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Originally posted by chaze
being a host we hear lot's of horror stories about Paypal.
mainly it's only adult affiliated people that get effected but they will with no questions asked lock up your account if in anyway is connected to a adult site.
I've seen it sucka its' real as a banana peel
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We take PayPal for programming services. When our account got frozen, I figured maybe one of our clients' email addies had set off a red flag, or something.
Nope - it was a long-neglected, MAINSTREAM (well, maybe a little off-center, but certainly not "adult") site that accepted PayPal donations, that also happened to have a few banners in rotation advertising a vibrator for sale through a LinkShare sponsor.
If you've ever dealt with LinkShare, you know they're at least as disapproving of "adult" oriented sites as PayPal has become. Anyway, since I had no interest in allowing PayPal to dictate the content of my advertising, I pulled the donation link. (No biggie considering I hadn't made a single dime in donations from the site.) After a week of dealing with their "customer assistance" robots, I found the email address of an E-Bay/PayPal liason and pled my case to him. The next day the account was reinstated. So there are at least a couple of sane people in the mix.
But I sure don't carry a balance there.