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Paypal and MoneyPak Card

PayPal’s website says users can INSTANTLY add funds to their PayPal account by purchasing a Green Dot MoneyPak card. Accordingly, we purchased a MoneyPak card. The card is NOT able to transfer funds to a PayPal account. For over 48 … Continue reading

Paypal account limited 3 times in 30 days, now closed.

Within the past 30 days Payapal has limited my account for the 3rd time! The first 2 times it was resolved by providing bank documentations, Copy of my DL and SS card (didn’t want to but they gave me no … Continue reading

PayPal is requesting SSN for credit check

Hello, My experience is not that good as you probably already know because i am writing in here. My account was limited for the 1st time in september this year because i had more than $10,000 in revenue into my … Continue reading

PayPal closed my business over night.

I have a eshop and have been building up over the past 3 years with no problems last week i had a customer who had bought 8 of the same items and after having them for more than 60 days … Continue reading

Paypal makes up false information to freeze funds

I’ve used paypal only once to receive a nominal amount of $200 because sender insisted I must use paypal. I provided all my personal information and got my account verified. The transaction was complete. Yesterday I received another payment of … Continue reading

Paypal said I won appeal but I still don’t get money back

Paypal awarded a recent claim to the buyer I was dealing with, I could not understand why as I had provided them with the lodgement receipt. When I contacted them about it and expressed how angry I was, I was … Continue reading

Limited account spread to friends and family

November 16, 2012 This statement is true and correct to my knowledge. Within I describe my current issues with Paypal and my attempts to resolve such issues. I also list damages caused by Paypal to this point. On November 10, … Continue reading

Account closed hours after first Payment

Hi.Story begins 3 months ago when I opened a seller ebay account and chose Paypal as payment method.As seller of travel arrangement I initially went thru verification by ebay and then also by Paypal.Along with the first item sold on … Continue reading

Bill Me Later placed a hard inquiry on my credit report, stopping house buy

COPY OF LETTER FEDEX’D TO DAVID MARCUS, CEO PAYPAL I have been an eBay user since 2001. I have used Paypal since that time. I opened an account with Bill Me Later in 2011. My credit limit is $4,800. I … Continue reading

I have over 100 instances of bad and horrible consequences of using PayPal

Too many bad experiences so I’ll start with the most recent. I own a hotel in Nicaragua, and don’t have access to a normal credit card machine, so PayPal is only way I know of for world wide customers to … Continue reading