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by SV_BubbleTime 20 days ago
I was selling a GPU on Facebook marketplace during covid.

The description was that the card was good for gaming or “turning dinosaurs into clean money”.

Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human.

I sold a rifle legally on an online auction site. The buyer was offered to pay with PayPal they were given the option to use. The buyer took that option, making me break PayPal TOS.

Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human.

Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why.

Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human.

Fuck. Big. Tech.
3 comments
maxbond 20 days ago
> Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why.

Prior to 2013 or after? Maybe they merged ban lists with PayPal (who owns them).

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phlogisticfugu 20 days ago
even though it was a joke, what you did looked like money laundering.

which probably triggered a SAR

which companies are legally forbidden from disclosing https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/rules-case-resou...

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dcposch 20 days ago
It's because Venmo is owned by PayPal
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SV_BubbleTime 19 days ago
It’s not though.

All three of those events were separated by at least a year each long after PayPal bought Venmo.

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