PayPal IPN Authentication

[Klown]

Hey guys. I'm new to Paypals IPN so heres the situation im having:

I have a game setup which I am selling virtual currency. When a player buys your virtual currency, and completes paypals payment form, paypal sends a callback to your specified document. lets call this: authorize.php. paypal sends a few variables so you know how to respond to the purchase and are able to authenticate it, one of which is "Status", normally during the authentication process you should verify status == "Completed" but for some reason every payment notification paypal sends me is status == "Pending" and although these payments are eventually changed to "Completed" I dont understand why they are "Pending" and do not want to process every transaction as though it were completed if the status is pending.

Likewise I do not want to have players buying game currency and having to wait for their transaction because of a paypal issue.

Any help would be appreciated, if there are additional details required, please ask.

Thanks in advance,

Dustin

[Callan S.]

That's probably paypal not trusting your account yet.

That's what happens when a company gets too big/used by alot of people - they start acting like they will do with you as they wish. Well, that's my political rant, anyway!