[yayr]

One assumption could be that there are certain products/services that have age related regulations and Paypal needs to comply. Maybe, if your product or supplier wasn't on that list but you still got asked for a birthdate there was a misconfiguration in that regulation rule set...

[LawTalkingGuy]

One should assume that while they have your money they'll look for anything to use to keep it. Companies are literally legal devices for diffusing responsibility and hiding what the right hand knows from the left hand to remove the intent from what would be fraud.

They play all the games people here report - support reps who are nearly unreachable and who all refuse to read previous communication so everything starts from scratch, randomly just closing the case, etc.

It'd be hilarious if you could torture a paypal exec with their own company's treatment. Put a wheel lock on their car because you claim a similar looking car was stolen on the other side of the country. Refuse to take the lock off their car until they can explain the origin of the car's brandname. Relock the car immediately after unlocking it because they attempted to drive away too soon. Relock it the next time because they didn't drive away soon enough. Lock all of their cars because there's been "too much activity" on their vehicles.