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PayPal charged my bank card $400 12 times= $4800

Was told I needed to get a PayPal account to buy on ebay. Did that about three weeks ago. Today my bank calls me to tell me paypal was charging my bank card $400 12 times= $4800. They stopped my … Continue reading

Paypal reversed payment from a good buyer

A very good eBay buyer from Mongolia sent a $154.50 payment for a Turkish coin made in Turkey and in his payment through PayPal he mentioned that he liked a coin from Shiraz of the Ilkhanid dynasty that he bought … Continue reading

Spending limit cause account limitations

I registered with paypal/ebay and conducted many online transactions starting with an agreed spending/receiving limit of £1.600. As I approached the receiving limit I was invited to have these receiving limits lifted and was then notified my limits had been … Continue reading

I would advise anyone to avoid PayPal

Paypal suspended my account 6 months ago. They wanted all my personal info to prove I’m not helping terrorists overseas. Actually my information is easily obtained as I am a self employed health worker and worked in my profession for … Continue reading

My violation was my business doing well

PayPal limited my account access and I provided them with all of the information they had requested. They said that I was making too much money too fast (even though I could confirm the sources of my inventory and I … Continue reading

Can’t close my account because it is limited

I’d been a happy occasional user of PayPal for several years, done all the verification things with the bank account etc and even become an approved business user. I had good ratings on eBay and all was good in the … Continue reading

As a seller I am done with paypal, as a buyer you apparently get stuff for free

Sold a r/c car engine(nitro) to a guy, before he even bought it he emailed and asked what all was wrong with engine? Like in the ad I explained to him the problem and for $40 he bought it. I … Continue reading

I was punished for alerting Paypal to a suspicious Payment I received

After alerting PayPal to a suspicious payment and following their instructions they have overdrafted both that account and business checking over $750 On April 20 someone contacted me on Skype to say he had paid for Online English Lessons from … Continue reading

Truly disgusting customer service department over at Paypal

As a web developer I have set up a booking system that allows hotels to accept there own booking rather than pay a commission to a booking agency. I used paypal to receive payments and stupidly without realizing attached paypal … Continue reading

I am so over Paypal and their dysfunction

I logged into my PP account and I got the following message: May 2, 2013: It’s been a little while since you used your account. So, we just want to make sure that you authorized some recent transactions. Great. I … Continue reading