They said:
"180 day hold, but when I spoke with PP on the phone, the rep told me that I can request the money after 90 days."
Ha Ha, very funny!
You lost your cash buddy!!!
Because after 180 days (ie. half a year), you have lost your obligation to appeal. Read Paypals Policy. "No appeals after 6 months...".
They covered their ass - legally.
Now you need an attorney to get anything back.
And the attorney needs your real name.
Here is what will happen:
1) You wait 6 month hoping that Paypal will be honorable (ha ha ha...)
2) After 6 months (they hope you forgot about your money), then you ask for the money back.
-> Now you will get templated robotic responses back, like this:
"go to this link and... wast time..."
"We need more information... send this..."
"Now send this..."
"Now send more of this..."
"We need your product invoices (from 6 month ago, that you can no longer find)..."
"Please phone us ... and wast more time waiting to talk to an uneducated chump from India, that reads scripts..."
"Your ID is unacceptable..., now send these notarized docs..."
"Now send us more of this..."
And the templated response system loops and loops.
They got me on that too! - for at least 4 accounts.
Did all the proxy,
VPN, IP, stuff.
The only way to get a stable eBay/Paypal setup, is to read my main post telling you how.