I need to know if Paypal has stopped blocking my payments to sellers

[intrepixx]

I would like to know if Paypal has fixed their security issues that prevented me from paying a seller on Ebay ?

I need to know if Paypal is going to continue blocking payments made by Visa card holders ?  

I need to know BEFORE I commit to buy, not after since I do NOT want to try and explain to the sellers that this is Paypal not me.

[femmefan1946]

Err.. They are not blocking Visa payments. At least not mine.

Did a seller want you to pay him directly citing this problem?

Is your card information up to date, particularly the expiration ?

Has this happened more than once with different sellers?