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Paypal is a fraud in terms of being a bank. Ebay owns Paypal and has managed to cover up massive fraud occurring on their site. There should be regulations in this type of banking to protect customers. We are done … Continue reading
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I have had my account restricted by paypal for over a year now. I keep asking for a reason and all they say is I am deemed too high risk. I have only every recived Positive feedback from eBay, and … Continue reading
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We are a small textile maufacturer in Bolton Lancs. Nowa days we survive on selling on the Net with ebay and paypal. We have been kicked out of paypal and ebay due to “high Risk”assesment by them. They have kept … Continue reading
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Funds were frozen even though they had the ups confirmation it was delivered. I called them for 2 days and nothing happened. A week later some higher up called and wanted to know where I got certain mechandise. I sent … Continue reading
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Was selling the first muzzle brake for the mosin m91/30 russian rifle on e bay, and was doing well.Got my own site on godaddy because I wanted to show the brake on the gun ,which you cannot do on ebay.God … Continue reading
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pay pal froze my account after everything was going great on ebay i had a really good month and was looking forward to taking some money out .after i took 100 out of my account i got an email stating … Continue reading
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My eBay account and PayPal were closed after a buyer posted a negative comment accusing me of fraud!! What happened is: item got lost, I made a refund and asked her to remove comment, I even asked eBay to remove … Continue reading
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Hi guys. I recently had $300 taken out of my paypal account for an item that never arrived to receiver. Paypal sent emails about the dispute which I never knew about then charged me for it. After standing my ground … Continue reading
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Rec’d notice of interest in my item from Diana Timson -PayPal advised me to send $1500 to shipping agent before receiving my $3500 for my item, a Dobro Hawaiian Guitar. Agent: Khristy James, 5127 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19131, USA. … Continue reading
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I sold numerous clothing and jewelry items on EBAY after christSOLD NUMEROUS CLOTHING AND JEWELLERY ITEMS ON EBAY AFTER CHRISTMAS THAT WHERE GIVEN AS GIFTS AS I NEED THE CASH. THEY THEN SENT ME AN EMAIL DEMANDING RECEIPTS FOR ALL … Continue reading
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I SOLD NUMEROUS ITEMS ON EBAY RECENTLY AND WAS THEN ASKED TO PROVIDE RECEIPTS FOR THE ITEMS, THEY WERE XMAS PRESENTS I DIDNT WANT TO KEEP, SO I DIDNT HAVE ANY RECEIPTS, THEY HAVE NOW DECIDED TO CLOSE MY ACCOUNT … Continue reading
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I used PayPal this week for the first time, and it was a very unpleasant experience. The transaction that PayPal was supposed to conduct for me and forward to the merchant was not completed and I’m at a loss on … Continue reading
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I want to close the account. I have 0 balance and no liability. I have tried to call and then tried to contact though customer services. They hung up on me. I donot know why are they doing this? Submitted … Continue reading
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I sold on ebay after having my business account for 4 years everything was going great until the sales started to get into the thousands selling laptops and accessaries my account was frozen with no explanation even after giving them … Continue reading
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They called me and said I owe them money. WELL I DON’T, Paypal sucks. Submitted By:: Beverly Perry Location-: Venice, Fl
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Their terms were vague and unclear to me then yesterday a lady at paypal explained that because I had a problem purchase with them that every person who logged onto paypal through my Pc have had their accounts suspended. It … Continue reading
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I Have a registered business in Australia with an ABN and I own an online store. My business Paypal was set up, all working fine. Then Paypal sent me a message requiring me to supply my “Supplier Information” my “Tracking … Continue reading
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i am a or should i say i was a new seller on ebay for about the last 2 weeks. had about 10-12 sells.100% positive feedback on all those. no complaints at all. all that had bought from me told … Continue reading
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I began to scale back my ebay addiction, and did not use it for about 6 months. The first transaction I made when I really needed something I got an email saying “due to account inactivity, your account has been … Continue reading
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I used Paypal to deal with business transactions and to purchase & sell on eBay. Everything was fine until they decided to permanently limit my account because I had two previous PayPal accounts with the same details from a few … Continue reading
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on feb 6 th i have ordered an item but still i did not receive that so i need my money back Submitted By:: sundeep Location-: united kingdom
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Paypal has been sending me limit warnings and wants me to either give them my bank account number or get their credit card. I don’t want a new credit card, so I thought I would verify with my bank account. … Continue reading
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I had a PayPal account years ago and then didn’t use it and then I started using eBay again and forgot my old PayPal details and just opened another and I used it to buy stuff from eBay only, got … Continue reading
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I have been selling on ebay for 3 years and pull in approximately 1K a month. Not much, but it helps to pay for the simple bills and the savings adds up. One fine morning, I sold a shirt that … Continue reading
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Had a Paypal account for many years, until they made a misguided decision to block my account, as well as all future accounts. I say their decision was misguided because they erroneously believed that I was selling a prohibited item. … Continue reading
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PayPal, out of the blue, said that they had linked my account to another account that had money owing on it. I had no idea what they were talking about. They shut my account down for this with no way … Continue reading
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i’ve had paypal for the past year with no problems except the occasional limited access bull,but no big deal right?,now ive been the “buyer”this whole time and as soon as i “sell” something the same day i recieve payment my … Continue reading
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It was my wife’s account that got terminated. Had $300 on her account and tried to withdraw it to her bank. A couple minutes later, paypal sent a message that expired. It happens that she lost her card a couple … Continue reading
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Yesterday i received an email from paypal telling me that my account under has been closed. I am a freelance graphic designer, i’ve been using paypal to got paid for more than 3 years. i received a payment from my … Continue reading
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Strongly recommend DO NOt use PAYPAL in any way. I had to since ebay has no other option. I ordered some medicine for my mom they cancelled my transaction, limited my account, froze everything, close my paypal credit card, messed … Continue reading
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Sold a Rolex watch to a person who contacted me after the listing on ebay ended with the watch not sold on ebay. Emailed back and forth with the fellow making offers. I agree to his price as long as … Continue reading
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Timeline: 2003-ish, Used my well-established and often-used Paypal account to purchase access to a website that turned out to be really shady and have sexual content. Continued to use Paypal on the level until 2007, when I got scammed by … Continue reading
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Buyer noted: The Item didn’t suit his garage door opener, then he claimed that the item is faulty, than claims it’s not according to description, then posts it back, damaged and wrapped in used toilet/nose cleaned paper. I Told the … Continue reading
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After being a customer on PayPal for over ten years, I was recently unable to satisfy a claim against a non delivering seller (I had to eat $200) then a couple of months later, limited by paypal because of a … Continue reading
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I am a Canadian and I have a Society registered in Alberta, Canada. We help Cuba but no Americans are involved, neither do we enter the U.S. territory. I had an account for a while, to which Canadians sent donations … Continue reading
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I had only been selling for 3 weeks when my listings were cancelled, and I received the message “indefinite selling retstriction.” After getting the run around, I finally spoke to someone who stated that someone complained and the person who … Continue reading
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I closed my account back in Dec of 2011 for two reasons. First – I was very angry. I was ripped off by an online company, and Paypal said they couldn’t or wouldn’t do anything about it because it was … Continue reading
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Several years ago I got a credit card through PayPal. Paid it off years ago and never used it, but did not close the account. Every time I make a purchase, Pay Pal tries to lure me into using the … Continue reading
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I deposited 1k in my account around Christmas this year in hopes of buying my daughter a laptop. As it turned out I couldn’t use pay pal as first expected. As a long time pay pal user I didn’t think … Continue reading
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Paypal shut me down because I had a month of $50,000 in sales. They will not renew my account and I have had every new account I create with them shut down. I am missing out on business as I … Continue reading
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Hm.. paypal, what can i say, they just block my money, no reasonable explain about this, then ebay block my account because i could’t pay my ebay seller fees, and from this i lose a lot of money, still waiting … Continue reading
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I STARTED AN ACCOUNT WITH PAYPAL 1 AND 1/2 YEAYS AGO THEY ASKED QUESTIONS I ANSWERED THEM GAVE THEM WHAT THEY WANTED ,I WAS IN OK THEN THEY TOLD ME THAT I WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THEM MY BANK ACCOUNT … Continue reading
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Paypal limted my account with £1700 in it, i had 100% feedback on ebay and no one complained, ebay took it onto themselves to send out emails to all my buyers telling them that i am a fraudulent seller and … Continue reading
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I am a old guy living on a very small social security check. Six years ago I made up my own web site and started to sell DVDs and access to sections of the site. And I also sold on … Continue reading
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Abot six months ago, I sold a set of sterling silverware worth $150. The auction went well and I ignored the fact that the buyer had only one comment (new buyer). Days after they received the item, a credit card … Continue reading
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Paypal closed my account (without any explanation or right of appeal) and they disputed two of my recent transactions when I was buying items for $200 and $500. Even though the money has been already with the sellers , Paypal … Continue reading
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I am honestly innocent. I have used paypal for 2 years, and yesterday they just limited my account for no reason. They also will not give me a reason. They gave me a list of things it could be such … Continue reading
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My eBay account was suspended for further verification and was reinstated after a week. Before suspension, I sold 3 items through eBay Germany, and eBay simply refunded the money to the buyers even after I have marked listings as dispatched. … Continue reading
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I have been using EBay for years and PayPal for several years. E-Boo-Boo has now teamed up with Pay-Poo-Poo. I have never liked E-boo-boo’s “leave a f’n comment” and when Pay-poo-poo recently decided to hold MY MONEY I posted to … Continue reading
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After having no problems with ebay/paypal for years, an item wasnt received by an ebay customer who complained to ebay prior to xmas. The customer was refunded. Paypal asked for the standard docs following limiting my account. These were verified … Continue reading
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I created an account and upon returning to the site, my password is never accepted. After going through the create a new password drill a few times, I tried to contact them. Simple fix right? Wow, you can really tell … Continue reading
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The software I purchased was misrepresented. I wanted Microsoft Project Profession, the latest version but recieved the academic version which is of no use to me. Complained to paypal and willing to pay to ship back but paypal would not … Continue reading
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Please write the NY TImes business section consumer advocate and tell him about this. He’s investigating it now. Please don’t barrage him with other Paypa issues. This is just about a suddden withholding on your account even tho you have … Continue reading
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I had been using eBay selling DVDs for about 3 years. In August 2011 I started selling a particular exercise equipment. Within 1 month, PayPal had limited my account then closed it with no chance of appeal! I have now … Continue reading
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I sold electronics on ebay for years. But as soon as I hit $20k per month in sales the problems began with paypal. Where are getting your goods? Prove they aren’t stolen. Give us all your personal and business information … Continue reading
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I have been using Paypal’s website payment standard to accept payment for my products online. All was well, except I didn’t like customers being forwarded to paypal’s site to do final payment, I wanted the whole checkout streamlined on my … Continue reading
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I have been using Paypal since 2009 via Ebay. I’ve had a 100% positive feedback. Sold over 47 items, but received feedback for 47. In September 2011, I too received an email from Paypal stating they were putting me on … Continue reading
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i have been a long standing member of ebay/paypal, and a few months ago they started putting a 21day hold on my funds. The excuse they gave was i did not have 25feedback score in 1 yr. I have sold … Continue reading
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I purchased an item for $19.41 through BUY-IT-NOW PayPal. My bank statement showed two withdrawals for this amount, two days apart. My PayPal account only showed one. Soooooooo, I spent a helluva lot of time talking to CSR people on … Continue reading
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I purchased an item for $19.41 through BUY-IT-NOW PayPal. My bank statement showed two withdrawals for this amount, two days apart. My PayPal account only showed one. Soooooooo, I spent a helluva lot of time talking to CSR people on … Continue reading
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I have tried to open a paypal account for our new business, after jumping through several hoops with paypal in order to begin trading. Once I finally began trading, with around $800 in my paypal account, paypal sent me an … Continue reading
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The whole story in short : My company had a business paypal account. Absolutly genuine business- wholesale /export. Because a payment received from a customer from other country paypal closed my account with no reason and no explanation why…The simply … Continue reading
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Bought 70£ sunglasses. Item arrived broken. FIlled a claim. After exhasperating weeks I won the claim. Paypal sent the refund to the wrong account! Filled several claims about this, never received the refund and the case got lost in time. … Continue reading
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I have just had my long-term PayPal account frozen and canceled. I usually transact between $10 and $20,000 per month on my account for rent paid to me for apartments I own. I had a fundraising on line to purchase … Continue reading
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Paypal Limited my account, sent me an email. I called, they said I had multiple accounts with negative balances. I advised that I had not opened any of them, and how could we resolve this, and was told, essentially, “too … Continue reading
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hi, I logged in to pay for an ebay item and found i couldnt. Message saying I appear to have more than one account and one appears to have engaged in activity that violates user agreement and they’ve restricted both. … Continue reading
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My brother and I live in the same house. We sometimes use the same computer which means that we often log in with the same IP address. PayPal was under the assumption that we were doing something fraudulent. I can … Continue reading
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This concerns PayPal Europe and eBay UK. Sold 12 items on eBay. Bought about 20 things on eBay. Never had 1 single problem. 100% feedback for both buying and selling. Had 3 items out for delivery (which, as always, I … Continue reading
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my ebay account was suspended because i did not pay my bill the reason i did not pay my bill was because paypal closed my account that was configured to be taken out automatically i fell into difficulties a few … Continue reading
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Usual story, ebay and paypal working for the buyer and not reading or considering your comment on goods sold and returned, then not only do they take funds from your account, you have carraige costs too. The statments made by … Continue reading
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Paypal is not my pal. They froze my account which included pulling back funds that had already started the transfer process. I provided them with all the information they requested. They then closed my account and the only reason they … Continue reading
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I have never wanted to create a PayPal account, but many on-line sellers are requiring it now (won’t even accept a “guest” PayPal payment) and friends assured me how safe it is. Well, the PayPal link from eBay puts you … Continue reading
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Twice now Paypal has refused to release funds from sold transactions, even after the items had been shipped and received, on two separate occasions – stating the buyer has to have time to review the items first. In one case … Continue reading
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Paypal is closing my account with no reason and ebay have suspended my ebay store with no reason. I have 100% feedback with over 1300 people leaving feedback. Only ever had two disputes open over the last few year and … Continue reading
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We are a sound company in North Carolina doing business with a Mexican company. The club sent us $20,000 and Paypal is holding half of it, with no explanation. We know the funds are legitimate. The strange part is that … Continue reading
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Hello, I am owner of Dewlance Hosting, I am using PayPal from 2 Years and 6+ month.. In this 2 year I was really happy with PayPal because of I was enjoying my life by Earning a $1k per month.. … Continue reading
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sending limit!!!! whatever! you never ever mention a sending limit when i was using paypal for years!!! now all of a sudden you want me to open up a credit card account! BS! Submitted By:: heather Location-: georgia
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Shocked me! i have open paypal account,in order to “safty” shopping online althought i never like ebay.i asked my dad send me money from oversea for couple of thousands dollars. i got account frezzed next day,and hold up my money … Continue reading
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Paypal is a horrible place to deal with, i call a customer service rep after shipping an item that is shown delivered (when majority of people dont leave feedback when buying stuff unless its negative) and have them tell me … Continue reading
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PayPal had suspended me for life. eBay has done the same juts days before PayPal. I have money frozen for 180 days. I have been on eBay for over 5 years with 100% feedback. This all started when I sold … Continue reading
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I had 1 account closed because they ran my credit and had almost 2K frozen for 8 months. Opened another account in my sister’s name, all went well until someone hacked my account and $330 in fees showed up in … Continue reading
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My Paypal account was suddenly limited and later to be known closed. I was told to email aup@paypal.com which I did. I was then later told by CS that I violated User Agreement- Sent/Recieved payment for sexually orientated material/services. This … Continue reading
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I registered with eBay and Paypal in years before either service was available in Canada. I went along just fine – building 5,600 feedback – running 100% in the term and with star ratings of 5.00, 5.00, 4.99 & 4.98. … Continue reading
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Hi! I started to get call’s from indian paypal collectors saying my paypal account was in the negative 1,500$ I don’t have a paypal account!! I tried to call and see what the hell was going on and because I … Continue reading
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I had an Ebay account and was selling video games through it. Someone got a game that didn’t work properly and instead of contacting me so I could resolve the issue they contacted Ebay and Paypal saying that I was … Continue reading
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I sent a few items I bought on ebay to a friends house because I stayed with her for two months during the summer. She had her own paypal account and ended up in the negatives. Three YEARS later paypal … Continue reading
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Basically I recieved an email from paypal saying they are taking steps to close my account due to bad customer experiences and excessive high risk involved. Now most of the time the complaints are to do with the buyer not … Continue reading
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Paypal just closed my account and froze my fund for $3700. I never received dispute or chargeback case or any other type of complain, just because my monthly sales went up to $10,000, they requested information about me and my … Continue reading
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In November 2010 I paid for an eBay item (that family member had won using their eBay account). PayPal accused us of fraud; after all steps in resolution centre were completed on both sides limitation wasn’t lifted and new accounts … Continue reading
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I was a casual seller on Ebay and had good outstanding paypal account and without negative balance. Paypal limited my account and asked for all the documents, I sent all they wanted and they still refused to restore my account. … Continue reading
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We are a successful online store Martial Arts Store. We were selling items happily in the UK to UK customers. Problems with one of our suppliers resulted in a few delays. I passed information on to buyers about this and … Continue reading
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I recently received a notification that my account (used perhaps 10-20 times per year for Ebay purchases), was “limited” due to some vague explanation about an “audit” finding “similar account information”. I called Payal, and the first representative said she … Continue reading
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Rarely use Paypal- maybe buy 3-4 things a year. A few weeks ago someone deposited $34 into my account (obviously by accident) and Paypal limited my account while investigating. I advised PayPal that I am not a seller and do … Continue reading
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PayPal has closed two of my accounts through them because I am not 18 years old. However, I will be 18 years old in less than one month (June 9th). PayPal’s usual customer service department has not been so bad … Continue reading
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Paypal Closed My account without reason. My account was limited last month, no reason given, and PayPal ask me to provide them with some documents to resolve limited account. I sent them all of the documentation they asked me to … Continue reading
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From the Editor:: I debated with myself for quite a while as to whether I was going to publish this submission or delete it. My spam filter placed it in the spam queue, most likely because it originally had links to external … Continue reading
