Even if you withdraw it, they can still come after you to get ‘their’ money back. PayPal (in the UK at least) requires a direct debit authorisation to be able to withdraw funds to a bank account. Part of that agreement is that they can also take money from your bank account if they decide to.
My experience with this is that I sold an iMac on eBay, then a week later PayPal informed me that the person who paid in fact has stolen someone else’s login, and so they sent a debt collection agency after me to make me refund the money, even though I no longer had the iMac.
My experience with this is that I sold an iMac on eBay, then a week later PayPal informed me that the person who paid in fact has stolen someone else’s login, and so they sent a debt collection agency after me to make me refund the money, even though I no longer had the iMac.