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[subbyhasan]

Originally Posted by stuartalex

I was in the same position as you several months ago but decided not to follow all the advice on here.
All the advice about opening a new paypal account is best followed , although you can't attach a debit card to a stealth account but you CAN attach a credit card as there's no cross check for name and address, however I then used the new paypal account on my existing ebay account as I didn't want to lose the feedback. This is for SELLING.
The ebay and paypal account have 2 different names, adresses , emails etc but they work together.
I'm assured by this forum that paypal may link them one day and that's fair enough but in the meantime I've had 6 more months out of my established ebay account and still going strong.
As the ebay account is a good one the regular 21 day hold on paypal funds didn't apply although transfers to the bank account took at least 72 hours for the first month or so.

Re Buying: as long as the card you use to pay is not connected to any other paypal account you should be able to use it but you should use the "pay by card" option and not fill in any other details , certainly not an email address that paypal have seen before.
Make sure when you use the paypal site with a new card that no details are filled in like your name , address , email etc.
Any card that's refused would indicate that the card may have been used on another paypal account at some point. If it's not there shouldn't be a reason for PP to reject it

Thanks very much for your reply and that is mainly what I intend to do, open up a new account with brand new name, address etc and then use that with my bank card however they are debit cards and not credit cards which I do not have and have no real intention of getting so that is a problem.

When I try to check out and use the option to use a separate card, I enter my details and then end up with this error:

The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different debit or credit card number.

I have no idea why this is happening. The card it self is only a few weeks old so there is no way that it can be linked to my PayPal account as I've been off PayPal for months now. I have changed around the billing address but it is still my main address where I want everything sending so not quite sure why it is happening. (I was told by PayPal that not only is my account banned but also me personally can never open up an account again but not sure if that makes a difference or not)

Any help is appreciated. Selling seems a long way off so currently just want to get my debit cards working so I can buy stuff on eBay