So I plan on buying an adoptable art piece.
Thing is I use disposable gift cards to make online purchases. I have a 30 and 25 dollar card linked to my PayPal. Which is enough to buy the adoption...unless I want a ref sheet too.
Since both cards are on the PayPal, if I pay more than what's on the 30$ card will it take the remaining bit from the 25? Or do I need to convince the artist to accept two separate payments?

As you might notice, a bit of a PayPal noob...

Esme_Belles said:
So I plan on buying an adoptable art piece.
Thing is I use disposable gift cards to make online purchases. I have a 30 and 25 dollar card linked to my PayPal. Which is enough to buy the adoption...unless I want a ref sheet too.
Since both cards are on the PayPal, if I pay more than what's on the 30$ card will it take the remaining bit from the 25? Or do I need to convince the artist to accept two separate payments?

As you might notice, a bit of a PayPal noob...

If I recall correctly, if one card is not enough it will draw from the other. I am not entirely sure though because I never used disposable cards.
Just remember do not include "FA", "furaffinity", or variants of it or paypal will get angry about it.

Chaser said:
If I recall correctly, if one card is not enough it will draw from the other. I am not entirely sure though because I never used disposable cards.
Just remember do not include "FA", "furaffinity", or variants of it or paypal will get angry about it.

Yeah I never put what it's for, just the sellers name, and something like "for services rendered" or "auction bid" and only if I have been told to do so..

As for your answer, there's backup payment options...but I'm not sure if you can do it and have it take from both cards, I'm worried it will try to take from one, can't, and then.try to take from the other and also fail.
I imagine without some warning it would seriously tick off the merchant

Blah! Apparently the answer is what I feared.
PayPal will try to use one card, fail to get The correct amount and then go to the backup payment option and also fail, which rejects the purchase. *Grumbles*

You can always tell paypal to fill itself directly from whatever source you want, so just take the gift cards and add those amounts to your PayPal balance.
The option should be called "add funds" or something, then just feed whatever is on your gift cards to paypal and paypal will use these to pay anything.

NotMeNotYou said:
You can always tell paypal to fill itself directly from whatever source you want, so just take the gift cards and add those amounts to your PayPal balance.
The option should be called "add funds" or something, then just feed whatever is on your gift cards to paypal and paypal will use these to pay anything.

Would, and tried before asking the question here. They want a valid last four of my ssn. Not happening.

Esme_Belles said:
Would, and tried before asking the question here. They want a valid last four of my ssn. Not happening.

you can trust in paypal completely. its about as secure as any bank.

What Mutisija said, they are a bank, they operate as a bank, they need to know you're a real person and must be able to nail you if you try to launder money through them.
Accepting stolen money is an extremely bad thing to do for a bank (or even merchants) so of course they want to cover their asses, and that is one of these ways to do that.

Esme_Belles said:
Would, and tried before asking the question here. They want a valid last four of my ssn. Not happening.

Its the last 4 digits of your SSN, not the end of the world. In Elementary School, we used those 4 digits as a lunch account number. Nobody can do anything with those four digits. There's still 5 others they need if they truly wanted to "steal your identity", which is not what PayPal does. Like others have said, they're a bank, and must operate as such. Its the same as opening a checking or savings account.

Mutisija said:
you can trust in paypal completely. its about as secure as any bank.

I've been using PayPal for a few years, when it comes to selling my extra Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh! cards on eBay.

I'll probably see more use out of it when I feel ready to do commissions. But before that, I have to *ahem*.