I made $200K and PayPal locked my account

I'm the creator of turn.js (www.turnjs.com), a javascript library for books and magazines. I released a commercial version in July 2012 and six month later I made $200K. I don’t know how, but I made it.

PayPal has closed my account because I don’t have a social security number. It seems like I don’t qualify for one because I’m just “an international student” from Venezuela.

I have been working really hard to release a product for publishers that converts PDFs to HTML5 for books and magazine with the brand-new turn.js 5th release.

I don’t know what to do or where to go. I don't have more money.

Please help.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

blasten@gmail.com

Emmanuel

Don't you have one in Venezuela? They were more than happy to accept my Greek id.

I've been testing turn.js v3 for personal projects and am seriously considering buying it for production use in a business; it's the only thing out there for dynamically-rendered flipbooks. Sorry to hear about your troubles. At that level of revenue, I'd seriously consider charging using something like Stripe or Braintree. Your target audience (developers) won't consider typing a CC number as such a huge inconvenience.

Another note - releasing the 4th release's source code under something like the Affero GPL (or a similar noncommercial license) could drive adoption of that version, since many people like to "try before they buy" - and would like to do so with the most feature-filled version.

If someone was beating themselves with a baseball bat, and complained that it hurt, wouldn't you say "dude, you shouldn't be beating yourself with that baseball bat"?