adelaidejane
July 10th, 2007, 10:06 PM
Okay, so here's the deal.
I'm checking out cloth diapers on eBay. Most sellers prefer to use PayPal as the form of payment which, as I understand it, is a special type of funds transferral set up by eBay but as a separate... entity thingy I guess.
Shroomy had signed up for PayPal when he opened the account a couple of years ago, but he hadn't actually ever used it, so he doesn't know much about it. Hence why I'm posing this question to yuzall.
When I decided to start bidding on diapers and stuff, I organised to transfer $50 into PayPal - I think. There was like a button that says "Add Funds", and to my understanding, you put money from your bank account into your PayPal account, and that's how you pay the seller. So I added the $50 last Wednesday, and it said it would take until July 9th to clear. Fair enough.
So today is July 10th and it hasn't cleared yet. But I won an auction, and wanted to pay as soon as I could - or at least look into how the paying of the things work. So I went through all the "Make a Payment" screens, etc, to see what I would have to do, and like one of the last pages said "Make payment from:" with a drop-down selection menu, with our bank account details highlighted. I don't remember if I went through the menu to see what other choices there were, but I remember being confused because I thought that having PayPal meant that my bank account wouldn't be involved at all.
In the end, I went "stuff it" and clicked yes. It was only about $12 altogether so it's not going to break the bank (this week). It doesn't show up as a transaction on our bank statement, but it shows up on the PayPal account page... and I'm a tad confused as to what actually happened.
I took some screen shots to hopefully help a bit. This one is what comes up when I open the PayPal account:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h232/sjep1983/paypal1.jpg
Down in the recent activity section, that top one (with the -$12 whatever) wasn't there before I made the payment, so obviously that pertains to my purchase. And see how the transferring of the $50 hasn't cleared yet?? Yeah.
Then I clicked on the "details" bit for that top activity, and this screen comes up:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h232/sjep1983/paypal2.jpg
(text shrunk to fit everything on the screen.)
...
I am officially confused. I really wanna know what's happened, and I think Shroomy really wants to know too... :oops: If you know PayPal really well, can you PLEASE tell me what I've done, whether I've done it wrong, and the meaning of liff?
I'm checking out cloth diapers on eBay. Most sellers prefer to use PayPal as the form of payment which, as I understand it, is a special type of funds transferral set up by eBay but as a separate... entity thingy I guess.
Shroomy had signed up for PayPal when he opened the account a couple of years ago, but he hadn't actually ever used it, so he doesn't know much about it. Hence why I'm posing this question to yuzall.
When I decided to start bidding on diapers and stuff, I organised to transfer $50 into PayPal - I think. There was like a button that says "Add Funds", and to my understanding, you put money from your bank account into your PayPal account, and that's how you pay the seller. So I added the $50 last Wednesday, and it said it would take until July 9th to clear. Fair enough.
So today is July 10th and it hasn't cleared yet. But I won an auction, and wanted to pay as soon as I could - or at least look into how the paying of the things work. So I went through all the "Make a Payment" screens, etc, to see what I would have to do, and like one of the last pages said "Make payment from:" with a drop-down selection menu, with our bank account details highlighted. I don't remember if I went through the menu to see what other choices there were, but I remember being confused because I thought that having PayPal meant that my bank account wouldn't be involved at all.
In the end, I went "stuff it" and clicked yes. It was only about $12 altogether so it's not going to break the bank (this week). It doesn't show up as a transaction on our bank statement, but it shows up on the PayPal account page... and I'm a tad confused as to what actually happened.
I took some screen shots to hopefully help a bit. This one is what comes up when I open the PayPal account:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h232/sjep1983/paypal1.jpg
Down in the recent activity section, that top one (with the -$12 whatever) wasn't there before I made the payment, so obviously that pertains to my purchase. And see how the transferring of the $50 hasn't cleared yet?? Yeah.
Then I clicked on the "details" bit for that top activity, and this screen comes up:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h232/sjep1983/paypal2.jpg
(text shrunk to fit everything on the screen.)
...
I am officially confused. I really wanna know what's happened, and I think Shroomy really wants to know too... :oops: If you know PayPal really well, can you PLEASE tell me what I've done, whether I've done it wrong, and the meaning of liff?