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Paypal Premiere Accounts to be Removed / Terminated
 

Just a small FYI to everyone. This is direct inside info from a Paypal rep.

If you have a Premiere account, remove your funds ASAP.
Expect for it to get limited sooner or later, most likely sooner.
Paypal is making a changeover to Personal / Business accounts only. All Premiere accounts will be removed / terminated, regardless of legitimacy or history.
Paypal is planning to "remove" Premiere accounts, YOU WILL NOT BE DOWNGRADED OR UPGRADED; YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE LIMITED WITHOUT NOTICE.

I just lost $1750 in combined accounts with Premiere status this morning. No links, no limitation notifications.

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I'm willing to bet the Paypal rep you spoke to is an utter dumbass.
If Paypal delete all Premier accounts for no particular reason, that means they will lost over half of their customers.
I'm almost too certain that your accounts were limited for alternative reasons.

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Straight from a rep's mouth.

"Premier accounts are being REMOVED." That is quote unquote from the intel I received a couple days ago. I didn't think removed would mean limited, but I found it very suspicious I did not receive ANY notice on these limitations whatsoever. They are only Premier accounts.

We all know eBay / Paypal does some really dumb stuff, this is just another thing down the line.. They could care less about their customers at this point.

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LOL, Unless this Rep is your Wife/Husband, Sibling, Family Member, Lover.....It sounds like a lot of Hot Air, I would be very careful posting this type of thread in the forum. Unless your 100% sure I would think twice before posting.

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And I'm telling you this rep is mentally challenged.

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Not related to me. Checked only twice (2 seperate reps saying the same thing). Trying to get a third confirmation now, but may take some time.. In my experience asking over the phone as well, they won't deny it.

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Just think about it, that would be a major company collapse, if they just shut down all premier accounts , are u serious about this, I'm not sure of the numbers but I'll bet it's a huge percentage that have premier accounts enough that if paypal eliminated them the stock would just stop trading.

I could see maybe renaming it or something but there is no way that for no reason they are now shutting down half the company and freezing all funds, COME ON REALLY!,

U can get a 3rd 4th and 5 th confirmation and it still will never happen

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ebay is proud to have cut out 14,000 sellers in the month of august,2013 with a large portion being top 1% sellers, so who knows the logic to paypal or ebay, but it does not make any sense that they would shut down any good accounts on the paypal side because of account type, but maybe force to move in line with a business account, etc...

Have a rep say inaccurate things from both paypal or ebay is common place. Having blatant utter lies and/or stupidity is pretty common as well. Unless it came from "Top Customer Care" and you know the persons voice, name and what office they are working out of(meaning you talk to them regularly and are in that realm of business with paypal) i would take anything verbally stated and even in a direct email with a complete grain of salt.

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Anything via word has no hold - is it in WRITING? :FF:

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It could be true. eBay kills accounts by the tens of thousands. There is no method to madness.

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I as dumb as they come and I know better than to believe anything like this. I am not going to even try to explain it's so obvious.

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Expand on that further.


Define what happened.

I have US Premier accounts all nice and active today....

Hope not to have scary stuff without proof.

:boink:

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Alright ladies and gents, I have just tried to create more stealth accounts and realized that when clicking the "upgrade" option on paypal it will only bring up business account...no more premiere option. So to some sense OP is correct. Now as to whether paypal will limit all premiere accounts, I have doubts as that will bring down the company as a whole. That being said my eyes and mind are open... being ignorant will only bring trouble. So if any of you guys have the same experience please let me know.

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I suspect paypal will just push new accounts to be either personal or Business from now on. We might be seeing the end of premiere accounts "creations"....hopefully not the genocide of all past premiere users.

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Premier accounts are confusing to make recently. I just did one 2 days ago and I had to follow the business account after I realized there just was not another option. I followed it until it started to ask those pesky business questions. Can't remember exactly what the question was but I stopped, back out and when I checked the account had been made premier because I could now get immediate payment for BIN payments. It was a whole different story trying to find the logo. I could not find it. All the logos on their new logo page were not premier. I am thinking they are about to change something if they don't want to provide the logo. I did get it from an older account that shows the feature.

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I have experienced that as well from 1-2 days ago when upgrading 3 more paypal accounts. Once you start answering the business questions your account is pretty much a business account. I feel paypal is currently in a transition and will or already have changed their policy as I have gotten emails about "paypal policy updates" a few weeks back.

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Thank you. thank you, thank you, Grimm ^^^^^^ Now I know I'm not that crazy. LOL I kept going back and forth. Always the fear I ignited some type of investigation or aroused suspicion for pp to look at me. I hope account sellers are aware and making adjustments?

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With the 1099k laws in the U.S. it does not surprise me at all you gotta go either Personal or Business. However, I doubt they will just start purging premier accounts. More likely they will be continuing what they have been doing. Limiting US accounts when they get close to 200 payments received or 20k in payments.

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We will see what happens - PP is a bit resistant to change - they score some nice fees from premier accounts

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Joe
What adjustments?

Speaking for myself I only make personal paypal accounts for members.
This gives you the buyer the choice of staying personal or moving onto business accounts.

I never used premier myself on any account sold to anyone.

I like giving buyer choices, leave it as personal or change to business or premier which we all now see is going away.

Not a big deal.

It is slimming down their business so to speak.

Either you are doing this as a hobby or a business period.

Turning an account into a business account is not hard at all.

Now a word of warning, do not turn your new accounts into business accounts right away as you will at random get far more then the normal business questions. Let the account age, get some history etc before turning them into business accounts.

Do not panic folks. From what I see and the info provided above, Paypal is just getting rid of the premier accounts.

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I don't know anything about business accounts. The only reason I do premier is to have instant payment on BIN. It's bad enough with auctions getting buyers to pay. Used to be able to make premier just by clicking on it and then you could use the verified seal.

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:doh: So you wont be able to use instant payment on BIN unless you have a business account? That was the sole reason for going premier!

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It is not confirmed yet...

:peace:

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Made a new stealth, Personal or Business only....went with personal for now.

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Can personal accounts still accept payments from ebay.

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I would say so yes, Not everyone who sells on ebay is a business.
There are random people selling there used stuff from there cupboards/garage.

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Many years ago when I first opened my Paypal account it was with the sole intent of selling some stuff on Ebay. I was given to understand that with a "personal" account I could not accept credit card payments from buyers so i went for a premier account. I later upgraded it to business although it was a click of the mousie in those days.

Is there any reason not to upgrade a premier account to a business one? The only "business" questions I can ever recall being asked as my projected turnover, how many employees I had and my type of business (eg self employed, limited company, etc)

But then Paypal Europe is a different animal.

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Buy it now option requires either a premier or business paypal. No way around it and since premier option has been taken out you're only left with business. Also I saw a post from a previous member on this board a week ago who received the dreaded SSN and birthday requirement after the day she/he upgraded the account to business. That being said I'm not sure if that was a random event or simply the new standard paypal is doing. I'm not trying to scare anyone, just throwing out some info so you guys can be prepared what "could" happen.

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Is this confirmed?

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Has anybody tried to upgrade from personal account to premier recently? It really doesnt show options for premier or business. There is only one option..upgrade to business. I did not finish the process though so I cant confirm it. Somebody said there will be option for premier or business in later steps but I was worried to finish it as there is no way back. Is there anybody who can try it and let us know?

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Maybe Im missing something...
On all my new accounts I dont upgrade the paypal (theyre all still personal accounts) and Im selling BIN items just fine.
Seems like the requirement for premier account for listing BIN auctions has been removed along with the premier accounts option itself.
This is not to be confused with the option of choosing 'Instant payment' when posting a BIN auction however. I think those two concepts are getting mixed up a tad in this thread. Not sure what the situation is on that issue. Guess ill test it next.

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Just a word of warning.


I can see paypal not just handing out business paypal accounts like water anymore.

I can see more requirements etc coming with this new change.

Something to ponder before you go changing your personal to business.

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That is the issue, BIN with instant payment weeds out 100% of the non paying deadbeats.

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Always a good move to let accounts age before changing ANY status or info...

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People selling random stuff from basement/attic/garage etc are not traders because they own the stuff. Nor are individuals who sell odd items from their collection to buy more. In effect they are casual or hobby sellers.

Buying with the intention of reselling makes you a trader.

But when you reach a certain level EB will decide that you need to register as a business seller in order to be able to continue with that account.

Since EB owns PP and the tie up between the companies being what it is, I can see a requirement to upgrade a personal PP account to business one coming in at the same point as a future requirement.