So I'm going through my e-mail and there is some "changes to your paypal account" thing in my inbox...i open it up, and here's the contents:
Starting 10/23/2011, money from payments you receive will be placed in a pending balance for up to 21 days. By doing this, we're making sure that there's enough money in your account to cover potential refunds or claims.
Even though you can't access the money right away, please ship orders quickly and communicate with your customers. After 21 days, you can withdraw money from each payment as long as the customer hasn't filed a dispute, chargeback, claim, return, or reversal.
The money may be available sooner if:
We can confirm that the item was delivered.
Your buyer leaves positive feedback. (Applies only to eBay items)
This change isn't necessarily permanent. We'll review your account every 35 days and re-evaluate if we should continue to hold your payments. If we decide to stop holding payments, we'll email you to let you know.
Why are my payments being held?
We reviewed your account and determined that there's a relatively higher than average risk of future transaction issues (such as claims, or chargebacks, or payment reversals). We understand that it may be inconvenient to have your payments temporarily held but please know that we didn't make this decision lightly.
Before deciding to hold payments, we consider many factors. These factors include account and transaction activity, the rate of customer disputes, the type of business a seller runs, average delivery timeframes, customer satisfaction, performance and history.
I had to laugh because: I haven't ebayed anything in ages. Haven't used paypal for any sales in a long, long, time. Never ever had any buyer complaints, chargebacks, whatever (ebay feedback is 100% positive, too, lol)...lol....The only thing I've used paypal for in the past like...3 months? At least? Is to buy some station cash on my everquest account. Maybe that's risky behavior, right there. :P Thus I can only assume that it's a general thing and they are doing it to as many people as they think they can get away with (or everyone, who knows). Anyone else get this recently? Maybe they are "gearing up for the holidays" or something?
