Nick's dashboard

I believe that have a minimum age requirement. I'm not certain about that but you might want to look into it. That could be why you're having problems. Good luck! – Amy Muller, on July 14, 2008 18:33

OK, I guess this is because I had a repeating todo item. Not anymore - moved it to Backpack. We'll see what happens now.

You've listed this as an idea/feature request, but I would call it a bug. The emails I receive from Sandy constantly have something like this in the footer:

It's been a couple of days without anything to include in your Daily Digest. Rather than continuing to send you an empty digest every day, I'm going to hold off until there's something on your calendar, in your to-do list, or otherwise appropriate to send on.

It's been a week since I've had anything to include in your Daily Digest. I won't keep peppering you with reminders [...] I leave you to your inbox and will be back in touch when there's something on your calendar, in your to-do list, or otherwise appropriate to send on.

Sandy knows she is sending me empty emails, and she keeps saying "I won't send any more emails", but then another email comes anyway.

If you have added your mobile number to your Facebook profile, you can also login by typing your phone number (no spaces, no dashes, etc.) anywhere it asks for your email address. Since my phone number is faster to type than my email address, this is how I always login. I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, but it's worth a shot.

Yes, it's incredibly bad...

I'm sorry to hear other people are experiencing this same frustration.

The real reason I used the PayPal Debit Card was for the cashback rewards. I ended up signing up for a Capital One card and the rewards are pretty similar. I don't know if this is still available now, but I'm getting 1.25% cashback on all purchases with no annual fee, no limit on cashback, and no expiration. The real reason why I'm using the Capital One card, though, is because they credit your cashback monthly and you can redeem at any amount by going online and just clicking a button to redeem (and/or you can also set it up to automatically redeem during a certain month or a certain dollar amount). I haven't had any problems so far and I'm not really missing PayPal.

Wow...I found this site in a search for "paypal debit card declined backup funding" and it appears I'm not the only one having this EXACT problem. I have gotten so many different stories from Paypal, usually revolving around the whole idea of "resetting" your backup funding source. Like Nick, I can't do this because I had two transactions that actually WORKED properly...leaving the PayPal reps to the insane notion that I have "a backup funding limit of $6.89." Um, yeah. Have they checked their own web site to see that this isn't really possible (because of the $200 increments)?

My problem began about two months ago (May/June) and still hasn't been resolved. There is obviously something horribly wrong with the whole backup funding system, and none of the PayPal reps appear to understand that it is a huge problem for customers like me who use their PayPal debit card for recurring charges such as gym membership, NetFlix, etc. The best thing about the backup funding is that although you get an immediate notification to your email that something has been charged, you have a couple of days to make sure the funding is available in your bank account when it does the backup withdrawal. This has worked FLAWLESSLY for me for more than a year. Then, suddenly, I am having the exact problem Nick describes, in almost the exact same form.

Count me as a very frustrated customer, who has been with PayPal for 7 years now, and who hopes they eventually train their CSRs about backup funding and how it works (or doesn't).

On screen, my account shows that I have a $1,000 backup funding limit, linked to my bank account which is completely and perfectly active.

When a rep looks at it, they only see the "available" limit, which at the moment tonight is $6.89.

So as I told the latest/greatest rep..."there is something deeply, horribly wrong, way down in the bowels of the system, and NOBODY is detecting it."

I hope they can figure out where my extra $994 of backup funding has been hiding, because the credit card authorization system isn't seeing it!

One thing you could try is removing your router, connecting your computer directly to the Internet/cable modem/DSL modem to see if the Linksys router is really causing the problem. – Nick, on July 10, 2008 17:35

While their online banking looks nice, it helps if it's functional as well. WaMu recently did a security upgrade to their online banking system with more sophisticated encryption. This is all well and good, to protect my account (more like protecting themselves from fraud), but since this upgrade occurred, I can no loner make use of the online service.

After logging in, I can usually see what my account balances are, but I can't ever get any further than that. The connection times out and I get that all-too-familiar "page cannot be displayed" error. I use Firefox by default, but even IE cannot access this.

The reason they give is that their new system has issues with some Linksys routers, apparently, their new encryption is too sophisticated, so they suggest upgrading the firmware on the router - great, but there hasn't been a firmware upgrade to my specific model for two years. If I were having issues with more sites, I would consider this a Linksys problem and upgrade my router to something newer, but *all* other SSL sites work perfectly!

Quite honestly, it would be much less hassle to switch banks than it would be to buy a new router. I want to make sure they know that when I eventually close my accounts with them.

Wow, that's great to hear. Maybe they are shaping up... – Nick, on July 10, 2008 16:16

That's good to know. I'll keep it in mind – db0, on July 10, 2008 12:05

Hello there!

Good news for everybody. I had the same problem, but just I recoved my account and all emails and data. This it's the link i used: http://www.google.com/support/account...

10 minutes after I filled this form I received an email from google that the account has been activated.

Good luck!

I have been having the same problem the last two months.

I fear there isn't much hope..

Good point, Thomas. We've probably got a lot of legacy topics that need status updates. Feel free to point them out to us as you come across them. :) – Amy Muller, on July 01, 2008 19:23