Paid with credit card . . . return through paypal . . . where is the $$$

[topshelfpuckcards]

I've recently gone through the return process and everything appears to have gone smoothly except for where the returned $$ has gone.

I initially paid directly through eBay, with my credit card; however, the seller has returned the money through eBay to my paypal account. There is a record of this in eBay, but nothing in my paypal account.

How long does it usually take for eBay to send a return to your paypal account when the initial payment was not at all associated with paypal?

Thanks kindly

[hafoster]

If the payment was not paid from your PayPal account --

then that refund would not show as a reversal of that non-existent payment.

Instead, the refund may have been paid* to your eBay email address --

and you need to add and confirm that email address to your PayPal account.

*unlikely, because that would be converting a credit card payment to cash.

More likely, your credit card payment paid to eBay's PayPal account --

was returned through that PayPal account to your credit card.

[myboardid]

A credit card payment is always returned to the card.  Sometimes the CC company is slow to post it to your account.  It may take several days. 

[hafoster]

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@topshelfpuckcards wrote:

however, the seller has returned the money through eBay to my paypal account. There is a record of this in eBay,