http://www.paypal8.com/does-verifying-a-credit-card-on-paypal-show-the-cards-entire-balance.html PayPal Blog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:14:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.paypal8.com/does-verifying-a-credit-card-on-paypal-show-the-cards-entire-balance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1953 Dan B Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:31:25 +0000 http://www.paypal8.com/does-verifying-a-credit-card-on-paypal-show-the-cards-entire-balance.html#comment-1953 Verifying a card just means that you are proving that you are the owner of the card and that it is against a valid account. They have no clue as to your balance. Verifying a card just means that you are proving that you are the owner of the card and that it is against a valid account. They have no clue as to your balance.

]]> http://www.paypal8.com/does-verifying-a-credit-card-on-paypal-show-the-cards-entire-balance.html/comment-page-1#comment-1952 efflandt Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:55:04 +0000 http://www.paypal8.com/does-verifying-a-credit-card-on-paypal-show-the-cards-entire-balance.html#comment-1952 You should not have to transfer anything "to" PayPal (it normally only shows a balance if you sell something). If you buy something, they will automatically take payment from your default payment method or whatever account you have linked to them and select during checkout. So they do not know what balance you have in any verified account. But if the payment method you use has insufficient funds for payment, they will try one of your alternate payment methods. You should not have to transfer anything “to” PayPal (it normally only shows a balance if you sell something). If you buy something, they will automatically take payment from your default payment method or whatever account you have linked to them and select during checkout.
So they do not know what balance you have in any verified account. But if the payment method you use has insufficient funds for payment, they will try one of your alternate payment methods.

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