E-Checks

[lordevor_0]

A verified eBay user has offered to pay with an E-Check.  Is this legal?  He does not have a credit/debit card and closed his PayPal account to to issues with them.  He said the purchase will go thru eBay after the E-Check clears my bank account.    The item is $1000 so its not a smaller purchase.  Please offer me advise.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

Correct.  It has not been tested.  Nor do we likely have someone who can test it given the fact (I'm getting deja vu, I think I already posted this) that PP *may* choose to fund it for certain customers & most here will also have a backup or linked funding source.   Even if we *did* have someone who could test, I don't take others' words for it, with VERY few exceptions.  Nothing personal against anyone, but there's only a handful of people I trust from a techie knowledge/IT level detail orientation to set up a test scientifically correct & without possible interference from tangental factors.   Again, nothing against anyone here, I just pretty much only trust my own scientific mind & maybe 5 other people's LOL, mostly users I've 'known' for decades, so I know how their minds work.  🤓  

I don't see this as being resolved unless one of us happens to get a random customer who happens to fit the bill AND we are informed of the e-check. 

[rugerskick]

Local meetups can often be done at a police station.  Many have spaces/areas set up just for this kind of reason.

[soh.maryl]

What is a "verified user"? 

[mam98031]

@soh.maryl 

Long ago it was something that PayPal did.  They would verify a member by sending something to their address or something, I don't really remember the process.  If you completed the process you were a verified member.  Paypal stopped do this quite a few years ago