PayPal checkout won’t work

[acar*]

PayPal checkout doesn’t authenticate my account and eBay immediately pretends that the item is paid at the checkout.  Of course, after an hour or so, I get the payment didn’t go through message.  This issue is repeatable, and it has nothing to do with my PayPal account.  It happened to me during the last 4 of my purchases.  When I contacted eBay, they said that the problem is with PayPal, and when I contacted PayPal, they said that there was no request from eBay about a payment.  I can check out using other payment options.  This only happens with PayPal checkout.   Is it possible that eBay tries to steer out the payments away from PayPal?

[eburtonlab]

If you mean that when you check out of eBay and select PayPal, you are sent directly to a specific PayPal account without entering username or password and you do not want that to happen, sign in to that PayPal account outside of eBay and use the Gear icon to go to Settings and choose Security, then check the "Manage your Logins" and "Auto Login" sections and either delete those entries or select "Log out of all devices".

If you are unable to sign in to that PayPal account directly, try using a different browser (or a private or incognito browser window) to see if that gives you the option to select a PayPal account.

Otherwise, is it possible that your default PayPal payment method for eBay is no longer valid?

Try going to your eBay Payments page in your eBay account and delete the entry for PayPal if one appears there.

https://ppcapp.ebay.com/myppc/wallet/list

Then the next time you check out on eBay and choose PayPal, you should be sent to your PayPal wallet page and given a chance to pick a specific payment method. That may work better.