Whenever I used PayPal before creating this one, it was thru friends and family members..I didn't literally use their accounts myself, but I would ask them to buy or accept payments on my behalf, so it's impossible they would link my account to an older account. I really have never used an account which ended up with a negative balance.
My account is registered in Sweden,yes. They treat users different depending on what country they're from?
The business I was running was DVD sales, to be exact I was selling off my personal movie collection (movie collector since many years back, so I own thousands of titles). Basically what happened was after doing this business successfully for years, without having a single complaint in regards to the items themselves, I started toward the latter part of 2012 to receive a bunch of claims against me saying I was selling illegal copies (which is untrue, as I hate such myself). What would then happen is that PayPal forced me to refund these users. All these claims started around the same time (all users who filed these claims were from the United States). I believe word got around that I was an easy target getting free products from, and they started this scamming tactic against me. I have several reasons to believe so: 1. they all started around the same time, after not having any such complaints for years of selling, 2. not one time did any of these users write me an e-mail complaining before opening a dispute, 3. they never gave me a chance to reply to the dispute message, they would just open the dispute and then immediately escalate it to a claim, and whenever i tried writing them they ignored my e-mails.
Eventually they would place orders, and file claims before even receiving the item! I tried contacting PayPal about this issue asking what to do, but they wanted me to send in copies of invoices etc. from my suppliers, I tried explaining I had none since I am not a company (never owned a business account in my life) but an invidual selling parts of my collection off. Of course PayPal ignored this. Then all of a sudden PayPal limited my account, which I assume was because of the increased amount of these type of claims against me.
I contacted PayPal again about the funds on my account and the passing of the 180 days, and they said they will put in a note in the case and ask the limitation team when and how I can withdraw them, and that it usually takes between 24-72 hours to get a result from them. What are my hopes of getting a positive response from them?
As far as the limitation itself goes, they said I should write a written letter to PayPal Europe, and they will take my input into consideration if I appeal the decision. If they did remove the limitation for some miraculous reason, my funds would automatically become available to me. Does anyone know if the ever do appeal limitation decisions in a situation like mine? I feel so frustrated since all this is so unfair.
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