At 10:59 AM 5/31/01 -0700, Steve Schwenk wrote:
>Tim, you may be mistaken.  Paypal does send
>confirmation e-mails using the payees e-mail address,
>not paypals.  Second, if you did give him a new e-mail
>address under which you do not have an account, the
>money will sit there under the NEW email until you
>claim it.  I had this happen to me.
>
>Go to paypal and add your new e-mail to your account.
>Then money should appear.
>
>This same thing happened to me and ZI thought I was
>getting ripped off, too.  But the money was there under
>the non-account e-mail.  If you follow the link on the
>confirming e-mail, you will likely find it, but they
>will ask you to open an account to get it since the
>e-mail is not the one you are registered under.
>
>I sold Adam springs and there was no problem.
>Steve
>
>p.s. blame paypal!

If this is true, my profound apologies to Adam.
I've been busting my hump to get this packaged
and off today, and definately don't like the way
things look.  Adam should have received a message
that the email account wasn't active, and queried me.
I've had the same problem, and I couldn't even finish
the PayPal 'send money' page.

I don't have a copy of any legit PayPal confirmation, but
all my stuff has been confirmed via "service@paypal.com"
buying or selling.  I'll go back into PayPal and add
the account as you suggest. My old address is still active,
I get daily mail via it, so I know it's forwarding fine,
and if the payment went to my new address, where's PayPals
direct-to-me confirmation, despite not having an account?

I'm touchy on this, a friend shipped a mint vintage Judson
supercharger for a bug into US, and got stiffed badly. Once
over the border it was gone.

Yes, I'm quite willing to blame PayPal, and would prefer to!
Thanks Steve, more to come, Tim