I changed my Email address with Ebay and Paypal as I was moving to another ISP, sold an item the other day only to find that payment has been attributed to my old Email address and I cannot access the payment - upon contacting paypal the answer was to reinstate the old Email address - and bizarely they couldnt understand why I didnt want a now defunct (and probably reassigned - as it was an early common name address) email address reinstated to the account and denied they had a responsibility to remove account details, that are no longer required, under GDPR regulation - there is no complaints procedure and if you try asking them about the financial ombudsman you will find that, according to their advisors they are not part of Ebay and not regulated by the financial services authority. I am sure this must have happened to others and would be interested to know where this held cash (in my account regardless of the now uused email address) ends up.
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