Just Discovered I can BLOCK COUNTRIES from paypal

SoonSlim

12 years ago

Great idea...been zapped a couple of times myself !

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neroweb 12 years ago

Nice Call..

I was looking for the exact same process.. Thanks for lay laying it out for us.

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Bon-Bon

12 years ago

Never realized we can avail this option. Thanks for sharing.

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igrowyourbiz

12 years ago

so far my refund and scam events are now ZERO since i did this

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Deepak Media 12 years ago

Originally Posted by igrowyourbiz

so far my refund and scam events are now ZERO since i did this

What are the top 5 countries you blocked?
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- Rus Sells 12 years ago
  
  That's a loaded question! LOL
  
  Originally Posted by Deepak Media
  
  What are the top 5 countries you blocked?
  
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  Joe118 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Rus Sells
  
  That's a loaded question! LOL
  
  So far only one country -- China. Sorry Chinese buyers, I've had too one many chargebacks, fraudsters from there pushed me over the brink this morning.
  
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- DubDubDubDot 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Deepak Media
  
  What are the top 5 countries you blocked?
  
  Pay special attention to southeast Asia in general, but it really depends on what you are selling.
  
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silyavski

12 years ago

I will block Germany and Italy.
The first ones like buying, not paying in time and later returning with the excuse that the item is not ok.
The second ones tend to loose packages, hold them at customs etc.

Its not a joke. See how many people had blocked Italy for shipping.

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Robert Michael

12 years ago

thats awesome, now if only someone could find a way to disable payment by credit card, i'd be ecstatic!

lol i actually called paypal and asked if there was a way to, since there is when you sell on ebay.

they told me no, i can't choose to not accept credit card payments - only ebay sellers can...?

i mean come on..

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Rus Sells

12 years ago

I didn't know that but....

You can block whole countries from visiting your site in your htaccess file as well. So not only do you prevent people from those countries from buying from you, you prevent them from using up your server resources and bandwidth.

If you don't when them buying from you, you might as well just keep them off your site/s completely. yes?

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steve995 12 years ago

I've blocked certain parts of the world using PP before now, but I like the idea of blocking access using the .htaccess even more! One of those things that's obvious when someone else mentions it, but I'd never thought of it!
So, big thanks to you guys for BOTH suggestions...
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Lloyd Buchinski

12 years ago

Originally Posted by igrowyourbiz

You can set paypal to deny certain countries from making payment.

I'm curious about what type of notice they get when they are blocked. Could anyone supply a screen shot, or the wording?

Originally Posted by Whos That Guru

thats awesome, now if only someone could find a way to disable payment by credit card, i'd be ecstatic!

Just wondering, but why would you want to block payment by credit card?

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

You can block whole countries from visiting your site in your htaccess file as well. So not only do you prevent people from those countries from buying from you, you prevent them from using up your server resources and bandwidth.

If you don't when them buying from you, you might as well just keep them off your site/s completely. yes?

I checked into that .htaccess block a few years ago. You had to list every ip from the country in the htaccess file. If you are going to block more than one country, it adds up to an enormous file. Especially if it is a country like China, India, or the US. (Just examples.)

Overall it still saves on bandwidth, but each time someone comes from any country, the server has to go through all the ips listed to allow or deny. It will add to the server load.

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Rus Sells

12 years ago

You would use country IP blocks I believe this reduces the server load. I use to use it on a blog network because Badau, I think that's how you spell it; the Chinese search engine was killing my servers.

Originally Posted by Lloyd Buchinski

I'm curious about what type of notice they get when they are blocked. Could anyone supply a screen shot, or the wording?

Just wondering, but why would you want to block payment by credit card?

I checked into that .htaccess block a few years ago. You had to list every ip from the country in the htaccess file. If you are going to block more than one country, it adds up to an enormous file. Especially if it is a country like China, India, or the US. (Just examples.)

Overall it still saves on bandwidth, but each time someone comes from any country, the server has to go through all the ips listed to allow or deny. It will add to the server load.

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Joe118

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

You would use country IP blocks I believe this reduces the server load. I use to use it on a blog network because Badau, I think that's how you spell it; the Chinese search engine was killing my servers.

Unfortunately this is VERY easy to get past. Not effective at all. Better to block in paypal.

I've blocked China.

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Robert Michael

12 years ago

lol i have several reasons why i dont want to accept credit cards for digital items..

main one, being scammers.

if someone wants the product that bad, they will find a way to get the $ into their paypal balance.

i mean hell - u can even load a greendot moneypak DIRECTLY into your paypal account... so its not like they dont have any other option but a CC.

paypal doesn't offer "protection" for digital goods, and neither do i. u dont get to keep the $ and the product.. doesnt work that way.. lol or at least not with me.

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rajeevsh

12 years ago

Woah, that's something I didn't know and would be very handy. Thanks for sharing!

I have tried the htaccess way -- and thankfully, I don't need to do that on every site I sell from -- but it's pretty easy to get around that.

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tpw

12 years ago

Blocking countries will shut out some of my better customers.

I would be more interested if PayPal could offer us the ability to blacklist specific customers.

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GMD Banned 12 years ago

For those that use PayPal to receive payments (by way of selling products or services) and have the patience to read this is a great resource:

Using Your PayPal Account Profile
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kindsvater

12 years ago

Still possible? I'm not seeing this option in my PayPal account. I see an option to block non-US buyers, but not on a country by country basis.

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GMD

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

Still possible? I'm not seeing this option in my PayPal account. I see an option to block non-US buyers, but not on a country by country basis.

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https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/...nly/td-p/48837

It's technically NOT possible, but it's also possible. Great thread above about it (though the OP's title is deceptive)

To view and update your PayPal Payment Receiving Preferences:

Log in to your PayPal account.
Click Profile at the top of the page.
Click My selling tools.
Click Update in the Block payments section.
Update your settings and click Save.

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kindsvater

12 years ago

Originally Posted by GMD

To view and update your PayPal Payment Receiving Preferences:

Log in to your PayPal account.
Click Profile at the top of the page.
Click My selling tools.
Click Update in the Block payments section.
Update your settings and click Save.

That is what I was looking at. The only remotely close option is to block all non-US PayPal accounts.

That other PayPal community thread is interesting for shipping physical products: create a shipping table for certain countries and set the amount to a bazillion bucks. Not sure how workable that is for digital downloads.

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icmpvpn

12 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

That is what I was looking at. The only remotely close option is to block all non-US PayPal accounts.

That other PayPal community thread is interesting for shipping physical products: create a shipping table for certain countries and set the amount to a bazillion bucks. Not sure how workable that is for digital downloads.

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Same here, I can only block non-US PayPal accounts but not specific countries.

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Don Schenk

11 years ago

Originally Posted by kindsvater

That is what I was looking at. The only remotely close option is to block all non-US PayPal accounts.

It's in there. Mine is a business account.

GMD mentined these:
"Log in to your PayPal account.
Click Profile at the top of the page.
Click My selling tools.
[Not This One...] Click Update in the Block payments section.
Update your settings and click Save."

But it is not in Click Update in the Block payments section.

The one above that is "Managing risk and fraud." Update this.

Then on the left, click "Edit you filter settings."

Agree to their terms.

On the page that comes up after you agree, choose "Edit" under "Contry Monitor."

There is a long drop-down menu listing the countries.

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gearmex

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Don Schenk

It's in there. Mine is a business account.

GMD mentined these:
"Log in to your PayPal account.
Click Profile at the top of the page.
Click My selling tools.
[Not This One...] Click Update in the Block payments section.
Update your settings and click Save."

But it is not in Click Update in the Block payments section.

The one above that is "Managing risk and fraud." Update this.

Then on the left, click "Edit you filter settings."

Agree to their terms.

On the page that comes up after you agree, choose "Edit" under "Contry Monitor."

There is a long drop-down menu listing the countries.

:-Don

i have business account from Hong Kong and unfortunately it does not exist in there, i guess its country specific settings...

i have is:

Profile->My selling tools->

Getting paid and managing your risk: (under it have these options)

- My automatic payments
- Instant payment notifications
- Block payments (inside no have anything about country blocking)
- Customer service message

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geekology

10 years ago

Yes this looks like US specific setting. I also have a business account and blocking at country level is not available for me either.

Originally Posted by gearmex

i have business account from Hong Kong and unfortunately it does not exist in there, i guess its country specific settings...

i have is:

Profile->My selling tools->

Getting paid and managing your risk: (under it have these options)

- My automatic payments
- Instant payment notifications
- Block payments (inside no have anything about country blocking)
- Customer service message

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Fat Wolf

12 years ago

Nice, I never know there have such optional, thx

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therichb

12 years ago

A very nice info for paypal which I can use even while doing money transactions. Since paypal is really important for my business, i will get this fixed asap & possibly that will lower down any further issues of money flow restrictions...

I point why paypal do not include these things clearly in their FAQs as when i tried to find, i was lost in the loads of information

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OnlineAddict

12 years ago

Unfortunately, every time I have been scammed in the past 10 years and it was like 5-6 times(I only count $1k and above), it was someone from the US and I can't block them. lol

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igrowyourbiz

12 years ago

maybe it is a feature of BUSINESS accounts? IDK

I only ever have biz accounts with paypal

I selected about a dozen countries to block. Works wonders

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icmpvpn 12 years ago

Originally Posted by igrowyourbiz

maybe it is a feature of BUSINESS accounts? IDK

I only ever have biz accounts with paypal

I selected about a dozen countries to block. Works wonders

Upon further searching, it appears like it is really only available on business accounts.
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seobro

12 years ago

It is easy. Log on to paypal.com, then go to your Add Funds area, and finally click on MoneyPak to add your cash money. It is so easy. Wish all my problems were as hard as this one. Then again, there you go. BTW, you can get you moneypak at your grocery.

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willza

11 years ago

Thanx for this!

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ronrule

11 years ago

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to ask a question if anyone knew the answer before contacting PayPal or scouring their help docs.

Is the block based on the buyer's IP address, or the payer's stated country?

Lets say I block China ... but the guy in China submits a payment using a hacked U.S. account. Does it go through, because it's a "verified US buyer" or does it get blocked because the PERSON signing in to that account is in China?

Any way to block OUTBOUND payments (ie; affiliate commissions) using this method? I was "hit" by a couple of phony affiliates on one of my WSO's ... they signed up as affiliates, bought using hacked Paypal accounts or stolen credit cards to get their commissions, then naturally the real account owner figured it out and charged back the purchase. I was able to get my commissions back through Warrior+ and JVZoo's refund option, but that leaves PayPal holding the bag.

Would be nice if there was a way to detect this and block the outbound commission, or at least hold it for manual review in these situations.

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dewayneboyd

10 years ago

Originally Posted by igrowyourbiz

If you notice (like I do) majority of so-called "refunds" and other fraud come from specific countries.

Now you can just block those countries from paying you altogether.

If you have a relationship with someone, you can disable it for thier payment, but for the average e-product, this may save you from flags on your account and unnecessary time wasted with fraudsters

Go to your Profile and under

>My Selling Tools
>>Getting paid and managing my risk
>>>Managing risk and fraud

You can set paypal to deny certain countries from making payment.

I just instituted this on mine.

Well, don't be shy. Which countries are you talking about?

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