I have just completely lost the plot with paypal

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and told them that if I don't get a suitable response from them within 48 hours, I shall be contacting the "consumer champion" in the Sunday post!
They have limited my account because they think someone tried to hack into it last week "because we noticed several attempts to change your details ". Well yes, that was me, because their system wouldn't let me change my address details because "it doesn't correspond with the address registered for your credit card" and wouldn't let me change my card details becaus ethe address didn't match. They attempted to take several payments of £2.50 from my card. I emailed them several times about this, and they kept saying "there is no reference of any payments from your PAYPAL account", they didn't seem to grasp that it wasn't my paypal account I was having the problems with, it was my bank card. The number of times the money was requested corresponded to the amount of attempts It took e to change my address, and the same thing happened to DH's card when he changed his over (without any problems I might add)
I now have quite a lot of money in my paypal acocunt that I want to transfer across to my bank acocunt in time for us going away on the 20th, but the account islimted and I ahve to wait for a letter with a verification code on it to arrive, which I have to enter into my account, then have to wait UP TO 30 DAYs for them to decide if I'm legit or not.
Ok rant over, I'll wait and see if they get back to me

I've had SO many problems with paypal since February now!
Given up all hope to be honest.
My account isn't register as verified even though it is.
It keeps preventing me from selling things on Ebay!!
AARRRGGGHHH

Paypal are shite

oh bad luck. our account was locked last year too. can't remeber why, but because we get at least one email a day which says "your paypal account is limited" we ignored it. they are bastards.

I bet you don't hear from them at all, never mind within 48 hours.

I will get on to the Sunday post though. It's a Scottish sunday paper with a consumer champion section. he's really good, gets things sorted. It's their incompetance that has caused this, not mine

ooh califrau is it good for getting money from one currency to another then?

oh cool - glad it arrived and also thought he might enjoy the stamps - practically snatched the letter from the post office lady so I could put real stamps on it rather than a boring old frank or whatever they're called!