I goobered up - how do I fix this?

[episodic]

I paid for an ebay auction with my paypal.

My 'authorized checking account' is very old, and not even active anymore since I moved. I'm usually very careful to pay with a debit card and I don't have a checking account linked that is active.


I accidently forgot to change my payment source. It says it 'went through' and that is was funded from a checking account that no longer exists and that hasn't existed in 5 years.

How do I undo this? What is going to happen?

 

[Baked]

You'll get a $20 penalty fee for insufficient fund from paypal, and get to choose a different payment source. AFAIK, once you executed the transaction, you can't stop it.

 

[Xylitol]

you can try calling paypal support, but they're a bunch of retards there

 

[episodic]

I actually called them, and they reminded me I had a backup funding source (credit card that would pay) if the bank declined. The account is like 5 years old, so it should bounce and go to secondary

 

[mitchel]

Did you close your bank acc?

 

[episodic]

I know it is awful, but I think I did It was 5 years ago. . . I was going to call them on Monday and see what was up. Even if I failed to close it, the fact that I have a back up funding source - hopefully they won't let more debit that the couple of dollars that could potentially still be sitting there (when I left this town, I just kinda left) - I think I closed it - but who knows at this point honestly.

 

[episodic]

Out of curiosity, they would not reuse my old checking account number would they? There isn't a way that someone else opened an account and has that number is there? Or would it be tied to the name, too?

 

[meltdown75]

dude, when did you change you av?! ban.

 

[episodic]

Don't even know what an AV is?

 

[meltdown75]

avatar. sorry, continue on - threadjack imminent

 

[FDF12389]

Avatar

 

[episodic]

I've been the nerdy guy for quite a while now. . .

 

[meltdown75]

i remember you as the cow.

 

[episodic]

fixed

back to the question:

Out of curiosity, they would not reuse my old checking account number would they? There isn't a way that someone else opened an account and has that number is there? Or would it be tied to the name, too?

 

[meltdown75]

oh yeah

 

[Squisher]

You sure that backup source is current too? A lot of credit/debit cards expire before 5 years. The account number might be right, but the expiration date might be old.

 

[episodic]

My backup source I'd updated since then.