Paypal freezing accounts? due to Upsell/OTO? How to prevent this? and avoid Via Funnels

Not much you can do about it.

PayPal (like Clickbank and many others) are cutting down their risk levels by moving away from some specific niches (make money online, trading, gambling, etc), thus randomly banning accounts that are active in those niches.

Now a days, it's simply not a good idea to rely on PayPal if you're processing any decent amount of transactions in these "high risk" niches. Sooner or later, PayPal could drop the hammer on your account.

If you prevent a consumer from being able to access their initial purchase, before they take another action, then that is grounds for paypal closing your account.

In other words, make the "No Thanks" link easy to locate and select.

What makes you think they have a problem with upsells?

I prefer to sell an e-book on amazon. Like this is far more safe and secure. Basically "no pay" pal is a night mare. They have a million reason. Yeah, to freeze your money. I must have move to the polar ice cap. All they can do is FREEZE us.

So how do are money back from pay pal?
They just cant keep it ,that would be stealing where I come from?

I'am using PayPal For five years now and Haven't got any problem yet.

Maybe you should Be good with them and They will do the same. Just sell securely and Don't dare to have lots of refunds.

Its so simple. Stay cool with PayPal they will take you to everest.

I've had this problem before and all you need to do is talk to paypal to clear it up.

Haven't had problem since and I have tons of OTOs on my squeeze pages.

If you want to prevent this from happening with you, you must keep in mind few things:

If you are expecting to receive a large sum of money, then you should call Paypal ahead of time so they expect to see the extra funds. In other words, if you are planning a large product launch, make sure you let them know ahead of time.

When you first signup for Paypal Website Payments Pro, there’s a survey that you have to take. Make sure that you check off higher numbers in terms of how much money you anticipate making every month.

Make sure your name or the name of your business is on your Paypal account and that it exactly matches your bank account and credit cards.

Use the exact same addresses and phone numbers that match your bank account and credit cards.

I often wonder if Paypal in Europe is more lenient than in the US, I got scammed last Nov to the tune of a couple of thousand dollars (All my own fault I hasten to add as I didn't do my due diligence) with credit card fraud and had to refund lots of people a lot of money. Only realized what was happening when the chargebacks came rolling in.

To say I had a major panic attack is an understatement, I've had my PP account since 2002 and would have been devastated if it had shut down.

I refunded everyone who had bought through the particular affiliates I identified and once I'd done that, I rang Paypal and explained what had happened. PP could see I'd taken positive action to resolve the problem and the girl told me that she would check my account in a few days and if it did get red flagged would sort it for me and keep my account open

I was on tenterhooks for weeks afterwards. the really weird thing was all the chargebacks I got afterwards PP disputed for me and I won them. (Don't forget it costs $20 for every chargeback you accept!!)

Point I'm making is I've always found that with PP you should do your own risk management, making your account as secure as you possibly can. And if stuff happens, grit your teeth and get it sorted before they do it for you.

As for the other subject in this thread about forced optin for stuff customers bought? that's been a hairy chestnut for years, It pisses many of your customers off and I can't understand why so many vendors still do it. Why build a list of pissed off people who are probably gonna flag you as spam anyway when you mail them the latest piece of whatever you're flogging.

BTW as a side note to my scam story above, a few weeks after it happened, a flood of refund money was paid into my PP account from one of the scammers, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when he realized what had happened...

Kim

I wouldn't worry about it too much since adaptive payments has pretty much quelled PayPal's lethal axe. As long as you aren't scamming people, no worries.