interesting phone convo with paypal

[Welbs]

just got off phone with the enemy aka paypal i cannot believe what some twonk has just told me but it all adds up since ebay/paypal split...

since the split ive had 4 yes 4 pp accss limited, gone, end of, see ya. for selling non risk items on ebay which i have been doing for last 2 yrs - the ebay accs were in great standing and no probs with either pp or ebay....until they split!!!

so basically i called and asked whats going on(the pp accs banned were not linked) limited with the old violation under our user agreement policy blah blah blahhhh

so i said to this buffoon who had real joy in my pain, what gives why is my acclimited he simply sed with a real happy tone '' since the ebay paypal split we dont need ebay like ebay needs us hence we have brought into play new policys regarding items we dont feel comfortable with,,this started me on a rant to him which he wasnt even half listening to lol - he cut me off and abruptly said '' yes you are correct its not just your account that has been limited we've limited 100s since the split that probaly wud'nt have been limited before the split but due to us being seperated from ebay and simply dont want to associate ourselves with the items involved - so i said but these are non risk low price items '' doesnt matter if there high risk or low risk '' we simply have new policys on many items we dont want to do business with???????after that i just put the friggin' phone down

i know theres been quite alot of pp accs limited in last few weeks from the message board threads - any body else had a conversation like this with pp and if they keep doing this to ebayers accs and ebay not suspended these accs then ebay are going to lose alot of money by paypal just limiting accs left right and centre - any thoughts as my heads on fire lol

[muzzie]

What was the type of the item? Clothes, electronics?

[xxrange]

Call him back and get his name and use it to make a stealth account

[Welbs]

haha xxrange lol - the items were cables,phone chargers,phone cases,pin badges, just low stuff i dont sell clothes as thats a dead horse - i really think long term paypal are gunna kill off ebay unless ebay gets its ass in gear and gets an alternative payment method as now i have 4 ebay accs that i cant use due to paypal - i imagine this is happening to 100s of ebayers - utter wank!!!

[Haidukken]

Don't take this personally, but I don't believe any of what I've just read. I know that lately there have been some cases of accounts going down, so I just think you've perhaps put two and two together and come up with a bit of fearmongering thread that has very little proof or substance in general.

The least you could do is put together a decent post with readable sentances and perhaps actually talk about your personal product and numbers, if you really want to warn people or share something "groundbreaking".


All I'm saying is that if you look after your eBay accounts with same care as you take when you form posts, then I'm not surprised you have problems with limitations.

Don't take this personally, just an observation

[muzzie]

If you were selling something that is for Aplye, it is common nowadays to get banned, as Aplye accessories are very likely to be counterfeited, so if they see a huge account that sells accessories for Aplye at a very low price and in huge quantities - they will ban it.
P.S. You should treat your accounts very carefully. A sixth sense is a must.

[Welbs]

doesnt matter about spelling jesus christ haidukken im just telling you what just happened - i take nothing personally its a forum and just telling people what happened?

[easy.bake.oven]

Maybe coz u were selling cheap 3rd party phone items.

If I was running a quality business, I wouldn't want to be associated with people selling cheap tat.

Just my personal views XxX

[Welbs]

powerseller 100 percent fb - good quality items so the customers say

just what the feedback said xXx

[joesshooze]

Other than his unfortunate racism Welbs has something there. I lost 2 stealth PP accounts last week that were almost exactly a year old. There was no viable reason other than what Welbs described. For us to think there would be no negative "fallout" over the split.

[toml3030]

Originally Posted by oven.hot.pizza

Maybe coz u were selling cheap 3rd party phone items.

I'm guessing that this is it.

[Welbs]

Haha dan_ebay lol i wasnt being rcacist regarding the irish at paypal but come on there meant to help and they simply dont and i can tell in the way they talk to you they enjoy it its a power thing no doubt - everybody has an opinion but at some point paypal will limit your account hence thats why everybody has stealth accs...like the irish guy said doesnt matter if u sell high end quality or cheap tat as somebody said they do what they like, when they like , to who they like....and ruin peoples businesses, lives and livelyhoods....fact!!!!

[toml3030]

Originally Posted by Welbs

i can tell in the way they talk to you they enjoy it its a power thing no doubt -!

Paypal is a private company who can choose with whom they do business with. Having a paypal account is not a right...you want to do business with paypal, deal with their rules.

[Welbs]

Like we all dont know this im just sharing my experience and no doubt other sellers have had similar experiences judging by previous news threads thats all

[easy.bake.oven]

Haha, same with paddy power betting - they got power trip and just close you down without a care in the world

I don't even understand what customer services are saying with their funky accent

[Rano]

Why people doesn't use other alternatives to PayPal, for example merchant accounts, Skrill, Propay, all this approved with ebay. I lost 10 PayPal accounts after they split, so I am moving to merchant.

[Welbs]

But u still need a valid paypal to accept any payments on ebay uk without one ur cream crackered

[dan_ebay]

Originally Posted by toml3030

Paypal is a private company who can choose with whom they do business with. Having a paypal account is not a right...you want to do business with paypal, deal with their rules.

that would be fine if they told u what the rules were lol

[Welbs]

they make em' up as they go along...even the trouts that work there dont know whats happening,,,,wen u ring them alls u get is.......errrrrrrrrrrr one moment.......errrrrr one minute please hold on!!!!!!laughable much, but not wen u log in to the dreaded......YOUR ACCOUNT IS LIMITED!!!!!!!