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How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Nice to see the results of your previous post!

> I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales.

You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

#3

Nice to see the results of your previous post! > I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales. You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

Congrats, Pedro! I met him at MicroConf Europe - very nice guy, so it's good to see this.

> Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

By having lots of people out to rip them off.

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Nice to see the results of your previous post! > I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales. You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

Good question. I guess the only reason I didn't ditch PayPal before was that in the past Gumroad would deposit your money in your PayPal account (i.e. you'd need PayPal anyway). Now that Gumroad deposits directly to your bank account, I'm looking forward to move to a Gumroad-only solution,

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Nice to see the results of your previous post! > I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales. You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

I'm no fan of PayPal, but this customer was aware that a sudden onslaught of sales (where before there was none) might set off some sort of alarm with his payment processor. Seems like a legitimate concern for both the processor and a pro-active measure by the customer.

We all know the horror stories of frozen PayPal accounts but I can't say I can blame PP given the scope of what they have to deal with when transferring money and dealing with regulators/government.

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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post #3

Nice to see the results of your previous post! > I was so afraid that PayPal would freeze my account that I called to let them know that I was going to sell a book and that I might have a few sales. You know something's wrong when your customers are fearing you. Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this?

Congrats, Pedro! I met him at MicroConf Europe - very nice guy, so it's good to see this. > Seriously, how did PayPal end up like this? By having lots of people out to rip them off.

MicroConf Europe was a lot of fun. I learned a lot and I met a lot of nice people, like you.
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