QUICK....HELP....Paypal question.

[NIE]

Hi,

I have seen something I really want on ebay and I'm new to that sort of thing.

I set up a paypal account and I don't have enough funds in my paypal account. Will paypal still pay the seller from my account?

Does that make any sense?

A x

 

[clairescunny55]

if you pay by paypal but you havent got any funds, then they will take the money from your bank acount to pay the seller, if that makes sense lol

 

[NIE]

Thanks. That's what I thought. xxx

 

[Laura_James&Amber]

Paypal take whats called an e-cheque. They transfer the money from your bank account to your paypal account and then onto the other persons account. It will probably take 3 or 4 days to clear, it works the same as if you were paying a normal cheque into your bank account. Hope that makes sense! (I'm not very good at explaining things like that!)

 

[daftscotslass]

If you have a card set up it will take it from the card before your bank account. E-cheques can actually take up to 10 days to clear, I received one recently and it took a fortnight to clear. Go easy on your seller if you do pay by e-cheque, I ended up having to send an email every other day to the buyer to tell them it hadn't cleared yet because they were demanding to know why I hadn't sent their item even though I didn't have the money yet!