Verifying bank account on paypal good idea or not

Probably not. and I have used paypal for lots of things since 1999 had no trouble with them only time they ever went to my bank account is if I ordered something that went over what I had in paypal and I had to give permission. If I am low I do transfer myself from my bank to paypal

Thik I would use one of the gmails before I would any other

It was one and they wrote that we had to join via our paypal address. I also do not know if that means they way one checks into paypal will change. i know that some companies are fussy that they never allow you to change your log in details except for your password.

In Canada we have to wait until we get over one hundred and twenty-five dollars before they do not charge anything. And if I made that much in a month, the income tax people would get very suspicious. Anyway verifying makes it easy for me to send money, but i am more interested in receiving money.

I withdraw when I get 320 at least and get 50 cents taken off of it for the withdrawal fees. Then as soon as it is in my checking account, i upload it to my high interest savings account. That makes it easy for me. I just do not want to keep that much money in my checking account.

I leave my money in the account until I have enough that the buck, fifty doesn't hurt too bad...

Herro suspenseful I'm glad you found a solution to your problem. I forgot that I have an account at an online bank (ING). I appreciate this discussion, it has been a real exchange of information. Thank you. Prosperous mylotting

I have an e-gold account but nothing in it, thank goodness. But at least you made me feel more confident about Paypal so I will not worry that I verified it and besides I have a high interest account online and when my checking account was too low, I transferred money from the high interest account into it and it took just a few hours. So really I should not worry.

I have an account with ING too. And I put most of my paypal money in it after uploading it from my checking account. I do think that e-gold is not that good and I notice that not many sites use it. So there has to be a reason for that.

I went on Paypal's sight and I saw the part about verifying my bank account because they were fixing up their site and I could not see the withdraw to your bank account. (I found it later) and I thought that the only way to get a withdrawal was to verify my bank account and that was part of Paypal's new policy. Well it was not, except that now Canadians could verify their accounts but that had been going on for some time now.

I guess I do not have to. Now I just have to find a way to change my paypal email address. The trouble is I have so many email addresses and I do not just have one just for paypal, but I guess I have to.

Well in thatcase you should have nothing to worry about.

I always send those bad emails to the spoof email address, but sometimes I just delete them. Maybe I should send all of them. The only money I keep in my paypal account is while waiting until I have enough to download. So I do not have any problem that way. It is the ones who pretend to be me and the ones who are crooked ebay sellers that I worry about.

I was worried about getting taken by some crooks who used Ebay. And also if there was a dispute of Paypal taking the money from my bank account. I do need that money in there as I am on a tight budget.

They say that they will ask you first, but I do not exactly feel safe. So I intend to keep as little money in that bank account as possible. I just will avoid buying from ebay. That might help.

I have an account I have not verified with paypal yet because it is my main banking account. But then I do not order things from paypal. It is only for receiving. I would rather use my credit cards or mail a check, because you never know if there is a problem with the order, and you get the short end of the stick. I know I ordered that good singing course and they had a choice of either using credit card or going through Paypal and naturally I used the former.

In Canada we could not verify our bank account until recently. Before all we had to do was to give our credit card number and our bank account number but Paypal did not send money to our bank account as a test to make certain it was our account. That gave me the feeling that they wanted to know whose account it was just in case there was a dispute. So they already knew we had a bank account because we had to say so but in order to verify it, they had to make doubly sure it was ours by putting a deposit themselves into our bank account and after that we could transfer money from our account to that of whom we wanted to give money to like relatives, and friends, etc. as long as it was in our own country.

Oh okay..Well like I said, I wouldn't worry about verifying it as long as you didn't go through your e-mail to do so..

I was more worried about someone using my email address. But they do have a lot of checks and balances to make sure it is me.

I do not know how that could have happened unless maybe you just changed your password and even though I changed it on Roboform, forgot to change it on Paypal. But I have a password keeper and put the new password in plus I also write down the old password just in case So in the case when I could not get in, I entered my old password and was in. So what you have to do is see where you kept your old password before you changed it, and then change to the new password in Paypal. I hope you did not entered by one of those email links. You may have done it once, and someone may now be pretending to be you. Also the banks have a different system on how to give the information, how many digits etc. So you might have to get it from one of your bank statements or ask the bank manager. And you might have to write a snail letter to Paypal. Emails do not help that much.

I thought they deposited the few cents. But I have to che I thought they deposited those little bits of cash in your bank account not taken it out, because in that case, I would not be as trustful of them. However, I will go and find out. It might be that they put them in temporarily and remove them as soon as the account is verified. I checked and they do deposit the amount in your bank account, so it is not as you said. cv

I just use my home computer. I do have an iphone and can get on it through that route. The trouble is that I make up so complicated passwords that I am more inclined to type in the wrong digit.

I do change the password about every six months or so, and usually Paypal sends me a notice to my real name and address to tell me to do so. I do get spam emails from people claiming to be from Paypal. But I got suspicious when the email they sent it to was not my Paypal email address. I was very smart in that even though for a time I did put other email addresses, it was just for a month or so, and then I removed them. The whole trouble with those spams is they started when I wanted my website known and at that time there was no check box for those who did not want third parties to know about their email address.

I am not much into online marketing. if I were to send money, it would be because I was invited to a wedding or a shower, but it was cross country and I could not be there. And most of the dealings I have had is getting paid, but I am also wary about being scammed by online sellers who lie about what they are selling.

It is hearing that horror story of that couple who were cheated or spammed and because no one was sure, Paypal took the money out of their bank account that scared me. Yet I felt that if I wanted to send money to someone of my relatives as a gift because I could not be there, I had to verify that account. However, that account does not have that much money on it and usually I would put most of the money in my high interest bank account.

Thanks. I just did not want to have Paypal take the money out of my bank account if someone stole my email address and pretended to be me.