Reasons Behind ''WE CAN'T PROCESS PAYMENT AT THIS TIME''

[Imohsofly718]

Originally Posted by empirestate

for future posts. Please specify...
1. Age of accounts
2. Is this a sleeper account with no recent transactions?
3. Did you receive payments from ebay or paypal?
4. Any other important info...
5. Thanks...

only paypal knows and they don't tell you the reasoning behind it and then when payment is successful after trying 72hrs or a week or a month they limit you right away it just seems strange no matter what

[Imohsofly718]

Originally Posted by slokor

That's actually not necessarily true as it happened to me recently on a couple of accounts that received payments for ebay transactions. The 21 day hold applied and the funds were released. I then waited almost a full month before trying to send a payment - and got the same message.

honestly whats your personal reason behind it

[rsot]

Many possibilities exist - both on paypal server side and on client side. I think it's kind of an exercise in exasperation to analyze all variables.

[slokor]

My opinion is that it has to do with the history of the account.
For the first few transactions they would look more at the IP address and the nature of the transaction itself (amount, who the recipient is, etc). Later on the transaction history becomes more important.
Im sure its more complex than that and that other factors would also play a role but I believe this one is the most important one.