>PayPal is in the business of efficiently detecting and not paying for fraud. I think it is likely that since PayPal has become an Ebay property, they are tigh

>PayPal is in the business of efficiently detecting and not paying for fraud. I think it is likely that since PayPal has become an Ebay property, they are tighter with releasing funds to reduce their losses related to "Ebay Buyer Protection" on Ebay sales. On a sale where that protection is provided, a purchaser gets his money back from Ebay (which generally means paypal) when buyers have failed to deliver what was promised and failed to work out the problem directly. So Ebay/PayPal needs/wants to be able to snatch the cash back. If the funds are held long enough, they're covered. I seem to recall Ebay recently updating their user agreement terms related to PayPal funds. I doubt that PayPal is trying to rip off or upset customers. They're trying to combat various types of theft/fraud and do so without using much in the way of resources. They should be more transparent with whatever is going on though.