Nathan Alvarez92 said:So, I made a payment to a PayPal account, but I totally blanked on entering the model number or the reference code... does PayPal just automatically bounce the money back to the sender, or what actually happens in a mess like this? Basically, the Post Office was supposed to pay the COD amount to my PayPal for a package I sent out, but now the funds are just... nowhere to be found.
I guess you'll probably need to get a receipt from the post office first. Once you have that, if there's no reference number on it, you can basically tell them they'll have to deal with the headache of sorting it out with PayPal themselves to get their money back. Maybe demand that they either pay you immediately or redo it with the correct reference code, or find some other way to fix it right away.
Of course, that assumes you actually told them beforehand which reference number they needed to use. If you didn't, there's a chance it might just end up going into the SoftBank Vision Fund.$33
Anyway, this is a good heads-up for everyone. PayPal isn't a traditional bank account—it doesn't have an IBAN. Even though you can sometimes use a generic payment slip in certain cases, I don't think it's smart to rely too heavily on that if you aren't 100% sure how it works. There's a pretty decent chance things could just get lost in the shuffle.