I need to vent. I just had to spend 20 min on the phone with ebay. Tried to buy a cat water/food dispenser from a seller. Used buy it now, paid through paypal, got an email with the transaction #. 1 minute later I get an email from ebay that my payment didn't go through, try again. So I go and do it again. Pay through paypal, first transaction was gone, get an email with transaction #, followed by another email from ebay about payment not going through. I check sellers page, says paypal accepted. Check my paypal,,has correct visa #, exp date etc. Finally find the place to get ebay to call me. Get some guy who says 'it shows that your check out went through just fine'. I said no it did not. Both transactions are gone from paypal , and the one that showed up right away in our bank account also disappeared just as fast. He sends me to the 'buying specialist', who of course speaks broken english

This moron tells me that Ebay is breaking ties with paypal and that they are blocking buyers from using it. I said you are totally incorrect, I know because I just used paypal on Friday to buy a Bissell Little Green Clean Machine with no issues. He disappears and comes back and says he was wrong..that the seller is the one who blocked me from using paypal. That they don't take paypal I said then they need to be reprimanded and ebay needs to make them remove Paypal as a form of payment for that seller. Guy says why don't you try buying it using your visa or debit. I said I do NOT want my visa or debit on file with ebay, that is why I use paypal! He says I will find you another seller of the same item. So he does..I look at it, and say this seller has no feedback and has been a seller for 5 days. Says they take paypal. Guy looks and says..oh I see the issue,,neither one of those sellers is verified by paypal, that's why you can't pay that way. They are going to notify both sellers that they must either verify themselves or remove paypal as a form of payment. So I made the guy restate that Ebay was NOT doing away with buyers being able to use paypal..and he admitted he spoke out of turn on that one. I said well if you do away with it, you are going to lose a LOT of ebay buyers.. I have been buying on ebay for more than 25 years, and I have never run into this issue before. The guy says do you want to try and buy it from another seller. I said YES,,I am going to
Amazon to buy it,,thank you for your time and your 'misinformation' and I hung up...geez..what a waste of my time!
Thanks for letting me vent..hubby doesn't want to hear it..he was trying to talk over the guy the whole phone conversation I was on..lol!