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thrown off paypal
 

Hi, everyone, i'm new here. It's a long story, but I got kicked off paypal because of a trademark violations. My daughter made some handmade duct tape wallets, she put logos and things, anyway she listed them on my account. She has been selling them for sometime. Yesterday I got a email saying my paypal has been limited and I violated their trademark rules. What really worries me is they said I could be fined for every violations which could be 2,000. I feel sick over this and couldn't sleep all night, can anyone please tell me if they have heard of this.

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Welcome to the forums.

Unlikely to proceed further if sales have stopped but yes, using logos and things are always dangerous.

I doubt things will go further because you have not received REGISTERED letter or so. PP sends out e-mails like this which make things SEEM worse than they really are. It's the nature of the game.

That being said, legal concerns are beyond the scope of this forum - if your fears are not settled with my little opinion blurb, best to go find professional law help.

All the best.

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Most likely nothing will happen, At this point if you have stopped selling these items you should be fine.

Is they, Paypal? Ebay? Can you post the email you got (not including personal information)?

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Here is what they sent me
We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your account
activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal's
.

Therefore, your account has been permanently limited.

Per the User Agreement, when PayPal permanently limits an account due to an
Acceptable Use Policy violation, we may hold your funds up to 180 days. In
addition, you will be liable to PayPal for the amount of PayPal's damages
for each violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

To read more about your liability, the actions we may take and other
relevant information pertaining to the User Agreement, please refer to the
following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?c...locale.x=en_US

You will need to remove all references to PayPal from your website/s and/or
auction/s. This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment option, but
also the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.

The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion,
reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User
Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy.

Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive
payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right
of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of
any jurisdiction. This includes transactions for counterfeit items or
unauthorized replicas or copies of items.

The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?c...locale.x=en_US

To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help
Center page here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help

We thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions,
please contact the PayPal Brand Risk Management Department at
aup@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal, Brand Risk Management
PayPal, an eBay Company

Help Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help
Security Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/security

Please don't reply to this email. It'll just confuse the computer that sent
it and you won't get a response.

Re: thrown off paypal
 

it was paypal

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Yeah that's paypals standard "We don't want your Business anymore" email. Effective the date you got it, in 180 days you will get your funds...assuming none of your previous customers file for a chargeback.

If this was your real Paypal it's a goner along with your eBay account. I would recommend you begin making new account(s).

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Thanks everyone for your replies. I had my own ebay account, I created another one for my daughter so she could have her own, I used the same paypal address on hers. I got a email that the one I made for her to use was suspended, then I got the email that said I was thrown off paypal. My first account Is still in good standing, but I can't use it now because I don't have paypal any more.

Re: thrown off paypal
 

yes any account with the same address etc are effectively linked and will be shut down.

But dont despair, this is where you need to learn stealth, grab the stealth guide and use this forum and you will be back to having multiple separate selling ebay accounts and PayPal accounts and back on your feet in no time.

Just dont put the wallets back on :nono:

Re: thrown off paypal
 

Grab the guide, if you value your time.

Otherwise you are wasting your time doing guesswork.