A few days ago I helped a friend set up a fresh gmail account, godaddy account, hosting, and paypal account, so he could manage his own domain name. When he went to pay for the domain of course, and tried to pay through paypal, it would only let him pay by credit card.
I had already sent enough to his account to cover the domain, but apparently he can only use the account if he has a credit card. WHY ? He chose paypal because he doesn’t have a credit card. If he wanted to pay that way he would have done so on the site without using paypal.
Their customer support sent an email that basically said a credit card is his only option to actually use the account. Useless.