PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says

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Re: PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says

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Post by rspeer » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 7:01 AM UTC

Nightshaxx wrote: post #89

rspeer wrote: post #70

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Dammit. I've been using Amazon Smile to donate to a small non-profit. It's obscure enough that I was surprised to find it listed as an option, but given that it was there, I just assumed that they would get the money set aside for them. Is Amazon doing the same thing (withholding donations from charities that don't register for their service)? Is there any way to check?

"If you do not register your charitable organization, including providing accurate bank account information for an electronic transfer, the AmazonSmile Foundation will still track and store donations earned in each calendar quarter. Once you’ve registered your charitable organization, your organization will be eligible to receive in the next donation cycle all donation amounts that were previously allocated to your o…

Sounds like exactly the same situation as PayPal, and there's no way for me as a customer to check who's actually getting the donation, right?

Re: PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says

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Post by jliptzin » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:08 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #82

jliptzin wrote: post #71

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Same here, about $2,000 they claim I owe them because they stupidly decided to refund money to an obvious scammer. Luckily I had already withdrawn the money. This happened when I was 15 and since then I am banned for life from Paypal - every time I tried opening up a new account they would eventually ban me. However during the last 15 years I have started multiple successful businesses and used alternatives like Stri…

At 15 you aren't allowed to have an account with PayPal and were technically defrauding them with a false birthday to get in. It isn't much of a stretch for them to ban you for that alone. Even if you were emancipated, it would be nearly impossible to prove that to a web business with no allowances for unusual circumstances.

Maybe they changed the policy since 1999? I don't remember lying about my age at the time, and they had my SSN. Plus my age never came up as a factor during my fight with them about the ban.

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