Help with Paypal issue, please?

[SheltieLover]

Hi All,

So, against my better judgment, I made a Paypal account and it worked fine for its intended purpose. Until it didn't as of last week.

It keeps asking me to add a card, but when I do, it tells me it's been added successfully, but that they cannot use it right now.

So I called Paypal yesterday & the lady told me it's because I'm in "Dominica." I told her I've not been out of the country in over 10 years and no way woud I create an account in another country. Then I asked her why now when it's been working fine over several weeks.

She giggle and said sometimes their system randomly checks things.

So she deleted my old account, I recreated a new one, making sure it had the American flag showing at the bottom, put in my card, and again having the same problem.

If I didn't owe a vendor money, I would write the whole damned thing off. Permanently. I've lived a lot of years without a Paypal account, now this mess...

Any ideas what's going on or how to resolve it? I've informed the vendor I will likely just have to mail a check and am happy to do so.

Has anyone else had such a problem? If so, how did you finally resolve it?

TYIA!