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PayPal shuts down account of Regretsy site owner, who had raised money for holiday gifts for kids. (There's more to it than that, but the best quote is from the Regretsy owner's transcript of her phone conversation with PayPal execs, who told her, "If you wanted to make donations for a sick cat via the Donate button, that would be fine, but you can't use it to generate donations for kids."

(It's slightly more complicated than that, but I certainly didn't know that only nonprofits (of the registered, 501c3 ilk) are allowed to use the "Donate" button. And it's a dumb, dumb move by PayPal, as it's generated a firestorm of negative PR.)

http://consumerist.com/2011/12/paypal-rains-on-regretsys-secret-santa-campaign-over-use-of-wrong-button.html

 
Oh, duh. The title: "PayPal Rains On Regretsy's Secret Santa Campaign Over Use Of Wrong Button."

 
Our non-profit has been trying to get a Pay-pal button on our site for a year. In the latest round

they rejected our letter from the IRS confirming our 501©(3) status because it was more than 60 days old.

Someone in their legal department is working overtime!

 
Ugh. smileys/frown.gif I've disliked them ever since I had to spend an hour on the phone to delete my account.

 
IMHO, the PayPal Corporation is Evil...

They are ruining ebay with their rules, requirements, fees, and required transactions through them. What a racket. Let me re-state that, they HAVE ruined ebay, at least for me. I used to buy a lot of items on ebay and had to stop, because, according to PayPal , I had reached my "credit limit" and would have to surrender my CHECKING ACCOUNT NUMBER to continue using my Visa card to charge purchases. I went round and round with them about this, I don't surrender my bank account number to Macy's when I charge something, how dare they tell me I have to when I use my own charge card (not their card) with them. So after over a decade of shopping on ebay, it all came to a sad little end. There is no way in hell I'm giving a corporation my checking account numbers in order to use a credit card.

 
They seem to have a monopoly. I don;t know of any alternatives that people would trust

to make a donation. Does anybody?

Not that they're particularly trustworthy it's just that people recognize the name.

 
Well just typed a long reply & login timed out. Ebay/pp just charged me $40 in fees

I had this long post saying how I'm selling some stuff and with the changes to charging more fees, and how they tried to force people to offer free shipping by giving lower search rankings if you didn't, ebay finally just starting taking a cut of seller's shipping charges. (I'm going to post then edit so this doesn't go poof again.) So it seems they don't want the mom/pop sellers anymore.

I just sold something for a bit over $400 and according to an online calculator ebay/pp is taking $40. Since I felt I had to offer free shipping I'll take another $10 hit. I felt lucky to sell the item at all (they haven't paid yet though) because I had to pad the item to cover all the fees when I was really just trying to get what I paid for out of the item. Other items are basically selling at a loss because ebay/pp are getting all the profit margin.

Richard, would using your debit card fix that?

 
honey, that's because of the embedded chip they put in your brain.

YOU thought you were just setting up an account, but Ah HA! REALLY, the letter/number selection and sequential order that you typed soft-wired a covert tracking macro in your brain--thereby allowing Pay Pal to know where you're at AT ALL TIMES! Even when you think you're alone and sneaking chocolate!!

Oh wait, you can't eat chocolate. Boy, I'll bet that messes with their code.

(can you tell I'm bored?)

 
I was told that it was PAYPAL when I received a notice about 'reaching my credit limit'

that it was someone other than ebay trying to scam me. Even though I receive that notice many times it never materialized - so I really thought it was someone else trying to scam.

 
Geez! I've gotten that message too, for PayPal,DHL and other. Richard, I didn't make the connection

before because I never got as far as the request for checking account info. I think it was spam and did not likely come from PayPal.

 
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