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Originally Posted by Messy52312 (Post 1056901)

I invite everyone who was AUP fined by PayPal to join my discord server. If you dont have a discord account please create one. We can all talk in here and work together.

Please do join as if we work together we can even form a joint lawsuit. I have a lawyer already helping me so the more people who join in. Then the better it is for all of us

Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/QaBrjsX

Originally Posted by notopp (Post 1056921)

I also had a large amount taken by PayPal last week after 178 days of patiently waiting. We have a subpoena being written up now demanding information on what is going on. Wondering has anyone took action yet with a response or result?

Originally Posted by notopp (Post 1056921)

I also had a large amount taken by PayPal last week after 178 days of patiently waiting. We have a subpoena being written up now demanding information on what is going on. Wondering has anyone took action yet with a response or result?

Originally Posted by MKT (Post 1056659)

You are wrong, you can tell your bank about online gateways and they will give you access to it to receive payments internationally. We use PayPal because it's the only "popular" payment gateway that people trust and use and this will be as long as there is no strong and efficient alternative. E.g: Skrill is way worse than PayPal.

Originally Posted by Augus (Post 1057014)

In which way are you saying that Skrill is worse than PayPal? I was considering start using it. What is your personal experience with it or why do you say it is worse? (Have you got funds stolen, account limited/banned or something like that?

Originally Posted by Wesker (Post 1057018)

It's not. Skrill is far better than PayPal.

Originally Posted by Augus (Post 1057014)

In which way are you saying that Skrill is worse than PayPal? I was considering start using it. What is your personal experience with it or why do you say it is worse? (Have you got funds stolen, account limited/banned or something like that?

Originally Posted by Augus (Post 1057025)

That was my thinking as well, but his post left me wondering. Maybe he had some specific account issue himself?

I've requested my first Skrill withdrawal today, so I'll see how it goes. My account is in USD but it sucks the conversion fee from EUR before transfering to my USD bank accout.

Also, I was having issues withdrawing from PayPal as well this morning. Usually when I get the "Contact customer service" message when trying to withdraw, all I do is call them and then they send me an SMS with a code that I need to validate with them. This happened today but I still wasn't able to withdraw after validating with this code so for the first time a Customer Service representative asked me to wait "4 hours" and then try again. He told me that that was the amount of time their "system" was telling them that I needed to wait. Hopefully I can after these 4 hours.

After reading all of your stories in this thread I've been extremely scared and skeptical so I've been withdrawing almost every other day.

Originally Posted by agent006140 (Post 1057019)

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Prohibited Activities
You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:

violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation.
relate to transactions involving (a) narcotics
, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) cigarettes, (d) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (e) stolen goods including digital and virtual goods, (f)the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of discriminatory intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime, (g) items that are considered obscene, (h) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (i) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (j) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (k) certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law.
relate to transactions that (a) show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law, (b) support pyramid or ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs, (c) are associated with purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card, (d) are for the sale of certain items before the seller has control or possession of the item, (e) are by payment processors to collect payments on behalf of merchants, (f) are associated with the sale of traveller's cheques or money orders, (h) involve currency exchanges or cheque cashing businesses, (i) involve certain credit repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions or insurance activities, or (j) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
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Airlines and scheduled or non-scheduled charters/jets/air taxi operators; collecting donations as a charity or non-profit organisation; dealing in jewels, precious metals and stones; acting as a money transmitter or selling stored value cards; selling stocks, bonds, securities, options, futures (forex) or an investment interest in any entity or property; or providing escrow services.

Please send contact information, business website URL and a brief business summary to compliance@paypal.com

Providing file sharing services or access to newsgroups; or selling alcoholic beverages, non-cigarette tobacco products, e-cigarettes or prescription drugs/devices.

Please send contact information, business website URL and brief business summary to aup@paypal.com

Activities involving gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, fantasy sports, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not legally defined as gambling) and sweepstakes, if the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.

Please send contact information, business website URL and brief business summary to aup@paypal.com


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Originally Posted by tinsoldier (Post 1057077)

Given the overwhelming majority are ebay buyers, many who don't sell in any capacity, I'd say the number is less than 0.1%.

Originally Posted by Wesker (Post 1057076)

The AUP is very broad. Half of people who use paypal have probably breached their AUP at one point. PayPal has 300 million users. Are they going to fine damages against 150 million users and take 100% of what is in their PayPal Account? Imagine if a bank in the US did this. They would not only have to repay everyone but pay damages.

Originally Posted by Ashley1010 (Post 1057122)

and also can’t figure out why they have it as an “open case.” Does anyone know why that is yet???

Originally Posted by Wesker (Post 1057132)

Same for all of us. Open case but when you click on it goes no where. Maybe they will add details in the future we can click on it or it's just paypal internal open case which is for them to track, not something for us to view.

Originally Posted by Ashley1010 (Post 1057134)

If the response from the demand letter doesn’t come with resolution I am debating going to the media to investigate this. I’ll be joining anyone who is also fighting and will check for others updates daily.