I have a new tidbit of information to add to the ongoing mystery investigation 🙂 I just tried to use Pay After Delivery (PaD) with a merchant with which I have already used it on a previous transaction. Now, suddenly, it was not available. So, I called PayPal to try and find out what's the story. As usual, they were vague in their responses with respect to PaD. They couldn't tell me why this time it wasn't available. But, they did tell me that PaD is a feature that individual merchants need to sign up for with PayPal. Maybe it's a special further financial check or the service fees are different; I don't know, I'm guessing. Also, I'm also pretty sure that PaD is not offered to all PayPal users. That is, on the consumer's end, you have to have a PayPal account in good standing. I think the best and easiest thing would be if such users had available and would use a modified PayPal logo that indicates that they offer the PaD feature/service. That would really simplify things for consumers who would like to make use of this feature.
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