Forkbeard

I went through this when they closed my account for the crime of being a US citizen. They did refund the money back to the sources of the funds, but that left me swinging in the breeze. What assurance did I have that any of those people would pay me twice, or were willing to pay by some other payment method?

In the event, most of the funds went back to a program with whom I had a decent relationship, and they offered to repatriate the funds to me by another method. But this should have been handled by Paxum, not dropped thoughtlessly on a random affiliate program.

What recourse would I have had, if the affiliate program was one that paid by Paxum only? None; they would have just gotten a bonus from Paxum at my expense.

What recourse would I have had, if the funds were from one of my many one-job-only, pay-in-advance freelance clients? Those guys pay, get what they want, move on. They have no incentive to pay me twice, just because my payment intermediary did something irresponsible. And some of them wouldn't bother, having no enduring business relationship with me.

It is completely unacceptable that Paxum does this. And I scoff at all the dumb-asses who come into these threads and say "they never did anything shady to me" like that means anything. This is called "survivor bias" -- it's like saying "The tornado wasn't all that terrible, my house didn't blow away." No matter how many shredded mobile homes go tumbling past, you're out there standing on the front porch with a Bud Light in your hand saying "Tornado? It's no big deal, my house is good." It's a real dumb-ass argument, but for some reason it's been real common here on GFY for all of the damn near twenty years that I've been here.

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