I signed up when it was just a nice payment 
confirmation service--so-and-so has sent you 
payment through us.  That was fine.  Then no one 
bought anything from me through ebay that used 
paypal for about a year, until someone does want 
to use it, and i say fine, its all good...  

So I go in there to get confirmation, and um... 
ok, now they have my money in my paypal 
account... which I guess is ok, I'll just have it 
direct deposited into my checking account.  Easy.

Only its not.  They can't seem to get it right.  
All the numbers are correct, they just can't do 
it.

Ok, I'll take the charge and just have them send 
me a money order, right?  But I'm at college, so 
they refuse to send it to a non-primary address.  
So I change my primary address, but that's no 
good, because now its an unconfirmed address that 
they refuse to send anything to. Oh, and since 
that is now my primary address, I can't send it 
to any other address either, even my home one.

So for a while I just figured I'd buy the first 
thing that appealed to me on ebay within the 
amount on my paypal account to at least be able 
to use it.  But that seemed kindof wrong, so I 
tried the bank account thing yet again.   Finally 
went through all right. 

This is nearly 2 months after the original 
payment was issued to me.

Now paypal is badgering me to verify my bank 
account so I can withdraw large amounts from it 
into my paypal account, but frankly, I refuse to 
because I don't trust paypal with that sort of 
information.  I'd rather just send money orders 
and have the extra delay... because a week is 
still a lot shorter than two frigging months.

grr... down with paypal!!!