I will give my personal experience on this as i have many doubts about what makes them hold (concerning reality and not what pay pal and eb ay says).
2 days ago i made a sale on a very high risk at eb ay. It was a several days auction and had lots of bids reaching an ammount i was surprised to get. Anyway, the account used to sell this item is only one month old (started at earlier august) and have 9 feedbacks (100% feedback with awesome reviews by buyers). I used this account to sell some cheap items (nothing more than 3 GBP) and used the balance on pay pal to buy some cheap items i needed.
After the sale i made (big ammount one) i associated a bank account to my pay pal account and yesterday when the buyer payed i accepted the payment (donīt have the automatic payment accepted option active) and withdrew it almost immediatly. It got status pending yesterday right after the withdraw. i though that until it says completed i was not safe of being hold because i was told that only when it says completed money is free to go to bank account. Today i woke up and saw that payment is completed which i understand it will not be hold anymore (as far as i know...).
So, to review and conclude things:
1 - short life eb ay account
2 - 9 positive feedback (100% although only 5 is selling feedback)
3 - pay pal short life account (same time as eb ay)
4 - high risk item
5 - withdrawal very fast
Money is through whithout any hold (in fact i was never hit with email from eb ay for this listing even though is high risk).
Lucky? I donīt know. Making something different or something i am not aware could surpass this situation whithout any limitation? I swear i just followed the book and advice from members here.
This all for my opinion that is i donīt doubt they hit much more generally new accounts with this hold (even older ones as i see written in this board) but much more important than that i think that they act randomly on accounts. The fact this had happen or is happening to me doesnīt mean it will work to others. I think this is trial and error but this is just me and my opinion...
Very important:
Donīt presume that even though this is working for me ( as iīm not doing nothing hidden or unrevealing any trick) does mean it will work for you. This is not more than a statement of my experience so far.
If this info is not emant to be in public forums please move it as i fully understand ( although no tricks or under the table behavior is being made...at least that iīm aware of).
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