Comments on: PayPal shuts us down

By: utsav

utsav — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:15:39 +0000

Hey i think the paypal problem is solved now…..i heard a pretty interesting story that you told some of my friends at Defcon….about paypal releasing your account within few hours of this post :)

By: bumese

bumese — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:43:07 +0000

Paypal very sucks for always. So weird processing sometimes. I have faced many times. We shouldn’t use it anymore. Its security terribly affects our usability, and accessibility

By: OrderZero

OrderZero — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:17:50 +0000

Just know if you decide to sue you will have alot of supporters this has happened to countless people.

By: xyberpix

xyberpix — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:13:41 +0000

Sent this out to the SANS Advisory Board as well, and I will speak to the relevant people at work tomorrow to see what we can do to help out.
The company that I work for heavily supports charities in a rather large way, so let me see what I can do. Please can you contact me though to let me know how to get best get hold your details, as if I can persuade work to help out then I’ll need to get hold of you.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:06:14 +0000

I have heard of many internet marketers who used PayPal being screwed over that way for no good reason. Maybe a search on that will bring you to someone who finally got resolution. Sorry I can’t remember specifically who got screwed how, but with your serach skills I am sure you could trun up someone. I do know most suffered with the same drawn out “customer service” you are experiencing. If I run across anything in my files I will post. I’m in hectic mode and I just ran across this post today.

By: SamIam

SamIam — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:40:34 +0000

I will contact everyone I know that maybe can help. That may be just raising the awareness level or funding. Let me know how I can do to get some cash to you.

I will be praying for you.

By: Jonathan Schram

Jonathan Schram — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:38:11 +0000

I agree, paypal is an evil website, like their partner Ebay. I had problem with ebay very similar to what you have encountered with paypal. Eventually I told them to F*** off and freeze my account. After reading your posting here I’ll probably go close my paypal account too. Best of luck in your endeavors.

By: dingobully

dingobully — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:54:59 +0000

Paypal did this to Ron Paul in the midst of a national election and didn’t care about it. They need to be regulated and watched MUCH more closely.

By: Tyson Cecka

Tyson Cecka — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:18:49 +0000

I’ve made that same mistake as well for trying to switch over my personal to a nonprofit and it took a week or two to fix.

What I would recommend is starting the process by emailing compliance@paypal.com then call them and ask for a manager who can start a review on your account to restore access.

I think that’s the process I went through, but it is rather annoying, especially since you can actually switch your business info after the fact but you stay locked out.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:21:34 +0000

I had a similar problem with PayPal. I selected non-profit because this is how I would classify what we do. However, we did not have 501c3 either so they froze the account.

I just told them that since we are not actually a non profit we ARE supposed to pay taxes for whatever goes on in that account and they should switch us to the correct setting.

Just tell them that you are not a non-profit yet and they should treat you like any other business.

That was enough to resolve the issue for us. We had under a grand in the account though.