PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account

Posted by ppc on January 25, 2010 under Frozen Accounts, PPC News | Comments are off for this article

Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors

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Don’t Use PayPal For Haiti Relief Donations

Posted by ppc on January 17, 2010 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

Once again, PayPal’s greed and lack of concern for anything other than their bottom line is exposed.  Technorati sought to find out about fees being charged by contacting several banks and processing organizations.  While other credit card processors are waving fees for donations through specific NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations), PayPal only allows NGOs to apply for discounted transactions as a standard policy. Other credit card processors are also directly donating themselves, but of course PayPal is not.

Read the full story here (written by Mark Underwood)

Free PayPal E-book- How To Protect Yourself From Your Online Bank

Posted by ppc on August 23, 2009 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

The fact that people are writing e-books like this really says something about PayPal.  The e-book is entitled "Doing Business With PayPal- How To Protect Yourself From Your Online Bank". Read more of this article »

Pushy Real Estate Salesman Uses PayPal

Posted by ppc on August 21, 2009 under Scams | Comments are off for this article

A California woman who was trying to sell her timeshare received a call from a Real Estate salesman.  The salesman told her that he wanted the listing, and asked the woman to open a PayPal account and send him a $2,500 retainer. Read more of this article »

PayPal’s Response To “Lack Of Notification Issue”

Posted by ppc on August 15, 2009 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

This is an update to a previous post entitled “PayPal Adds New Fees In An Underhanded Manner“.  The post explained how PayPal added fees to previously free services without notifying their account holders about the new additions. Read more of this article »

New PayPal Development- “Rolling Reserve”

Posted by ppc on August 11, 2009 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

Another slap in the face for sellers using PayPal.  It seems they are now holding a percentage of certain account holders sales before there is ever even a problem. Read more of this article »

PayPal Adds New Fees In An Underhanded Manner

Posted by ppc on August 8, 2009 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

PayPal is apparently charging fees for services that were previously free.   Adding new fees is PayPal’s prerogative.  The problem is, they did not notify their account holders (or anyone else for that matter) of the change in the fee structure.

Read more about it at PCWorld on Jared Newman’s Blog

PayPal Holds $1,000 From New Account

Posted by ppc on August 5, 2009 under Frozen Accounts, PPC News | Comments are off for this article

I opened a PayPal account 7 days ago in order to receive a payment for a laptop PC I was selling on eBay. The buyer transferred $1000 to my account. It’s been nothing but sheer hell ever since. Read more of this article »

PayPal Changes Anti-Gambling Policy

Posted by ppc on July 28, 2009 under PPC News | Comments are off for this article

According to PayPal’s updated “Acceptable Use Policy”, sending or receiving money for gaming is prohibited without PayPal’s approval.  Traditionally, using the PayPal service for gambling in any way was completely prohibited. Read more of this article »