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Paypal is good for as much as you want it to be - you just need to approach it in a professional manner and think outside the box instead of just getting your hands on the money - stroke them properly and they purr

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I used to stay in Auckland, but now i'm in china for business . I was in hurry because I need the cash to take overstocks from a factory, I miss it finally anyway, and got my account closed,Money frozen ! :doh: Too rough, I admit !Have been thinking of my mistake these days , a good lesson for my life !

Just bought Ebay Stealth, Will study on it !

^^good luck and well done for not reacting to the flames :thumb:

it is easy for people to make mistakes when you do not know about "what not to do" so don`t worry about it;)

live and learn

I've found if I build it up slowly and leave a couple of grand in there my problems go away. I was having problems with pending payments a short while ago but now I draw down in excess of (£+) every day with no problems

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2nd that. I always keep funds with them as a guard against chargebacks and disputes in general. It's a drop in the bucket in the big picture because yeah, they might freeze me at any time but even if it buys me just a little bit of credit with them over the course of months, years, and more.... it's more than worth it.

When my real account got limited I had £3,000 in it. The PayPal guy told me on the phone that it really doesn't matter how much you leave in the account and usually PayPal don't take any notice of it, unless it's linked to possible fraudulent activity. He said that 95% of people withdrew payments instantly, and if they started limiting people for withdrawing too quickly or for having a 0 balance, there'd be no one left!

On the other hand, they do have 21 day payment holds though.

Yeah, I don't mean credit just as in... "well you let us earn interest on your funds for virtually nothing, so we'll just ignore the fact that you're selling grey market goods..." but 'credit' as in you always have funds on hand to end disputes right away with the refund option without getting caught out in a situation where they have to try to return the funds to the customer by doing an ACH from your bank -and worse yet getting a rejected ACH request while doing so- or having to charge it to the card you have on file. I might get a dozen disputes a year, but it never gets to a stage where a human would see that (unless they do random visual audits) because it gets closed the same day (if not within a few minutes or a few hours) because I always have funds ready to do refunds right away. I'd be more than happy to do a refund every single day if it means the other 49 transactions go through without a hitch.

Intuitively speaking though, if it's not just a computer acting on how many flags an account has and there is an actual human element involved, I'd still tend to think that larger balance accounts would be less likely to be shut down (and yeah, I know there are thousands of stories out there of folks getting shut down regardless.... but those stories also tend to opt out of sharing the other mitigating factors that may be involved... like opening a 5th account under the name of Michael Jackson, an SSN of 123-45-6789, or openly selling 100 copies of Scarface on DVD every single day, etc) than fresh unseasoned low balance accounts. It's just the same underlying logic that is at the core of most interest earning institutions. They don't want their whales to go somewhere else.

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i agree with what your saying^^^

add more paragraphs to your posts airsealed!

just makes it easier to read:thumb:

Good news, I got my account restore to normal, 12K released ! Hard time for past 2 weeks !Just want to share with yr guys, it's better to call and communicate with PP, it's helpful!

Glad it worked out.. hope we wont see this thread being updated becausee you did the same thing... every1 makes mistakes even stupid ones like these.. but LEARN and RESEARCH!
THen REseach some more.. then right when you think you know it all like the back of your hand.... research some more then some more and more again

Pleased it worked out for you.

Good news for you conan, even though 12k is a lot to be sitting with pa yp al.