fucking Paypal!
 

I woke up today to a closed account, I had my account with them for ages.. like 5 years and now they close it with this lame email

We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your account
activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal's
Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales of adult website design
http://www.sexxxydesign.com. Therefore, your account has been permanently
limited.

If you have a remaining balance, you may withdraw the funds to your bank
account. Information on how to withdraw funds from your PayPal Account can
be found at our Help Center.

anybody had experience with this? what can be done? assssssholessss I Hate them badly now

they dont tolerate any type of adult biz at all...

withdraw your money and use epassporte. you could also try to open a business acct and associate with a mainstream website but that may not work as they know your name etc.

I have used PayPal for some adult jobs ... but like ... only a handful. Maybe 3 or 4. I refuse to take PayPal unless absolutely necessary. It's not worth the risk. I use my PayPal for mainstream clients and no one can complain about that.

If adult webmasters don't have ePassporte these days, it's a shock to me. Using PayPal is ludicrous considering they're idiot rules.

I got 3 accounts closed last week. Same bullshit. They are sending out "spies" to hunt down accounts in violation. No lie.

I think I even know the name of one who frequents this board.

I have no clue how the found out.. I check all the payments received.. none ever said or had any reference to my website, how the hell did they found out is a mistery, could i dispute that and say i never done adult work?

Five years and you had not heard that they don't allow adult?

Just be glad they are letting you take your money out. I would not be as upset as you are unless they were keeping it.

I raised so much hell that I actually got a PHONE CALL from their legal department. The broad politely informed me that I could go get fucked.

Sounds like you need Mr Teller =]

In a nutshell, she told me that the fact that I worked in Adult was enough of a reason to shut the accounts down.

Lol I have a link to camspot on a psuedo mainstream site associated with that PP email addy. I guess they didnt like that.

naa.. i had 50 fucking dollars in there only, they made tons of money with me.. their loss.. my issue is that i had it linked to my bank account and i was able to pay my american amex from overseas.. and now.. I have no clue how i will do that :P

You have to do EVERYTHING under a mainstream business name, and make sure clients dont send you a payment with the title "payment for hot teen blowjobs fucking porno adult site design"

At least they let you withdraw the money. Often they just permanately freeze it and return the money to wherever it came from.

You honestly have no clue how they found out?????

Perhaps it was the paypal logo at the bottom left of this page???

http://sexxxydesign.com/web.php

Or maybe it was the fact that the paypal logo at the bottom of that page is called paypal.gif?

Nothing can be done. And you are lucky that they are allowing you to take the money right away.

When they first started to close accounts for adult, they would hold the money for 6 months.

JMM yes.. they can tell that sexxxydesign.com uses paypal.. but nowhere there does it have any link to the actual account I use.. and its not [email protected] its a totally unrelated email i had used for ages..

Maybe they did a whois lookup and cross matched it with your name or address.

In any case, the fact is, they have their rules, have had them for years, you broke them and got caught. So how is that "fuck paypal"?

BTW, very nice design work...you may be hearing from me.

LOL Jmm hehe I never knew there where going so deep to find out.. well.. time to find other options..epassporte.. and maybe other.. who knows.. the good thing is i can take my 50 bucks out heheh

dont blame them!! you were the one who broke the rules....

hey.. I can vent my anger here !!!! I'm not blaming them.. I'm just insulting them for having such stupid rules..

Sounds like the person I talked to.

Stupid or not, you failed to abide by them. Their ball, their game.

man... you need to tthank them that u can get your funds...

Stupid or not, you failed to abide by them. Their ball, their game.

Funny how rapidshare.de can have an account

This is really fucked up..

Probably one of your clients that used an adult email address, or one of your competitors that tipped them off.

man... you need to tthank them that u can get your funds...

no big deal, atleast they are letting you withdraw your money

Feeeeeeeeeeeeeedia

yeah right.

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