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<p>[QUOTE="sunshineium, post: 1244991, member: 31150"]The ebay/paypal connection is pretty poor. Here's what happened to me...</p><p><br /></p><p>I sold something a few weeks ago for like $8 on ebay. I got an e-mail from the winner saying that he somehow paid twice and could I please refund one of the transactions, paypal and ebay weren't cooperating. When I logged on to paypal, sure enough, there were two transactions from him at the same minute and twice as much money as there should be. I refunded one of the transactions, which in turn marked the payment as unsent on ebay and prompted ebay sending the guy a message about paying. When I marked the item as sent, I got a message from ebay, telling me that I shouldn't send items before receiving payment. It ended up being a totally ridiculous. </p><p><br /></p><p>Moral of the/my story, the two don't even pretend to work together. I'm surprised it's not exploited more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sunshineium, post: 1244991, member: 31150"]The ebay/paypal connection is pretty poor. Here's what happened to me... I sold something a few weeks ago for like $8 on ebay. I got an e-mail from the winner saying that he somehow paid twice and could I please refund one of the transactions, paypal and ebay weren't cooperating. When I logged on to paypal, sure enough, there were two transactions from him at the same minute and twice as much money as there should be. I refunded one of the transactions, which in turn marked the payment as unsent on ebay and prompted ebay sending the guy a message about paying. When I marked the item as sent, I got a message from ebay, telling me that I shouldn't send items before receiving payment. It ended up being a totally ridiculous. Moral of the/my story, the two don't even pretend to work together. I'm surprised it's not exploited more.[/QUOTE]
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