and creating the transaction indicate your approval of the transaction (in a CNP-Cardholder Not Present) environment.
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
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You cannot set up a continuous payment authority from a Maestro, Solo or Visa Debit card (as you should set up a direct debit instead).
Are you sure?
Nildram (my ISP) were able to set up my monthly payment on a Maestro card by me filling in a form on their site.
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
seems to have been resolved. the seller has refunded my money, he had no idea where this transaction came from either. slight problem though, the £430 has not been taken from my bank account but the sellerhas credited my paypal account with it....

think i will leave it in my paypal account until all this blows over *scared*
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Are you sure?
Nildram (my ISP) were able to set up my monthly payment on a Maestro card by me filling in a form on their site.
i think maybe what they do is hold your details on record, and then when it comes to payment time they simply drag their details up from their database and do a CNP transaction?

much like paypal seems to do...
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just removed my bank account and credit card from my paypal account as I hardly ever use it. when I opened netscape and went to paypal.com it already has preinserted the email address and password of her indoors's paypal account - scarey!
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
So your paypal account has £430 in it and paypal do not have your cc info, neither has the money been taken from your account (yet).

Cancelling cards might sound like it stops money being taken, but sometimes they (banks) still let through things that are in the pipeline.

So you can either be honest & wait to see if paypal take the money back or take it & run....
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Re: paypal - urgent advice needed
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Are you sure?
Nildram (my ISP) were able to set up my monthly payment on a Maestro card by me filling in a form on their site.
As has been said above these are probably new CNP transactions each month.
I'm sure that if you are using HSBC merchant services to process cards then what I said is fact.
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So your paypal account has £430 in it and paypal do not have your cc info, neither has the money been taken from your account (yet).

Cancelling cards might sound like it stops money being taken, but sometimes they (banks) still let through things that are in the pipeline.

So you can either be honest & wait to see if paypal take the money back or take it & run....
Being as you have reported this stuff, they card issuer will review the card transactions in the next week or so and so will paypal. You will be best leaving these funds there and letting this work itself out (and probably fessing up if it does not). After all there could be someone else out there seriously out of pocket if you take the money and run. You would not like to be in that position would you?
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seems to have been resolved. the seller has refunded my money, he had no idea where this transaction came from either. slight problem though, the £430 has not been taken from my bank account but the sellerhas credited my paypal account with it....
SWEET!!!

Lucky son of a... Wish i was that lucky.
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SWEET!!!

Lucky son of a... Wish i was that lucky.
i have withdrawn the money to my bank account, until this all gets sorted, taht way if/when it has to be paid back to paypal i can at least make a small amount of interest on the error

still dont know where this money is coming from though. I cancelled my direct debit ASAP with paypal last night when i was cancelling my cards too. probably will get some angry bailiff around soon to take my kneecaps away
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Word to the wise Quimby - dont make cheque's your butt cant cash.
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this situation gets more interesting day by day. quick update:

the direct debit of £430 was taken from my account, however hsbc did a chargeback of this so that it's ok and hasnt actually been taken. paypal then credited my bank account with £430 from my paypal account, which is now -£430. This is because a payment from paypal to my paypal account is being held, which will be confirmed and allowed to go ahead if i re-verify my account in the next 7 days, they are sending out some code on a piece of paper to do this.

anyway, helpful as hsbc were, i am washing my hands of them. i have to wait until next wednesday for my debit card to arrive, this is completely unacceptable to me. so, i am applying for a new account at lloyds tsb and am going to close my hsbc one. 2 weeks without a current account makes life very difficult...
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What did HSBC do wrong? It was Paypal surely ???
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What did HSBC do wrong? It was Paypal surely ???
that's true, but hsbc also said that it would be two working days to get my new card from when i cancelled it, but now it wont be here until next week. that's the unacceptable thing...
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