can't send money to email containing a dash character

[Dan_Hay]

I have attempted to send money to a recipient who has an email address containing a dash character (eg. foo@bar-baz.com).  The dash character is not accepted by whatever verification method PayPal uses and an error message is issued forth advising me to use a correct email address.  I've played around with this a bit and determined that any email address containing a dash in the domain name part will cause such a failure.  I've even keyboard mashed bogus email addresses without a dash and was able to proceed to the next step, but when I put a dash in the same keyboard mashed bogus address I get an error messagte and am unable to proceed.

Thoughts?  Advice?

Perhaps the nice people at PayPal should fix this problem?

[gmorgan]

Me too. I called and they offered a workaround. I can ask the seller to provide an alternate e-mail that doesn't have a dash. However, when you are making international payments dealing with multiple languages, that's really not much of a solution. If this generates negative feedback or cancels my transaction, I am not going to be a happy camper. The really amazing part of this is that the seller has a paypal verified email address. How does this stuff even happen?

[gmorgan]

Interesting FYI. If you can't send the money via the paypal website because of the dash issue, try the paypal app on your smart phone. I was able to complete my transaction that way.