I have PayPal hooked to my bank so I can pay without fees. For years it has worked great but recently they changed some things and introduced some "e-Check" bullshit.
Now it seems like half the payments I send take 5 business days to deliver and are whatever the hell an "eCheck" is, and half are completely instant.
Both are via the "send via bank" option. At first I thought it was big amounts for security or processing reasons, but it's not. Even smaller amounts get it. The bank account I'm pulling from is quite a few decimal points away from empty, so that's all good too
Worst part is they can't be refunded by PayPal or the seller until they go through, so you can't cancel it and redo it with another payment method. I tried calling, the seller (two months back... not pictured below) tried calling, I ended up just having to take his word he would send it back to me and eat double the cost in the mean time, which was bad because it was several hundred dollars.
It says on the webpage a recipient can cancel it before it begins to process but we literally called PayPal about 30 seconds after sending it and neither of us could have it cancelled.
This was a while ago and the problems continues to this day. Half of the payments are great, half are not, even to the same people!
Anybody else have this problem?