I am trying to pay for something and I enter the persons email address and then it red it says Email Address: Please enter a valid address in the format [email protected]. Ok this happened to me 3 days ago with someone else who also has a valid email address and after 2 days of trying it magically went through (this person is a verified member of paypal). Now it is happening again and customer service is no help. Any thoughts? Should I ask the person to request the money from me? the person I am buying from sent me another address to use and that did not work either!

Now it worked.

I've never had that problem, sorry

Ditto. Haven't run into this issue.

I ran into this problem yesternight and this morning, paying for some CD's.

The thing is, the problem persisted when I highlighted and pasted the email address into paypal. When I typed it manually, it worked.

I don't know if it was by luck that it went through when I typed manually, but maybe that has something to do with it?

Also, I will be back this week. Yay!

When I typed it manually, it worked.

I was just going to suggest trying this.

Tried both but manually maybe a solution. Does the gift option really wave fees?

Spaces also like to appear in copy and paste and are unlikely to be noticed at the end of the address.

Does the gift option really wave fees?

Yes

Yes

Yes but with the caveat that paypal won't offer you anything in the way of protection or means to recover the funds so I'd only advise using it for transactions that you're 100% sure of.

I am 100 percent sure I dont like paypal 75% of the time.

Does the gift option really wave fees?

Hasn't saved myself much with what I have imported.......NO THANKS TO CUSTOMS THAT IS........ANOTHER STORY!!!!!!!!

apparently there is a saving though.........

i hate paypal. refuse to use it anymore.