sending a lot of "gifts"

[bart]

Hello,

I send a lot of "gifts" from one paypal to another.
The reason I do this is that occasionally I have to pay some people by paypal, and these people have foreign accounts so my bank will charge me 2% if I fund these payments using my bank.

So I need to have a positive balance and I send a gift from one of my paypal accounts to another, and then pay these people.

I do probably around 2,000 a month.

If I keep doing this, will I get limited?

[GreenBean]

2,000 gift transactions or $2000 monetary value?

Never a good idea to do 'gifts' like that

Have you mass pay?

shudders

[slokor]

It will raise a LOT of attention.
So yes in the end you are more than likely to get limited - along with all the other accounts you sent payments to.

[slapped]

Go ahead and keep doing it,,,and Paypal will send YOU a gift soon,,,the BOOT,,,,

[bart]

Originally Posted by GreenBean™

2,000 gift transactions or $2000 monetary value?

Never a good idea to do 'gifts' like that

Have you mass pay?

shudders

sorry for the confusion, $2000 not 2000 transcactions.

I have mass pay but i dont want to pay $1. well, I would rather not pay it, but i would if necessary.

Which one will raise attention?
me sending a gift from my first paypal to my second paypal
or me sending gifts from my second paypal to all these people?
or both?

[GreenBean]

I'll be blunt. I am tired & hungry too.

The WHOLE manner in which you are operating has the potential to kill your account

Not wanting to spend a $1 here or $2 there is long term false economy

Rethink the plan

[bart]

Originally Posted by GreenBean™

I'll be blunt. I am tired & hungry too.

The WHOLE manner in which you are operating has the potential to kill your account

Not wanting to spend a $1 here or $2 there is long term false economy

Rethink the plan

no problem, I love blunt people.
So sending a mass payment will not raise red flags?

[mcmx]

Aren't they charging regular fees (3-4%) for sending as 'Gift' now???? It just gives the option to the sender on whether they pay the fee, or the seller does. Still no protection though...

[mcmx]

Hmmm. They MUST do it at random. I just tried to send $300 as Gift to a friend now and it didn't give me an option of choosing to pay for the fee, or letting the seller. Just said the fee was $0.00. That's good.

However, not too long ago I tried to send around $300 as Gift to a friend and it DID give me the option of choosing to pay the specified amount for the fee - or letting the seller pay it.

[bart]

Originally Posted by mcmxcivjm

Hmmm. They MUST do it at random. I just tried to send $300 as Gift to a friend now and it didn't give me an option of choosing to pay for the fee, or letting the seller. Just said the fee was $0.00. That's good.

However, not too long ago I tried to send around $300 as Gift to a friend and it DID give me the option of choosing to pay the specified amount for the fee - or letting the seller pay it.

US to US >> no fee

US to foreign account >> small fee

[yotano211]

Cant you just pay these people with a credit/debit card. Why even send that much money through paypal. The only thing I send that much money from paypal to anywhere is to my bank.

I pay my hard drive supplier, in the US, with paypal but I use my debit card through paypal in a ebay/paypal buyers account only.

I rarely send anything "gift, but from the horror stories here and in other places it's not worth it to send anything "gift".