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We all know of the health risk associated with alcohol consumption when combined with ebay (although that frequently seems to have a happy ending for many) but I have just discovered another one and it's a sobering occurrence....
The other evening on a 'well known retro bicycling site' I espied what I perceived to be one of my personal Unicorns (or at least is was when combined with Thatchers. Or was it Westons....) and arranged to purchase said item. Paid with PayPal there and then (now quite late at night and merry fog has descended in my head) Long story short, £2.31 in my PP account so funds are needed from my bank account, plus I then manage to put a '-' instead of a '_' between some letters, so it's all a bit of a c*ck up all round.
However...PP realise my mistake, or at least say that there is no registered account that matches that name, do I want to cancel? So yes please, I cancel the payment and it shows as such and I think that's that, then make the payment again, correctly this time, to the seller....
Only fast forward to today, and checking my bank account, the payment has gone out twice! Obviously one is the real one, and presumably the other will appear in my PayPal account at some point of their choosing in about a weeks time. But why? WHY????!!! Surely if the transaction is cancelled, the transfer of funds from a bank account should be cancelled too?
Tried contacting them by email or message but as per usual with PP/ebay, there is never an option that really covers this event. Going to sit it out and hope it's all alright, but thank...flip....it was only 50 odd quid and not hundreds, taking me into massively overdrawn....
The moral of the story? Don't buy stuff on here when under the influence!
:facepalm:
The other evening on a 'well known retro bicycling site' I espied what I perceived to be one of my personal Unicorns (or at least is was when combined with Thatchers. Or was it Westons....) and arranged to purchase said item. Paid with PayPal there and then (now quite late at night and merry fog has descended in my head) Long story short, £2.31 in my PP account so funds are needed from my bank account, plus I then manage to put a '-' instead of a '_' between some letters, so it's all a bit of a c*ck up all round.
However...PP realise my mistake, or at least say that there is no registered account that matches that name, do I want to cancel? So yes please, I cancel the payment and it shows as such and I think that's that, then make the payment again, correctly this time, to the seller....
Only fast forward to today, and checking my bank account, the payment has gone out twice! Obviously one is the real one, and presumably the other will appear in my PayPal account at some point of their choosing in about a weeks time. But why? WHY????!!! Surely if the transaction is cancelled, the transfer of funds from a bank account should be cancelled too?
Tried contacting them by email or message but as per usual with PP/ebay, there is never an option that really covers this event. Going to sit it out and hope it's all alright, but thank...flip....it was only 50 odd quid and not hundreds, taking me into massively overdrawn....
The moral of the story? Don't buy stuff on here when under the influence!
:facepalm:
