Habitually Good

I signed up with PayPal a long time ago. It allows me to make secure payments online. Recently, it has allowed me to receive payments online as well. When you sign-up with PayPal, you are by default an “Unverified” user. This carries certain limitations for you (there is a cap on the amount you can send). To become verified, the process involves:

• Allowing PayPal to charge a small sum on your credit card,
• And when your credit card statement comes, there is a 4 digit code present on the statement against the transaction,
• Which you are supposed to key-in on the PayPal site.

Sounds very simple, doesn’t it? Well, it is simple if Murphy is not playing havoc with your life. I have tried to get verification done with my credit card a number of times and I got a failure message each time. The PayPal site tells me that there is something wrong with my credit card. Of course, I have used the same card through PayPal a zillion times to make purchases.

Anyway, I called up my credit card company and they told me that the problem is at PayPal end (they couldn’t tell me what the problem is). I contacted PayPal support and they told me that the problem is with the credit card company. So, I was stuck.

Well, I am stuck no more. I simply added another credit card that I have and I used it to verify my account. That worked like magic. So, if you are facing the same problem where you are having trouble getting your PayPal account verified, I suggest adding another card.

For the record, the card which didn’t work (though I am still not sure whose fault that is) is from ABN AMRO; and the one that worked is from ICICI. I live in India.

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