[rockynate]

My business also suffered many of the same indignities, concluding with the freezing of my account and a 6 month hold on thousands of dollars. Our paypal account had an 8-year track record of perfect customer service - all issues handled immediately. We sell website construction software and marketing training services. We were taking in 28% of our income via paypal, with the rest through a standard merchant account. Losing this much of our business, along with having the funds held, was enough to collapse everything. The company is now in the process of being sold. I'm not saying it's all paypal's fault - we obviously should have had contingencies in place for such a circumstance - but they obviously had a huge part in the failure. I'm no longer angry about it; I'm just really sad. We posed no risk to paypal (years ago they placed a $5,000 reserve on our account which I was happy to comply with) and they couldn't give any reason for why they were doing this to us. 8 years of successful business is an eternity on the Internet. That track record seemed inconsequential to them. Causing this level of pain and heartbreak "because our TOS says we can" seems nothing short of... evil.