Currently having paypal issues so I'm currently not selling anything until it's resolved. :dammit: After my last sale paypal they decided to freeze my account for the only reason being that I had received over € 1800 total to my account over a couple of months(!!).. Apparently they have some policy to do this treat all users this way. They blame some EU law about money laundry. And demand that I send in a photo-copy of my driver license and photo copy of my electricity bill to prove that I'm me :-0 OH::dammit: What's the point of paypal if you're not allowed to receive money? /rant
They do this all the time, they do it because some people have no proof and then they steal the money this way.
That was actually the first thing that came to my mind when I noticed it :-( The weirdest of it all was that they never send out a notification about it.. I discovered it when signing on to my paypal account. wtf!
Same here. My problem is the following: one day I sold something on ebay and somebody payed with a credit card, for me to accept the payment I have to upgrade to Paypal premium/business or something which I did because I had no choice to receive my cash. A couple of months later I got this warning when I log in to PP: due to EU/local law & policy we need your company registration & passport so we can declair your profit to your local tax/govenerment??? :drool: And this for buying second hand goods, and selling them when I find something better.. pfff. I never sent them anything and just ignore the warning for over a year now, not much happend still have the warning but I can still receive and send money.. which when I receive I take it off as fast as I can.
That's interesting though... I'm no fan of PP (use it out of necessity more than anything), but in the pre-PP days, whenever I bought something from overseas I'd get cash in the sellers currency here in the US and express mail that to them. (Not always the best idea for obvious reasons, but I never got burned with it, so I guess I consider myself lucky...) But, if I ever wanted to convert more than $499 cash to another currency, they had to make a copy of my drivers license, and I had to offer a thumb-print. When I asked about it, it was the same kind of thing- people will use currency conversion as a form of money laundering, so anything over a certain amount requires verified ID... I never really thought about it through PayPal. Naturally, sounds like they are being their usual dick-ish selves about it though. You should be able to fax in the information and have the funds released within hours, not days and days... All this 'taking days to process' is just bullshit... In the computer age, it should be instant, even overseas. (I'll grant them time of day differences, so 12 hours TOPS) I'm still amazed at the shit they seem to be able to get away with...
Call them. They're surprisingly lenient over the phone. Well they have been in my past experiences...which there have been many.
fixed for me too after sending in all the documents, now they don't have to steal my money.. they've got my identity
Bought something via paypal tonight and they want me to verify my account AGAIN. I think this is the third time this year I've had to log into my internet banking and search around for their two little charges. Takes the piss.
I do what ASSEMbler does. I sweep my account as soon as I get money. I also have one account for making payments and one for receiving them just to keep things as discrete as possible.
