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We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by brakmic »

lawn wrote: post #213
brakmic wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL, "broken". However, unlike you I am not trying to advertize any cryptocurrency here. Only wanted to talk about decentralized solutions. And bcash is exactly an example of a NOT decentralized cryptocurrency. Anyway, I don't want to argue with you. Have fun with your s *coin.

For the people wondering what he's going on about: https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-some-people-call-bit...

Cheap promotion should be banned. You are only misusing this thread for propaganda. Unfair but also useless. People aren't that stupid.

Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by jlg23 »

> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services.

Albeit it would be really, really nice to do so, there is absolutely no incentive for a payment provider to have someone look into a case like this when the salary of that person (for the time spent on the case) exceeds the revenue made with the customer.

Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by chii »

paypal has no business in regulating what software their customers are allowed or not allowed to sell. Even if it's spam creation software. If it's not illegal to sell, it should not be blocked by paypal. If the software is spam and is bad for society, let society introduce a law to ban the software, the same way you can't sell drugs using paypal.

This moral policing by businesses is bad for society - and lets businesses dictate more than they ought to be able to.

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Post by HenryBemis »

stronglikedan wrote: post #206
aerovistae wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find this comment’s format profoundly confusing and have no idea what the intended meaning is. The first sentence is throwing me off so much.

English is likely not their native tongue.

True, and was in a rush, apologies for any confusion

Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by neop1x »

chmod775 wrote: post #4

I've been preaching this since forever. Don't rely on PayPal. They're less professional than a kid selling juice next to the road. There are no grace periods with PayPal to give you time to move to another service. There is never more than a generic reason and stonewalling when they terminate you. And yes, their decision is always final. They'll happily terminate your only source of income on a friday afternoon, free…

Also if you own a physical store, always make sure to accept cash also. Don't rely to card providers which also collect huge amount of data and have their own terms. Centralization and reliance on single entities are not good...

Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by HenryBemis »

razakel wrote: post #153
HenryBemis wrote: post #117

Literally NO ONE wrote the below: Every Friday go online and withdraw all-but-the-necessary £€$$ to your bank account (transfer wire or via card number). I do get some revenue via PayPal, and the very same day (or the next) I 'download' comes it to my bank account (connected to PayPal via card) and IMMEDIATELY is shipped to another account that has all the controls to make money (relatively) unmovable. I perceive Pay…

>Every Friday go online and withdraw all-but-the-necessary £€$$ to your bank account (transfer wire or via card number). I do get some revenue via PayPal, and the very same day (or the next) I 'download' comes it to my bank account (connected to PayPal via card) and IMMEDIATELY is shipped to another account that has all the controls to make money (relatively) unmovable. PayPal does have a feature they don't advertise…

YMMV I am ok doing from my app every other night. It takes 5mins to withdraw to my card/account. I keep a certain balance and everything over that amount comes down to safety.

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Post by chii »

astura wrote: post #214
viraptor wrote: post #50

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> Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it. Your bank. You dispute the charge. Uber can deal with your bank. It doesn't matter it was a debit card. It means you're missing the money immediately, but doesn't stop you from disputing.

I wouldn't even attempt to contact Uber in this situation - a fraudulent charge on a credit or debit card = call card issuer or bank. I don't care what the company is, I call card issuer.

unfortunately, most banks have the policy of first asking you to resolve it (or at least show evidence that you've tried).

I would say, sending uber an email would work, or calling their number (which, they actually do - if you lost a phone in an uber, they have a number which lets you call them to get the contact details of the driver of the car you were in).

Re: We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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Post by duxup »

chmod775 wrote: post #4

I've been preaching this since forever. Don't rely on PayPal. They're less professional than a kid selling juice next to the road. There are no grace periods with PayPal to give you time to move to another service. There is never more than a generic reason and stonewalling when they terminate you. And yes, their decision is always final. They'll happily terminate your only source of income on a friday afternoon, free…

In fiction the concept of a big nightmare where some capricious AI making arbitrary decisions and imposing them on humans with no recourse or option to reason would now seem unnecessary.

Google, paypal, plenty of other companies are lead by humans who are willing to just do that to other humans as a matter of doing business.

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