How to Tell Who Buys Something From You in PayPal
Using PayPal to take the hassle out of authorizing credit cards or waiting for paper payments can mean the difference between getting your items out to buyers within minutes, not days. If you sell a lot, or frequently, your email inbox could become cluttered with "You have received a payment" notices from PayPal. Because payment emails come from PayPal, which acts as a sort of escrow holder and intermediary, you can't tell immediately who has sent you payment when you look at the list of messages in your inbox. You must view each PayPal message to do the detective work of searching for a buyer's name.
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Open the email account associated with your PayPal account.
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Look for an email with "PayPal" in the "Sender" or "From column" of your email client. The subject of the email will be "You have received an authorized payment from..." This subject line may be shortened by your email application.
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Open the email. The full title of the email will display the payee's name in the "authorized payment from..." line.
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Review the email, which will have the buyer's full name in the body of the text. Check the bottom left corner of the email (formatting may vary from one email client to another) for the buyer's name and mailing address.
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