I have two paypal accounts, for several years now, and am in the USA, which gives more options to pay; however, one cannot add a card registered at another account; for instance i cannot have the same credit card , or bank account, registered at my yahoo email paypal account if it is currently registered at my yahoo (or let's say, gmail) email paypal account (or if i even had theoretically a 3rd paypal account)-- at least not until i unregister that card number from any & all other paypal accounts (or unlink let us say if it was a bank account , it must be un-linked from any other paypal accounts), since each creditcard or bank account can only link to ONE paypal account at a time, this is for security reasons & our own protection. You must have a separate bank account for each paypal account, each ppl acct can have upto 8 cards linked to it, and those 8 cards can't be shared or linked to any other ppl accts.
SUMMARY--
- So if you live in multiple countries throughout the year, you need to open a paypal account for each place or country & then also open a bank account for each paypal account. Though it need not remain open, if a bank account should be closed, your credit card would then be your default payment method or at login it would tell you that you need to add a card to use as payment ...
...(or sign up for BillMe Later or PayPal-Credit, which I don't like because it often inserts itself as default method so that it creates extra steps at checkout to change to credit card payments--- the best method over a bank debit always, in case any stupidity creeps up over convoluted, drawn out, lengthy returns, especially international ones, it is so much easier to force the refund via a credit card company, bypassing paypal entirely, if necessary-- but when using bank debit, A.K.A. the standard paypal payment method pushed onto everyone as ''preferred'' and safe, actually has NO official guarantees through your bank [debit purchases] after 30 days or 1 month, and that is just NOT acceptable especially i situations of an international purchase, say from China, where it takes 5-6 weeks to even arrive-- AND often costs more in shipping thatn the item is worth, usally also shiping from UK is at least 10 pounds sterling or 15.00 USD, and also often more than an item is worth , or what you paid. With a credit card, there is no haggling over whether this high shipping fee is refundable or not, it just is automatically. If you don't get the item or it is not useable or wrong item, you never pay shipping if you used a credit card through paypal as payment. It's always the best way to go, period.)
