Is there anyway to prevent someone paying you via "e-check" on paypal? In settings maybe? That has to be the most annoying thing ever when you expect an instant payment and you have to wait for it to clear a week later. I've gotten two in the last month (not on this board). Do I have to stipulate that you have to make a instant payment now as well? If I wanted to wait a week I'd say mail me a friggin' check! sorry venting-carry on..

Chris

I hope so! I just had one and it is miserable waiting for it to clear!

yeah these suck.

i paid for an order to secret base with one cause i checked the button by accident, took like 2 extra weeks

Go on your profile. Go on payment receiving preference. Check the block payment by echeck. It's worded real weird but it seems to work.

Apparently I'm not the only one. I think it's incredibly rude in this day an age of electronic money transfers to make the recipient wait a week to receive money. Especially on things like a "buy it now" auction like ebay. Buy it now means buy it now, not next week. Anyhow I discovered how to prevent receiving payments. Go to the profile tab. Under selling preferences click payment receiving preferences. Scroll down halfway and you can block payments via echeck. In fact they'll get a prompt from paypal that they need to add a credit/debit card to their paypal account to complete the purchase. YES! AWESOME!

Oh so that also answers they question of paying via echeck. I had to get a new bank card because of identity theft I forgot to update paypal with the new card. I went to pay for something last summer and it did the stupid echeck taking over a week to clear on both ends (so two weeks). So make sure you have your current cards on file.

Chris

I accidentally did it to 2 'brainers this past month. It was because I got a new debit card, & Paypal couldn't figure out (or notify me) of the situation. I know it sucks, because I had to wait on one before, too.

My GF just had the same problem buying some clothes from Japan. I set her up with an Ebay account and her Paypal and all that. She won the auction, and paid straight away. She was kinda puzzled that there was an hourglass icon instead of the dollar sign. After digging around I figured out it was because she hadn't added a credit card. At the end of the day, if you verify yer bank account and all that, why do you have to add a credit card as well? I understand the fraud angle, but logging on to ebay, then paying and having to log into paypal, surely that would be enough? Besides, not everybody has credit cards.

I just accidentally did this too! I had no idea that this was even an option! Like someone else said, I think I pushed the wrong button too. I agree...it's a lame form of payment.