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PayPal 21 day hold trick dead?
 

Of course I know not to speak of the trick but just tried it twice with no luck. Guess its dead.

Youre not doing it right

^^^Maybe, maybe not :pout:

hi
its not dead, iused it yesterday

I wonder if it has anything to do with $ amount you do...:confused:

Orion, please put your flag up. We need to know where you are from...

I have heard of people using this trick with $2000 and it worked fine. Its not dead its alive.:shhh:

You are correct my Aussie friend. I think Paypal is catching on. IT systems are difficult to update and it will simply take a while for all PayPal's networks in all countries to be updated to correct the flaw.

For instance, if they are smart, they will correct the flaw first in the United States. Since this is where the majority of money is flowing through eBay/PayPal, it makes financial sense for them to correct the "trick" here first.

They might not even bother updating their IT systems in smaller countries, where the quicker release of the 21 day hold does not really affect their pocketbook.

Heard of people doing this and doing it yourself are two different items. These things change daily. Likewise, just because it worked last week, does not support that it will work today....

Their are a few tricks i hope it is not the trick i use all the time, i will found out on Sunday thou.

Has anyone else been having problems with the trick lately?

So far so good!

I used it yesterday too and it worked but at around midnight last night it didnt.

Well I guess like TMILES said "these things change daily" - sounds like you know what you're doing so keep trying little by little and good luck my friend.

I rarely do this trick myself cause half of my payments get released instantly, and half dont on a brand new account and I just ....:brick:??

Well 3 for 3 on 3 different accounts. Lets have a moment of silence.................

Are all of these new paypal accounts?

1 is about 3 months old and the other 2 are about 2 months. I have done it flawlessly though on them prior to midnight last night

BRod this is terrible news, it had a good run thou

Like they say, 'anything in moderation won't hurt you'. :typing:

Hes right the trick doesnt work anymore, just tried it today!!
Guys, think of somthing new.

refund buyer and send them a regular paypal invoice

ok, i just did the trick on new account. this was first payment it was under $30. After i did it, when i went to the tranction details it said this at the top of the page. PS i hadnt confirmed this account yet

Don't ship the item. We've completed the Payment Review and canceled the payment because it may not have been authorized by the PayPal account holder

^^^Not a really accurate test,Snagga. An unverified account will get payments stopped. If it was done with a verified account, then it is more accurate.
Regardless, this is sad,bad news.:pout:

i relize this. i remembered in the middle of typing it. thats why i added it at the end.

Theres a more thought out way to handle the 21 day hold to make it not so suspicious and work everytime safely.

:thumb:@Orion

Yeah I have a new account 6 months old but just started using. first 2 payments in were held, tried the trick and no luck.

I did the refund payment and sent regular paypal invoices thing like king02 said when this 21 day hold thing first started before learning the trick . That account got limited after about 8 refunds for suspicious activity. So I'd be careful with doing that one too often.

Okay guys the trick is dead now. We need to move on, I already been having paypal troubles. Way to many actually. Eventually I knew this will happen so we need to move on.

I can confirm that the american paypal accounts get this. I tryed. Any other confirmations on any other country paypal's?

I too can confirm that this glitch has been fixed by paypal, for US accounts. Gotta find some other work-around, payments stacking up now with these 21 day holds.

Say it aint so

I can say it is so! Hope some other members here will share their experience as well

I know why its dead i even seen the trick plasterd all over Welcome to PayPalSucks.com, PayPal Lawsuit, PayPal Alternative, PayPal Complaints, Fraud & Evil behind the PayPal system! and other sites. I told them they needed to delete it do to paypal spys reading it but now its dead.

what dummies!

all you had to do was google it and it would pop up everywhere...

im gonna start working on merchant statements.. at this point i dont want to deal with paypal at all...

has anyone gotten merchant statements accepted recently??

:clap:

:pop2:

Yea, That's how I found it.

Well, since it's dead now, maybe we can all talk about it openly? Maybe people can start by how they found it, how it worked for them or didn't work? I see that both, refund and change email thingy was mentioned in this thread already, so which one is it that does not work any more, or is it both?

There is still another way I ran into on internet, but I didn't work it correctly so there still may be at least one way around? I hope.....:noidea:

how does the email trick work?

I think most people used the refund method....lyda it might be a good idea to discuss further in executive vip section.

Loose lips sink ships:eek:

Agreed with GreenBean.

Many people here have a method that still works.