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Money Disappearing In My Paypal Account

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I've been watching my balance in paypal account and found out that somewhere between Juli 4th and Juli 16th 444sek (~60usd) mysteriously disappeared?? I haven't spent anything so that is why I found this strange and worrying. It doesn't even show up in the history. Any ideas how or why this happed?
 





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Do you have it in multiple currencies? If you do then PayPal's summary amount (in your chosen "native" currency) will fluctuate as exchange rates change (my native currency is GBP but I have an USD balance as well, so as the exchange rate shifts, my summary amount in GBP changes). Unless you have several hundred in your account, I doubt it would shift by that much. Speak to PayPal if you're unsure.
 
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i would contact paypal and scan your computer for any kind of viruses..
 
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charliebruce said:
Do you have it in multiple currencies? If you do then PayPal's summary amount (in your chosen "native" currency) will fluctuate as exchange rates change (my native currency is GBP but I have an USD balance as well, so as the exchange rate shifts, my summary amount in GBP changes). Unless you have several hundred in your account, I doubt it would shift by that much. Speak to PayPal if you're unsure.
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I guess that could be right.

Quote from paypal:
"Available balance in SEK (primary): 0.00 SEK
Total balance (all currencies, available and pending) converted to SEK: xxx"

This is not how I want it, I want whatever I receive in whatever currency to be converted into SEK and never change in value after that..? Confused...

I will contact them and see if they can help me.
 
lasersbee

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I have my primary PayPal preferences set to US Funds...
Then and only then... when the exchange rate is beneficial
to me I will withdraw and convert it to Canadian funds...

Jerry
 
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lasersbee said:
I have my primary PayPal preferences set to US Funds...
Then and only then... when the exchange rate is beneficial
to me I will withdraw and convert it to Canadian funds...

Jerry
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That only mean ...you must have a tons of money ... and by a tons i really mean it (if you use penny) :crackup:

I don"t trust paypal and ebay enough to have more than two hundred in my account.


PayPal balance: $2.21 CAD

:D
 
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The answer is simple ... don't store money in your paypal account for any amounts of time :D

Simplest way is if you aren't going to be using it for a while, transfer it to your bank account.
 
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Heh, I actually had this happen once - it didn't show up in account history because debit card charges (i believe, when one has a pay pal debit card) doesn't show up there - it shows up on a separate statement.

Ends up it was some lady in Wisconsin using my paypal account to buy arts and crafts supplies on a stolen debit card? (!?) -- Anyhow, Paypal did take care of it right away, and I actually did get all my money back, amazingly. I had to call a few times to get the "right" representative, but it actually did work out.

In my case it was about $640.
 
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fml, are you selling stuff ? If yes, paypal might have refunded someone. I think refunds do not show up on paypal account. That's a possibility.

Peter
 
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Well so far I've accomplished nothing. I tried to withdraw to my bank account but it says that the information is invalid, but it isn't... I contacted them but they respond slowly and so far it hasn't been helpful. They 'believe' the missing money is because of the denied withdraw which is utter bs. More to come...
 
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