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this is the craziest thing I've ever encountered...usually there is some consistency...but all I seem to find is a mish-mash of contradictory policies, etc...
For example, if I go onto ebay, which owns paypal, there is some (quite a lot) of hard-core material that is sold via paypal.
in other words, the owner of paypal uses paypal to traffic in hard core pornography...yet I'm penalised for a site in which there is no sex (that is, no penetration).
Some distinction has been made above for digital goods v. physical goods (DVDs etc), but paypal's acceptable use policy makes no such distinction and merely disallows sexual oriented material. It does not make exceptions for hard goods, or for US v. non-US goods.
What the hell is "sexually oriented" material. You and your kids can see some very sexually oriented material on TV, including, I believe, some frontal nudity.
Paypal promotes an image of good, clean, wholesome...but it has been suggested (not by me, but elsewhere) that Paypal may be the direct opposite of that good and clean, engaging perhaps in fraudalent activity by freezing countless accounts and holding the money for 180 days at their "sole discretion"...I am not at all sure that this premise of claiming "sole discretion" is legal...even paypal have to abide by the laws of the land...I think a good lawyer could show that their terms of acceptable use is a mockery.
But coming back to ebay...clearly paypal traffics in pornography...so where does that leave their high and mighty Acceptable Use Policy? And more to the point...how can I use this to get my money back???
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