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For future reference, seems that a merchant account with Visa or Mastercard is fine even for hate groups like the KKK. http://www.christianconcepts.net/informat.htm
If those douchebags can charge cards, Im sure you can figure something out.
I love a good PayPal bashing as much as the next guy (I've had my own poor experience with them), but there is a significant amount of detail missing here. It's unclear to me that you've actually contacted them - by phone, not via email or their online support gadgetry. Have you? If so, what (specifically) was their response?
I asked to speak to a manager. They said a manager would get back to me, but no response yet and I'm guessing they won't ever call me back.
If you chose to use Paypal for business reasons, then you should own up to having possibly made a bad business decision. There are alternatives: Amazon Payments, Google Checkout, WePay, and 3rd party payment processors.
Have you tried contacting any news organizations? I can imagine a few in and around San Francisco would probably be interested in this, as it has a direct impact on Gay Rights. This seems like complete discrimination. They shouldn't be able to freeze your account for having any references to "gay X" any more than they should be able to freeze your account if you were advertising "african american X".
Is it related to orientation or do just the words "phone sex" trigger something? I have no idea how PayPal works internally.
Have you tried contacting any news organizations? I can imagine a few in and around San Francisco would probably be interested in this, as it has a direct impact on Gay Rights. This seems like complete discrimination. They shouldn't be able to freeze your account for having any references to "gay X" any more than they should be able to freeze your account if you were advertising "african american X".
Let me know if you feel otherwise, but it could be reasonable for paypal to want to distance itself from "african american phone sex."
I don't think they realize just how noxious this is to small companies. Pay pal is convenient but they are Earning a recommendation for unreliability large this kind od thing is enough to put a start up in serious danger. I hope star ups are not forced to play it squeaky clean and forced to discriminate in order to avoid loss of liquidity.
It sounds like it takes no more than a bad word or rumor of some outspoken group to get cut off. By bad word I mean gay black muslim independent.
I feel sorry for our non white non catholic friends. There seems to be a growing movement in the US to fragment our nation and KUt the others off from income and protection of law.
Say what you want about PayPal but they don't discriminate. They screw everyone regardless of race, religion, sex or sexuality. To the OP: Like so many people, I lost money when PrayPal[0] locked me out of my account. No amount of faxing documents, emails or phone calls would convince them that it was my account and my money. I ended up just walking away. A suggestion might be to go talk to a gay rights group and try…
Ugh, why does paypal care about sexual orientation? For future reference, seems that a merchant account with Visa or Mastercard is fine even for hate groups like the KKK. http://www.christianconcepts.net/informat.htm If those douchebags can charge cards, Im sure you can figure something out.
What's the URL of the site? My side project is also a gay discussion site (gaygeeks.org) so I'm surprised I don't know who you are :-)