I'm not one for bothering much about things but this has really annoyed me so much. I've had paypal for a while now and i've used it for buying off ebay quite a few times and had no problems but i've never used it for anything else more than once, so today i wanted to get a 1 month premium account for rapidshare since i was downloading a lot of mods and stuff from there so i clicked on the paypal link and entered my login details and then hit pay now only to be told the following: This payment cannot be completed because your credit card has been refused by your credit card issuer. I have Switch/Maestro card and when i logged into my online banking it said for my current account, Balance:xx.xx Available: xx.xx so i have funds available. I see when i use ebay and pay with paypal I have no trouble getting money from my account.
it might be the expiry date, happened to me once, updated the expiry date and everything was fine again.
might have to try that?? not sure if i updated my details after i lost my card to a hungry cash machine which took my card and never gave it back.
I had the same problem. When my CC company issued me a new credit card, I tried to update my info in Paypal and it said the card was refused. The CC company had called my home and sent a letter, both basically saying that your CC is fine, but you have to telephone in to enable Paypal purchases. I guess it's a security hassle/precaution on their part because a lot of online CC fraud is probably perpetrated through PayPal. (Jeez, I feel like Sylvester Cat...)
