Paypal gave me an audit for buying a domain with the name bitcoin in it - page 2.

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Quote from: iluvpie60 on August 21, 2014, 02:16:34 PM

they did the same thing to me, 8 months back i sold from Feathercoins and Peercoins on ebay(made a killing sold em for triple what i was buying em for).

anyways, they did an audit on me and said "you cannot sell these things blah". then they said they would need me accoutn informationa nd i was suspended until i reconcile with them. i sent them a message back saying go to hell and i am never sending you anything ever again, and i quit that paypal account completely and have not used it ever again. screw it im never giong back.

Everybody in the same situation should do this, if paypal don't react they lose users, if they do users get treated better. Win-win Grin

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they did the same thing to me, 8 months back i sold from Feathercoins and Peercoins on ebay(made a killing sold em for triple what i was buying em for).

anyways, they did an audit on me and said "you cannot sell these things blah". then they said they would need me accoutn informationa nd i was suspended until i reconcile with them. i sent them a message back saying go to hell and i am never sending you anything ever again, and i quit that paypal account completely and have not used it ever again. screw it im never giong back.

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Quote from: itsAj on August 21, 2014, 11:45:51 AM

Quote from: ljudotina on August 21, 2014, 08:03:19 AM

Hm...i bought several domains via PayPal, sold and bought BTC via paypal over period of 6 months etc....never got locked or andything....few buyers fucked me up but i compensated that in advanced with higher margins. Are you sure it's only domain?

I would kind of doubt that the OP is telling the truth. There is no valid business reason for paypal to do this. They may have suspended his account because he was selling digital goods, but this would have nothing to do with bitcoin.

You are welcomed to doubt, - This does not change the reality of what PayPal did to me and continues to do to thousands of customers on a daily basis, do some research before you jump to conclusions. In case you did not see the post correctly - I said I PURCHASED a domain... had nothing to do with sales of any sort - Also the only time they backed up was when I made mention of bitcoin and directly confronted them with a legal threat due to the remiss way in which they handled my account.

Draw your own conclusion but I won't give an inch on you saying I did not state the truth.. Paypal does what paypal wants (Eric Cartmans voice from South Park)

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Quote from: ljudotina on August 21, 2014, 08:03:19 AM

Hm...i bought several domains via PayPal, sold and bought BTC via paypal over period of 6 months etc....never got locked or andything....few buyers fucked me up but i compensated that in advanced with higher margins. Are you sure it's only domain?

I would kind of doubt that the OP is telling the truth. There is no valid business reason for paypal to do this. They may have suspended his account because he was selling digital goods, but this would have nothing to do with bitcoin.

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Quote from: ljudotina on August 21, 2014, 08:03:19 AM

Hm...i bought several domains via PayPal, sold and bought BTC via paypal over period of 6 months etc....never got locked or andything....few buyers fucked me up but i compensated that in advanced with higher margins. Are you sure it's only domain?

That is very risky of you Huh

Yeah - as someone said above this post - we extrapolated that it was some kind of derpy algo to spot the word BTC in any purchase and red flag / freeze it.. The tech support really sounded confused.. "Well sir it seems like your account has no fraud... and there is no reason it should be audited for a 130$ transaction.. not sure why this is happening please try again in a few hours"

Smells like fear to me... Grin

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Hm...i bought several domains via PayPal, sold and bought BTC via paypal over period of 6 months etc....never got locked or andything....few buyers fucked me up but i compensated that in advanced with higher margins. Are you sure it's only domain?

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because of the freezing account ... too.

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paypal hate bitcoin. Because too much paypal user move to bitcoin Grin

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The inevitable pushback from dinosaurs who obviously aren't too happy to be replaced by the birds....

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Are you sure it was to do with that? It seems a little over the top but maybe in their search tool literally anything with the word bitcoin gets red flagged?

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Paypal's actions makes me feel sick.

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How frustrated it makes us when we face such situation. The way their customers service is dealing with such issues is so annoying.

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Literally full audit - suspended my account, when I called every day for 7 days... every single time I would get this response "Try again in a few hours sir our system is just doing a scan of your account to make sure it is you using it."

"BUT THIS IS ME SPEAKING WITH YOU... FOR 7 DAYS NOW... WTF ARE YOU TELLING ME" lol

I had to escalate it to the moon before they re-activated my account... Only after I said this..

"If you suspended my account because you saw Bitcoin in a URL I purchased I am going to sue you for gross negligence"

"Hold on one moment sir let me see what we can do for you.." lol

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