It may just have been a fluke that it turned it back on for your ebay purchase. I don't have ebay linked to Paypal - I manually log into Paypal every time I make a purchase from ebay. I double checked anyway and still PAD won't show up at the check out screen. I even have PAD saved as my preferred payment method in my Paypal account - I still can't get it to come up for ANY ebay purchase. Even with sellers that I've used PAD with on ebay before! It makes no sense why I would be able to use PAD with a seller on ebay before and two months later, it isn't an option. I submitted another ticket to Paypal and am waiting for a response. My guess is they have no clue - they just programmed a computer to determine if PAD can be used and they have no understanding of how it works!
I find it suspicous that PAD worked and was an option for just about every transaction I used Paypal with during the holiday season and suddenly after the holidays, no one can get it to show up. Trust me I've made close to a 100 purchases on ebay over the last four months and there has been an obvious difference with PAD being available. It's hard to believe that all the different sellers and puchases I've made through ebay just in the last 2 months, that NOT ONE of them gave me an option to use PAD. I was even able to use PAD on purchases from Toys R Us during the holidays - When I make a purchase now, PAD isn't an option even though it's active on my account.
PAYPAL - You gave certain members the option of PAD and then take it back or say it's only for certain purchases. Yet you can't explain when it's an option or for what purchases. If a payment option is active for a member, the member should decide when they want to use it - not some computer! It's a pretty crappy way to treat your customers!
