I opened a new PayPal account, my second of two accounts, and used a wire transfer to fund it from a checking account. There were then sufficient funds in this new PayPal account to pay for the items that I subsequently but unsuccessfully tried to order from a merchant. The problem was that I'm required to give a credit card number to PayPal for purposes of authentication even to use a PayPal account intended to be set up and refilled with funds transferred from a bank account. And I gave the same credit card number for both of my PayPal accounts, the old one and the new one. The purchase couldn't go forward until I either closed the old PayPal account, or used a different credit card for the new PayPal account.
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