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9 years ago
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MMMMMKAY so i called again after more concerns and once again, got a completely different answer from a different person. So how I do commissions is gonna change until PP deems me fit to accept my own money without putting holds on it, sticks leggy up
Right now, i'm gonna be going back and contacting people who've commissioned me recently (not including the busts i took yesterday until I get them done) and ask for people who've attached a billing address to mark it as received on their end, since apparently that can help me get access to my held money quicker. From what i've been told, I have to have 90 days of good sales with no complications in order for them to (maybe) give me access to all the funds they're withholding from my balance. I'm assuming all those orders I have "yet to ship out" don't make my account look good lmao. So hopefully customers understand and can help me out on their end with this ;;
I also hope peeps can help me with future commission transactions to help either get this limit increased sooner or lifted entirely. It's all essentially just marking the item as received/shipped on your end so Paypal doesn't think I'm running off with anyone's money and making a bad name for them (even tho they do a good enough job of this themselves l o l)
IT'S JUST...frustrating...apparently after 3 or so months I won't have to worry about this (so they say) since it's all because i'm listed in the system as a new customer, but I literally....LITERALLY.. cannot afford them to keep 100+ dollars from me for 21 days when I need money for food throughout the week. 3 months isn't long to a corporate company but for someone with financial issues (like a lot of other people) 3 months is a TERRIBLY LONG TIME. 6 months is fucking worse.
SO YEAH SORRY THIS GOT VENTY AGAIN but I just want people to know what's up, return customers and new ones alike. There is very little I can do now except go back and get some of these "unshipped" transactions taken care of to clean up my account activity some and just keep this method up until I can either increase it or remove this limit entirely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that being said, work on commissions is gonna be the same. The money gets sent to my account and all so I work right when I get it and send it out when I get it done so the only extra step is the commissioner marking it as received when they get their commission and lemme know if they're happy with it~! I'm still looking into options like squarecash and such since it looks pretty easy and it doesn't seem like people need to have a SquareCash account to use it ??? (im still reading heavily into it to make sure) BUT WE'LL SEE I GUESS
Right now, i'm gonna be going back and contacting people who've commissioned me recently (not including the busts i took yesterday until I get them done) and ask for people who've attached a billing address to mark it as received on their end, since apparently that can help me get access to my held money quicker. From what i've been told, I have to have 90 days of good sales with no complications in order for them to (maybe) give me access to all the funds they're withholding from my balance. I'm assuming all those orders I have "yet to ship out" don't make my account look good lmao. So hopefully customers understand and can help me out on their end with this ;;
I also hope peeps can help me with future commission transactions to help either get this limit increased sooner or lifted entirely. It's all essentially just marking the item as received/shipped on your end so Paypal doesn't think I'm running off with anyone's money and making a bad name for them (even tho they do a good enough job of this themselves l o l)
IT'S JUST...frustrating...apparently after 3 or so months I won't have to worry about this (so they say) since it's all because i'm listed in the system as a new customer, but I literally....LITERALLY.. cannot afford them to keep 100+ dollars from me for 21 days when I need money for food throughout the week. 3 months isn't long to a corporate company but for someone with financial issues (like a lot of other people) 3 months is a TERRIBLY LONG TIME. 6 months is fucking worse.
SO YEAH SORRY THIS GOT VENTY AGAIN but I just want people to know what's up, return customers and new ones alike. There is very little I can do now except go back and get some of these "unshipped" transactions taken care of to clean up my account activity some and just keep this method up until I can either increase it or remove this limit entirely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that being said, work on commissions is gonna be the same. The money gets sent to my account and all so I work right when I get it and send it out when I get it done so the only extra step is the commissioner marking it as received when they get their commission and lemme know if they're happy with it~! I'm still looking into options like squarecash and such since it looks pretty easy and it doesn't seem like people need to have a SquareCash account to use it ??? (im still reading heavily into it to make sure) BUT WE'LL SEE I GUESS
If you click on the little thing that tells you to ship things out
theres an option where it says something along the lines of
"service complete/no need to ship"
the exact words they used.
Or at the least to confirm that they're happy with the product...i'm not entirely sure and unfortunately their site and FAQ section is horribly constructed lol
BUT !! I'm gonna do that with my future commissions and see what come from that and see how exactly the works~!
I was under the impression that if the commissioner sends payment with "No shipping needed" checked, it would avoid all of this. Has that changed with the new accounts?
And holy shit if every artist adopted a new method of transferring money tomorrow, it wouldn't be soon enough. Paypal is okay when it works but getting issues fixed is like pulling teeth. I've heard plenty of great things about Squarecash so if ou decide to try something different, I'm willing to work with it. Best of luck getting everthing sorted!
And I was as well? But from what I learned, this is all happening because i'm in the system as a "new business" and my account is only a month or so old so i'm essentially in a trial phase with what I can do while they monitor me and make sure i'm a reputable business and have no issues. I had a student account before all this and in September they were like "yeah we're getting rid of those so..make a new account lol" and I assumed it would be simple, make the account, move my funds over, get the debit card and wha bam BUT NOW I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF TO PAYPAL THAT I'M WORTHY OF EVEN TOUCHING ALL OF MY MONEY.
YEAH SERIOUSLY LMAO. Like I wasn't too open to other methods because paypal never gave me a reason to consider switching but :^) now I just want to get as far away from them as possible. It's reassuring to hear that Squarecash has been a good alternative for both commissioners and artists, and I really appreciate you willing to work with me through all this, if it comes to me finding alternative methods of transferring money ;; <3 Thank yah for all the kind words!!
Ive heard of an app called Ko-Fi that's kinda like paypal, I don't know if it works the same way but it might be worth checking out as an alternative for now. Also squarecash is good, I know a few people who use that. I hope everything gets figured out soon.
The only thing I can do right now is ask for people to mark it as shipped either right after they pay me (which I feel iffy about) so it's done right then and there, or after sending them their commission. I hate being a bother to people and make them go back and mark it as received and such but I really don't know what to do at this point. From what i'm getting, I have to work for 3 weeks and only get paid once a month. Which puts me and my family in a horribly sticky spot ;;
Too bad Paypal is butts.
thank you so much tho for being willing to help me out! ;v;/