[quote name='iambeaker']I went through this crap with PayPal. It was caused when one of my buddies paid me under the category of goods sold. PayPal wanted a picture of the goods that were sold, tracking information, and an affidavit from my buddy.
When I told PayPal this was for hockey league dues, they suspended my account. I spent a 4 hours on the phone with them (literally, talking to 14 different people, on ONE CALL... my boss was not happy that day). Finally, they cleared it up by putting me on a 3 year probation, making me mail them a copy of my driver's license, a copy of a current utility bill, and a signed, notarized statement from my buddy with his information.
They also sent a postcard to me in which I had to log on a website and type a code from the postcard..[/QUOTE]
This is why I don't use Paypal. The worst company ever created.
My horror story with them started a few years back when I used to sell Transformers from my collection on ebay. Small time seller, selling maybe $50 a month. I had a buyer from NYC buy a set of figures off of me, mailed them out, then next thing I know Paypal is contacting me saying the buyer wanted a full refund, and that they figures were trashed on arrival.
Sent paypal all kinds of photo's I took of the toys prior to mailing, yet they froze my account and refunded the guy. I eventually received the figures back, all smashed to bits with wrench marks all over them, like he tried prying them apart and it left tool teeth mark imprints on the plastic. So I spent hours on the phone again with someone that barely spoke english, then got transferred to a supervisor, again who barely spoke english, only to be suddenly told that there was another account, in my name, that was also linked to a different eBay account, and that on that account I owed them over $2000 on unsent merchandise. When I asked for specific details on this she couldn't give me any. Couldn't tell me the email address of the account, the physical address listed for that account, no info on dates, no info on the supposed merchandise, no info of any kind other than I owed them money on this other account, and that if I wanted access to my money, only had like $10 left in my account when it got frozen, I'd have to pay.
After that pretty much told her to go F-herself and have never used either service since. To this day have never gotten another email or anything in the mail from them again.
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