New (to me) paypal requirement for paying F&F (1 Viewer)

[DrStrange]

Just ran into a new requirement from paypal to pay via friends and family. I was required to input the first and last name of the account holder to pay the man his monies for a few chips.

Maybe this has been in place for a while, but I was able to send money just a few days ago to @David O without getting a request for that information. I had sent money to him previously, so maybe that was different.

 

[Tommy]

I was required to input the first and last name of the account holder

I got that a few times. The email address was wrong. Double check for any typos.

 

[catalyzeme]

I've had it happen once when sending to someone in another country (Canada).

 

[DrStrange]

Tommy has the answer. A bad email address causes this request to happen.

 

[moose]

PayPal is making it very difficult. For me, it defaults to paying for an item or service and you have to manually change it to f&f.

 

[Tommy]

PayPal is making it very difficult. For me, it defaults to paying for an item or service and you have to manually change it to f&f.

I have a feeling that PayPal will become a goods and services only payment processor and will force the friends and family payments to their Venmo social media platform.

 

[justsomedude]

PayPal is making it very difficult. For me, it defaults to paying for an item or service and you have to manually change it to f&f.

I've been finding this happening to me as well as of late. To make matters worse I've been running into a "glitch" where, when I try to change the payment method to F&F, the page pretends to load the new method, but then reverts back to Goods and Services as if I hadn't done anything at all. This has happened to me twice in the last week and it's driving me a little bonkers.

 

[moose]

For me, I clicked on the setting to change it and it sent the payment instead.

 

[Poker Zombie]

 

[SixSpeedFury]

I have a feeling that PayPal will become a goods and services only payment processor and will force the friends and family payments to their Venmo social media platform.

This is exactly what's going to happen.