Congrats. Good to hear. Why didn't you go with another payment service while down?

Hi, good to hear that your good with paypal again, iv heard lots of horror stories regarding paypal so in future if your really serious on your business you should consider taking other payment processing merchant companies .

Wow. You're the first person I've heard that has actually had an account with them restored after being suspended. If you care to share the details about how you lost and then got back your account, it may help others in the same boat.

I've never had any problems with them, but have also heard the stories.

You've been able to validate that you're different than all those other people.

Have you considered trying Google Checkout?

isn't there an alternative for paypal?

Clickbank I find is the best alternative if you are selling a product or paydotcom.com

Regards
Owen

Congratulations on you getting your paypal account restored.

I have heard horror stories about some of their actions, but personally have not had a proble as of yet.

Thanks, Norm

What happened back in the day is that I tried to verify my bank details so just as Santander took over Abbey (for anyone living in England) which then made it like my bank didn't exist and couple this with the epic pooch screw of monumental proportions that using a wrong account would do when it will not allow transfers like that :p

Basically it was simply a case of sending them documentation of my name and address, what took a lot longer than that was actually getting around to fixing my decrepit computer and making sure it would send something I scanned...

My scanner works perfectly if you want to record the sound of a thousands sledgehammers being churned in a cement truck, it is not that great for getting pictures on your computer though lol

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And yes, I had considered using other processors and actually have Alertpay but truthfully I was having a hard time telling other people who do this what it is, let alone anyone else who are familiar with paypal and recognise it as the de-facto standard lol

Glad you got your account back - I have heard of other stories like this - BUT (knock on wood) I have NEVER had any problems with Paypal or Alertpay

Great to hear that you got your account finally restored. I personally have not had any issues with Paypal (knock on wood), but already have alternatives in place just in case things go south, and I'd either use my merchant account or Google Checkout.

Paul

Congrats!!!!

Been there, done that
Took a year for me to REPLACE a business debit card...

But in the end...PayPal came thru for me

Glad to hear your account is restored!

If you want to hear their side of the story, just do a Pacer court document search for PayPal cases and see their responses. Quite often, their defense is that the user agreement states that they can freeze an account for any reason that they want and that they do not have to justify it. You can call it urban legend all you want, but that would be silly, considering that PayPal themselves have stated this. I am not advising people not to use PayPal, just not to put blind faith into any company, especially one that tells you they can do what they want, when they want.

Yes I will use them, after all it is my own stupidity in using a wrong account that caused it all and I am not that rich that it makes a difference, I simply had to learn how to do many things for cheap or free and also try to work some stuff out on my own (I am crap at writing for instance but damn good at finding domain names) ...and when is that a bad thing? lol

The biggest problem that everyone has is that they are the biggest provider in the world with the most exposure and that guard that jealously and will not get together with anyone else, effectively holding a monopoly and they may not be the best or have the best ease of use or even the best service record but apparently that does not seem to matter since they were here first. MySpace was before Facebook but that went by the wayside because it couldn't keep up....maybe what paypal needs now is to be FORCED to team up with other providers to help customers rather than simply locking their account, effectively freezing their assets off in the cold and leaving it like that.

Paypal was the first and got the widest press, that does not mean they are the best and until they have some real competition from the likes of Amazon teaming up with Alertpay or something like Ebay did they can do whatever the hell they please :p

Congrats.

But don't assume anything. Find an alternative payment processor.

PayPal can still screw you up yet, again.

Lesson learnt? Always have more than one payment processor incase this type of thing happens. If you had 2 you could have just swapped out the links and continued on as normal.

I've haven't had any problems with paypal! So far.....

Paypal is a bit rubbish!

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I'm not a fan of PP, but they are so integrated into everything that we can't go without them anymore.