Good riddance, PayPal

Paypal is just giving every opportunity for someone else to come and get their market share. Hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later.

We use Stripe and I couldn't be happier. Started with Paypal, wanted to shoot myself on a regular basis.

If neither Amazon nor Google's brand recognition hasn't convinced folks (buyers or sellers) to start pushing it instead of PayPal for Internet purchases, I can only hope it's because their solutions are equally terrible - otherwise, I have a hard time seeing how a new player will make headway in this space. And I'd really like a new player. :/

The result of this is Paypal saying I owed them £65, but that once paid they would not return this to the companies and the companies sating that I owed them nominal amounts each.

I repaid the companies in cash through the post (I even converted it to the correct currency) and have squared things with them, and Paypal is still saying I owe them £65.

I have told Paypal that as they paid out £65 and then took it back, they are currently level and are not owed any money and informed them to cancel the outgoing payments as I have paid them myself, but they continue to persist with the idea that I owe them money.

They refuse to let me add another card to my account to pay off this amount (the card I originally used is Spanish and I don't use it anymore, the balance on it is, however +£0.47) and I refuse to lose money having it converted over to Euros.

As a result I have cancelled all existing usage of paypal and now pay from a credit card instead and I refuse to either pay Paypal the money I supposedly owe them or add more funds to my old account to have them take it away (leaving them £65 in the green and me in the minus)

My experience of Paypal customer services is poor service and automated responses, if it was possible to talk to a human this would have been sorted months ago, but as a result of their ineptitude they have lost a customer who was doing daily business with them in the order of £100 - £200 incoming and outgoing.

It's not much income to them, but I will no longer use their service and if enough people follow suit it will make a difference.

And for the record, the freeze they placed on my account over such a nominal amount cost me around £750 in lost sales before I began re-routing to my credit card, but I doubt very much they will offer to refund this.