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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Policy changes were made last year IIRC Sky
My own account is registered to a bank account I use solely for Paypal transactions and they have a credit card number they will fall back on if there were insufficient funds in the bank account to cover said transaction.
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You misunderstand the problem. Of course, every paypal account has a bank account linked to it. But Paypal
now explicitly refuses to use this for transactions. I had it that way in the past: bank account was sufficient to use paypal for all kinds of transactions. My friend has a bank account linked to his paypal as well, and it worked in the past. I think you cannot even log a personalised paypal account without a banking acount entered.
I have used my friends account for DCL buys for Skyrim - there it worked. For SBP updates, I used the credit card of my father the last times. But today, Paypal sent a message saying that they do not do transactions via that banking acount, but that linking a credit card to the profile which then will be used for the transaction, is mandatory. How much money your regular bank account holds, is irrelevant.
Most people have used paypal to avoid the need to reveal their credit card data, and some, minors, also did not have credit cards. Paypal came in where credit cards were not agreed to, or for other reasons were no option. Now Paypal depends on credit cards!? In the German ebay forum for exmaple IO read many people commenting that since two years they have not been able to make any buy with paypal without credit card linked to the pp account.