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by astrodust 5270 days ago
You forgot the part where, when you were visiting Eastern Europe, you accidentally logged back in to PayPal and they suspended your account and seized all the funds.
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You forgot the part where someone logs into your account from Eastern Europe, drains it, then uses it to perform fraud transactions on eBay, and PayPal does nothing, so you take it to the internet for some payback.

PayPal can be harsh, I get that, but I also understand that:

1. They have 100 million active accounts which leaves even a small number of bad experiences turning into floods on the internet.

2. Being able to prevent fraud is 95% of the game in this business.

3. More than half of those bad experiences are downright un-true (leave out parts of story) and involve some type of shady operations by the user.

More than half of those bad experiences are downright un-true (leave out parts of story) and involve some type of shady operations by the user.

From what I've read, more than half of the Paypal "horror stories" involve people being completely truthful that they're doing something shady, and not understanding why Paypal is suspicious.