 Re: I Hope You All Can Help Me
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Originally Posted by drakehound  You bring up excellent questions.
How do you get banned on PayPal simply buying items on eBay? I would love to know the answer to this myself. All they will tell me after dozens of phone calls and emails is that I have "violated their Acceptable Use Policy." They refuse to provide any further details. Personally, I don't believe that it has anything to do with their Acceptable Use Policy. I took the time to read it carefully in detail, and I am certain that I haven't violated it.
I believe that their computer system must have raised a flag on me for some unknown reason, probably involving usage patterns, IP address, or whatnot. No one there seems able to have an adult conversation with me and sort this out. I get nothing but scripted responses.
What am I buying? ...just about anything; the last thing I bought before they banned me was a $7 mobile phone part.
Why do I need to keep buying items on eBay? It's going to break me buying them anyplace else; that mobile phone part that I bought on eBay is around $50 locally. | Just seems incredibly strange you'd get banned for simple using it to buy items, I've been running 8 stealth accounts for the last 4 years with no issue, i only use them to receive money and withdraw and never have I ever heard of someone being banned for just simple buying products on ebay.
Getting payments and selling on eBay is a different story, there's hundreds of people that get banned and dont get their money back after 180 days, some people have had hundreds of thousands of dollars just stolen by paypal after the 180 days....... But banned for buying items on ebay? That's a new one!
I use my business paypal for only buying clothes on different retailers (which is my legit LLC). I never get payments on that account, but I do use it to pretty much buy anything online, lately mainly clothes lol. Its concerning that this can happen to me as well. Also the fact that you've been using paypal for 20 years! They don't seem to care about their long term customers! mind boggling to say the least. If I were you I would email the president of paypal, im sure you can find his email online and explain your situation as clearly you're not at fault, and also submit a complaint on the BBB website, I hear that's helped others in the past. Only guess is that you bought something that is prohibited, but if you buy used items like a cell phone part then it just doesn't make any sense. Best of luck
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