[dangrossman]

PayPal never steals all of your money. The worst that can happen is a 180 day freeze before funds are turned over to you, which is exactly the same way all payment processors handle risk issues. That's how long Visa/MC tells MAPs to hold the funds because that's the standard time limit on customers performing chargebacks, which becomes the basis of the policies set by the 3rd party processors that are in contract with MAPs to do the actual card charging.

[jellicle]

Results 1 - 20 of about 32,000 for "paypal stole my money". (0.29 seconds)

No, Paypal's thefts are not generally about issues with Visa/MC, but rather with Paypal unilaterally deciding that an account is "fraudulent", and Paypal deciding to permanently keep all funds in that account. This is in addition to their broken dispute resolution process as well. Using Paypal is a risk that a corporation should be required to disclose to all investors in bold print. "WARNING: THIS COMPANY USES PAYPAL TO PROCESS PAYMENTS AND THUS MAY BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE."

[dan_manges]

The worst that can happen is your company goes out of business. http://whiteelephantmedia.com/ - Paypal requested $600k to keep the account open.

[dangrossman]

That is a pretty amazing story, the likes of which I've never read before. I can't even imagine how that situation came to be!