bidding

[dunfreezing3]

I am new to Ebay, and I have opened an account and paypal account.  I have bid and purchased a couple of items with no problem.  However I attempted to bid on an item today from a company, the next page said something to the effect that the seller would not accept the bid, if a) I did not hold a paypal account or b) if the paypal account was not linked to my Ebay account.  It then prompted me to type in my paypal password (which I did not do, ).  Does anyone know what this means? I dont understand what it means as I have had no problems with other purchased. I am interested in buying the item but didnt like the idea of having to submit my paypal password. Thanks.

[norseway53 · Accepted solution]

You should only ever be asked for your Paypal password when you are going through the official eBay checkout.  You do not need to use a Paypal password just to be able to bid on something.

You may need to link your eBay and Paypal accounts to be able to buy from some sellers, it is a standard setting that many of them use.  To find out how to do this, click on the 'help & contact' link at the foot of the screen and then put "link Paypal account" into the topic bar - you will be shown the relevant help pages.