Quote:
Originally posted by Phoenix66
And something about PayPal.
I had my account blocked once. But I sent all papers they were asking for and it was unblocked in 3 days. That was 1.5 year ago.
Just a few weeks ago they caught me on adult content transactions and shut the account down. And know what? They kindly agreed to send a rest of money by wire as I asked instead of sending the check. And more than that - they told me I can open another account, as long as will not be using it for adult. I probably won't anuway, because it's almost useless for me without being allowed to receive money for adult deals.
I had a debit card from them as well. And the funniest thing is that I was accessing it and withdrawing cash all the time from restricted country (though account was opened legally - I was in USA then).
So I don't believe most of these scary stories about PayPal. It's just a matter of how lucky are you with support (they have a lot of stuff and it seems that different people supervise different account sets). And how tolerant and skillfull you are in dealing with clerks.
BTW - I also do not think PayPal can earn anything from the money they block. I think it's just prohibited by financial regulations. Why else would they ask for separate agreement for Money Market? They ask for it because they are restricted to make interest from clients money without special clients permition.
|
Read from the above email:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance and placed on Limited Access status
To restore your account to its regular status, you must complete the
following steps:
1. Change your PayPal password
2. Change your security questions and answers
3. Contact PayPal Customer Service
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What part of this didn't you understand? My point: they select random accounts and just place it on "limited access".
Figure this: you go to your bank and a person tells you that they have randomly selected your account and froze it. If you still want your money (maybe you need to do an urgent payment ?!?!?!) oyu need to change your cc pin, security question and contact their support departement, ON A SUNDAY.
So there you are, no money, payment can't be made and all because they randomly selected you.
NOW you get my point? The way they work sucks, bigtime.
EDIT: nobody should force me or anybody to change pass and security question, that's just plain fucking stupid.
About 2 hours after that you recieve an email saing "thank you for the fax". I NEVER send any fax. I just recieved this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for contacting PayPal.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We have
not received any faxes on your account and I apologize. To restore
full access to your PayPal account your can change your Password and
Security Questions and add a credit card to your PayPal account.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us
again.
Sincerely,
Bridgett
PayPal Account Review Department
PayPal, an eBay Company
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So now i gotto add a credit card............. AGAIN???
And we got to trust those people with our money? Common people.