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Bought Something From Walmart.com Paypal Got limited But Payment Went Through
 

So this is what happened. Like I have been posting about buying stuff instead of w/d from an account. Well this is my latest story:
I needed a brand new laptop to give to my brother for Christmas. So when I got some product in, I sent an invoice to one of my buyers. Came out to about $360. Invoice was paid. Went and shipped it out. Paid shipping out of my pocket. Got home and went to walmart.com. Bought one of those small acer computers. It came out to like $300 with tax and shipping. Now here is the weird part, after payment. I checked my balance and it was pending. Like it always is after payment. A few hours later, I checked again and BAM. Limitation! But payment complete.
Now usually when I get smacked with a limitation, My payment gets reversed. Whether its a bank transfer, payment to another ebayer, etc.
Could this be because it was a big corporation?
Thats my ??
Thanks Everyone!

I have been purchasing items from walmart.com and toysrus.com using my paypal balance for the past month. Well in the excess of $1,000 for christmas presents. I didnt get limited or anything. It might be a limitation because of something else entirely. I wouldnt think it was because you used the money to shop at walmart.com. But not sure why it happened to you.

i had this happen to me like 3-4 months ago with 2 mp3 players a total of $230 dollars or around there.. i didn't get the payment pending or reversed but i got a limitation like 10 minutes later but payment went through.

Could it be because I used almost my whole balance?? Has anybody ever had a payment reversed from a big corporation like walmart.com?

This happened to me with kmart 8 months ago, I still dont know what happened but I did put my home address as the shipping address on the kmart site so I am pretty sure the account was linked.

Maybe it's because you spent all the money right after you got paid. Paypal may be worried about covering their butts in case the buyer opens a dispute.

Did you still get your merchandise?

Yeah could be But see I am not worried about the limitation, I was just curious if you pay to a big corporation like walmart.com, can it be reversed? I was seeing if anybody has had a reversal from a big company.

When u guys pay with paypal do u pick up in store or do they ship to the address on paypal? or can u pick what address to ship to

I had stuff picked up in store once, I used my stealth info for walmart then had it shipped to another state where I live then they give you an option to add a friend to pick-up, so then I added me to the walmart account.

I had it shipped to my house. On the checkout page for walmart.com it asks you for an address to ship to not the one on the paypal account. On the one that got limited, I had a site to store. Again my name on the checkout page and went and picked it up. No problem.

cool i will have to rember this if i get to where i cant w/d paypal funds i could just buy stuff from stores :) like walmart giftcards ;)

Yup thats exactly what I am doing. Instead of w/d slowly, I just got 8 of those $100 american express cards. Got them in two days because I paid $15 for the shipping. But I used them everywhere!

What Amex card is this?

It was american express gift cards

Does paypal see what you buy or just the amount?

I would ASSUME (99% sure) just the amounts pod. They see everything like a BANK. Banks can see where, when, how much money was sent. BUT NOT FOR WHAT.

Yeah see I tried it again and bought all those gift cards. I was just asking if anyone has had a reversal from walmart.com. I used to w/d money to my bank and hated doing it slowly. And not being able to guarantee I would even get it because of being limited. Now I can just buy all these and use them like cash. I just hope I dont run into a reversal.

I dont think PayPal would mess with Walmart on payment reversals unless absolutely necessary. Its a pretty big client and there would be no games like we deal with to be certain. A lot of what PP does is "just to be safe"... They started messing with Walmart they would be tossed to the curb pretty quick

However, you could face a limitation for sure if all you do is buy from Walmart. But I would be shocked if any payments were reversed once made. if they were it would be really soon after payment, not next day

Yeah I made a payment to walmart.com. Status was pending. Then shortly later got limited but payment complete. So I guess one account for $400-$800 kind of seams worth it to me. It was not even bank verified just vcc.

So when you buy off walmart the payment is held in check at "pending" for a little while? How long usually does it sit pending?

Sounds to me like they try and avoid the need to reverse. So my guess is once its completed thats that

I had one that took like 2 hours. It was a brand new account too opened it like 4 hours before money was in it