Wunderbar, thanks! That's just what I wanted.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
> At 05:31 PM 10/7/2008, Andrew Grebneff wrote...
>>
>> I made a PayPal payment for some T3 items... and sent it to the
>> seller's wrong address!
>> (ie not his PayPal account address).
>
> I went to their main page, clicked the "help" link, and entered "wrong
> email." The second answer was this:
>
> "Q: I sent money to the wrong email address, but the payment is completed.
> What do I do?
>
> "A: PayPal cannot reverse payments that have been claimed. We recommend that
> you contact your recipient directly and make arrangements to have the money
> refunded to you via PayPal or another method of your choosing."
>
> I Google'd for "paypal cancel payment," and found this on eBay (
> http://forums.ebay.com.sg/thread.jspa?threadID=600000616 ):
>
> "Can I cancel a payment that I've already sent?
>
> "You can cancel only unclaimed payments. If your payment is complete, please
> contact the recipient of the payment to request a refund.
>
> "Unclaimed payments can be canceled for the following reasons:
> A payment sent to an email address is not associated with a PayPal account.
> Once the email address is added to a PayPal account, the payment is
> automatically credited to the balance of that account.
>
> "A payment is sent to a recipient with an unconfirmed email address. For
> security reasons, PayPal can only credit payments sent to a confirmed email
> address."
>
> So, if you sent it to an email address which has a PayPal account, it's your
> problem, and you'll have to convince that person to send the money back to
> you. If it's unclaimed, you may be able to cancel it yourself. I think you
> do so by clicking on the "detail" link from where the transaction displays
> in your PayPal account.
>
> Here are PayPal's phone numbers:
>
> +1-402-935-7733 (Personal Accounts)
> +1-402-935-2057 (Personal Accounts)
>

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