QUOTE(spaceop @ May 1 2007, 01:47 AM)
Should make everything in a easier understanding steps by steps for verifying paypal.
Cautions steps of using paypal. Transfering funds, accepting funds from varies sources...
When face limited access, what proper steps to do with the fastest responce from paypal account department. The money need to spend when facing the problem to resolved limited access.
Ebay users,merchants. and whoever that use paypal share their experience..
I'll be back the day after but I don't think I can
ensure the thread will be pinned either, but at the very least it would be a good resource for others to see.
@SpaceOP
There's really not much you can do regarding Limited access except wait for paypal to finish its 'investigations'. You may be interested to know that paypal recent lost a few lawsuits to people with Limited Access accounts and had to pay a substantial amount.
By the way, before everyone jumps on the paypal wagon, please keep these facts in mind.
1. According to PayPal accepting their ToS (Terms of Service) in effect means you waive your rights to credit card consumer protection laws if you want to use their service, and that you may not issue a chargeback for unauthorized use of your credit card and PayPal account, or if you do, then they have the right to limit your account.
2. Their terms of service are not completely disclosed upon signup and some key "conditions" are not disclosed. They fail to mention their total lack of security to prevent your account from being compromised by phishing & spoof sites. That if your account is accessed by a criminal using one of these methods, PayPal will hold YOU monetarily & legally responsible! Also, no place do they openly tell potential members that their money is 100% at risk. That PayPal can, will, and has in the past, completely cleaned out customers' accounts, (including your checking or savings account) with no appeals process available. Instead they bury in the fine print of 37 pages of their "Terms of Service" (ToS) where they disclose to you that PayPal can close your account for any reason what-so-ever, or no reason, and then you have to wait 180 days to get your money.
4. If PayPal feels your actions are questionable, PayPal is the investigator, judge, jury and executioner. "Telling your side" of what happened, in most cases seems to be irrelevant. They also refuse to provide you with the details of their investigation and withhold documents they relied upon to make their decisions. Your only contact will be an email that says:
Thank you for contacting PayPal. We apologize for the delay in responding to your service request.
After review, the decision has been made to keep your account locked. This decision cannot be appealed.
If you have any further questions, please reply to this email.
That will be the end of it as far as PayPal is concerned. You can email back, but you'll just get more of the same. Oh yea, and you'll have to wait 180 days to get your money.
5. If you are a bona fide, up-standing individual with hundreds of successful transactions, but someone pays you with a stolen credit card, your account (by PayPal's own admission) is immediately flagged as being "criminal behavior" and any money in that account is confiscated. If a customer "disputes" the charge, same thing happens. (See email above.) PayPal claims that they will fight chargebacks, but read this before you fall for that one.
Added on May 1, 2007, 12:34 pmReally offtopic here but Melz has been around LYN a year longer than me
This post has been edited by Diligent Sloth: May 1 2007, 12:34 PM