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by devd00d 1318 days ago
What a smart way to slowly destroy your own business.
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Hey, that row in their database that represents your account info isn’t paying for itself!
It costs them lots of cents to store those bits of data, it's only fair!
Thought the same thing. I got the notification and deleted my account.

It's pretty funny too, since someone asked me to Paypal them some money shortly after. As I didn't have an account anymore, we used Zelle instead.

I guess some middle manager gets to make some slides about how they made x amount of money out of inactivity fees, while ignoring all of the business the company lost.

It's super short sighted they will make a few bucks at the expense of lost customers and their reputation.
Whatever is keeping PayPal in business, it's definitely not their reputation.
You can't destroy a business when they have lobbyist that will get politicians to bail them out and send them socialism checks while they complain about people getting money to afford food.