w00t... I think PayPal messed up!

Josh-S
Josh-S Posts: 160
edited April 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
But this time in my favor!

2 days ago I won a bit for the RTi4's. I paid him threw the checkout as useual. paypal used $19 from my acount and $180 some from my confermed bank acount! The transfer was an istant transfer, But get this... It wasnt removed from my bank!!! :eek: I have web banking acsses and I can view all the transactions. Today 2 days later it still wasnt removed from my acount! And in my paypal acount it shows that he recived his payment and everything is COMPLETED!


So, whats your take on this? Did paypal mess up in my favor for once? Or can this come back to byte me in the rear later?
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2005
    ummmmm. well Friday was Veterans Day (no banking transactions take place on holidays) . so il bet you'll see it deducted from your account on Mon or Tues. I can bet you ain't gettin it for free bucko. ;)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited November 2005
    Milliseconds of genius here.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    Milliseconds of genius here.

    *Stands in awe*

    I'm not sure I've ever experienced that much at one time before!!
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    Isnt it all electronic? I had payed for other items that friday threw paypal and they were deducted from my banck acount.

    Either way I will keep you all informed. Or should I close my acount now online! That way they cant neill me! :p
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2005
    Josh-S send me your RTi4's when they arrive at your place. so you don't get nailed for anything bad.. i'll take the hit for ya. afterall. that's what friends are for, no? :D
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2005
    It's all electronic, but even the online banking stuff is usually delayed by holidays, because it has to be confirmed by real poeple and all that jazz. Trust me, it'll go through.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2005
    funny how people can think that, because it's all electronic, it happens instantly...

    on a holiday weekend?!!? even if it weren't, depending on the time of the transaction, it may post the next day, meaning you wouldn't see it reflected until saturday, or even monday, _normally_. Trust me, if there's one thing Paypal will NEVER FORGET, it's to take your money at every opportunity
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    nadams wrote:
    Trust me, if there's one thing Paypal will NEVER FORGET, it's to take your money at every opportunity

    Truer words were never spoken, I'm sure.
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    Jstas wrote: »
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited November 2005
    You're on the hook.
    Michael ;)
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited November 2005
    Before pay-pal became a e-bay company, when you purchased something it would come right out of your account, Now ive seen it take 3-4 days to show up in my bank account.. and factor in the weekend, give it a few days.. pay-pal didn't become big by giving money away :D
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    so, Simply put I can spend say, oh iI dont know $5,000 wait for the recipitant to recive it then close my bank acount and move to the UK before they know what hapened? :eek:
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited November 2005
    You'd have to do better than that... They will find you. Besides, if you're purchasing something, you would have to wait for it to be delivered first, then move all your crap to another country, while at the same time changing your name and fingerprinting. Good luck!
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    ROFL You'd hafta hoodwink 'em outta a lot more than that to justify a move like that! LOL
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    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited November 2005
    Yall remind me not to sell this cat anything when I decide to start selling.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2005
    It will probably still come out of your account. If it doesn't though, If it were me, I would want to make sure that I paid for what I bought. But that is just me. I always give back money if a clerk gives me too much change back. I always bring it to the attention of the sales person if I feel they forgot to charge me for something. I want any and all discounts I am due but I don't want something for nothing (unless of course it is their intention to GIVE it to me).

    IMO if you are going to **** if/when you are shortchanged...You have no right to any windfall when you are on the other end. I'm not trying to be self-righteous here...it's just the way I think things should be.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    ^^ There is a stand up guy.

    *applaudes*
    George Grand wrote: »
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    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    read-alot wrote:
    Yall remind me not to sell this cat anything when I decide to start selling.


    lol, What are you gona be selling?
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  • read-alot
    read-alot Posts: 812
    edited November 2005
    Josh-S wrote:
    lol, What are you gona be selling?

    It will be things that I have paid for.
    My father is close to 80 years old and he would still today KICK my **** for trying to screw someone out of a dime.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited November 2005
    Now, I almost had the same reaction as you, read-alot. But if pay-pal has the transaction marked as completed, there's no reason to suspect that the seller is not being paid in full. This doesn't seem to me to be a case of someone to cheat the seller, but that the 'machine' used to pay the seller (pay-pal) forgot to charge the buyer. I don't think Josh-s is trying to get out of it, it just appears that pay-pal forgot to charge him (though that's a debated point as it makes sense what with the holiday and weekend they may charge him Monday).

    It is a question, though, if it's right to let pay-pal not charge him.
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    Guys, I'm not a riping off kinda guy! I work hard for my money and I know others do as well! Paypal is a multi million dollar buis. and if there out $180 then big whop! Its there end that messed it up so I dont care one bit. as long as the seller got his cash thats all that matters!...

    So we shal see in a day or 2. Either way I am a honist person! *most of the time... :D
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited November 2005
    What an **** clown.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2005
    To me it doesn't matter if it is a poor person or a Multi-billion dollar corp. If I owe them...I owe them. I TRY to be honest "ALL" of the time. I bet if it was "there end" that messed up and charged you $360 instead of $180 you would "care one bit".

    I'm out ...no point in arguing ethics on an internet forum...
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    http://www.paypalsucks.com/

    http://www.paypalwarning.com/

    I bet if these people could rip off paypal for $180 they would celibrate! Evrything hapens in this world for a reason... If this was ment to be then so be it! Perhaps paypal has bad carma...

    we'll see tomarow morning!
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  • whitetruk
    whitetruk Posts: 308
    edited November 2005
    hey some how i got $180 in my paypal account don`t tell anyone
    I thought it was fairly amusing also. The Polk Ogre doesn't always get 'it'
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  • Josh-S
    Josh-S Posts: 160
    edited November 2005
    shhh.. Count your blessings! Its gods whill :D
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited November 2005
    No bank processed on Friday, and only some banks process on Saturdays. You will be charged in Monday nights update and see the charge Tuesday morning.
    Never Forget
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2005
    Are you new to this whole "banking" thing? I make charges all the tiem that take up to a week to go through, and I never once am retarded enough to think they "forgot" about me. Pay for gas at the pump some time. They don't actually charge you for like 5 days. It's all "electronic", but it's just the way it is.

    If you want to keep fantasizing about htis, I'll bet you twice what you think you "stole" from Paypal that the money eventually gets taken out.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited November 2005
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    What an **** clown.

    exactly,

    is why pay-pal charges .30 cents + 2.9% of my hard earned money... to cover transaction fee's and loss.. this would just make it go higher. :rolleyes:
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited November 2005
    Yea, Paypal they suck, they want people to accept the idea of paying to move money. But dont go ripping them off, even if you can. I concur though they will catch up with your account.

    What gets me is it "costs" the same to move 10 or 10,000. But a huge difference in their "fee". They would say they have risk, but with all the verification process and account limits I dont buy it.

    RT1






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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2005
    reeltrouble1 wrote:
    What gets me is it "costs" the same to move 10 or 10,000. But a huge difference in their "fee". They would say they have risk, but with all the verification process and account limits I dont buy it.
    Ted, The problem is that the risk is real and any financial institution (which PayPal is) MUST get paid for taking that risk. Yes they may have verification processes but there are as many folks trying to rip their system off as there are credit cards frauds. It takes LOTS of legit transactions to just to recover a single $1,000 fraud loss. I don't use PayPal, not because I don't like them, but as a banker I tend to understand the risks of electronic funds transfers. As a society we are trading off a lot of risk for the sake of convenience.
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