Physically Sick About It

PayPal Warning

While we do not have the resources to verify each and every complaint we receive, we do believe that all reports posted here are true based on our own experience with Paypal and the growing number of corroborating horror stories we receive every day. The main subject of the majority of these horror stories is the following:

Your Paypal account can be frozen at any time, without advance notice, leaving you without your money for months (if not forever), and there isn't much you can do about it.If you would like to submit your own PayPal horror story, we would be more than happy to post it for everyone to read, providing that it is truthful and void of inappropriate language. Please feel free to submit your story by clicking Here

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How Does PayPal Make Money With My Money?

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, there are approx. 100,000 complaints outstanding at PayPal (Are any of these yours?). In many instances disputes can run on for months leaving people frustrated and out of pocket as they are unable to access their accounts. So what happens to the millions of dollars tied up in frozen accounts and disputes? Well, here is a clip from the San Francisco Chronicle that basically sums it up:

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose refused to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks class-action status on behalf of thousands of PayPal customers nationwide. A common allegation is that the company brushes off or stalls customer grievances for months and meanwhile freezes the customer's account and pockets the interest (So that's how they make their money!). No wonder they freeze so many accounts!

By Katie Pickl

PAYPAL HAS FROZEN MY ACCOUNT! My account was frozen Aug.23rd 2005. A customer paid me $646.10 for my item on July 26th 2005. Yesterday I was informed that he has claimed that his account was charged twice by PAYPAL. If this is true, I have no idea where the second charge went as it did not go into my account! And don’t you think I would have noticed if it did! So now PAYPAL has charged my account $1292.20 & left me with a negative balance of $587.96! I will have to borrow money to ship out all the items that were paid for this week & to pay my bills. I make my living selling on ebay & have 2 young sons to support. I spent close to 2 hours on the phone yesterday & still have not resolved anything. Was told, sorry, try to have a good day & that this could take up to 75 days! I am actually physically sick over this! What a rip~off! Oh yeah, the customer still has my items!