The reason given was "Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for certain sexually oriented materials or services or for items that could be considered obscene". This is wrong/false on so many levels. We used PayPal only as a means to receive voluntary donations from people who wanted to support further development of Voat and to help pay for our hosting fees. This is beyond crazy.
According to PayPal User Agreement, our funds can be kept by PayPal for 180 days. I requested further clarification from PayPal, but I would like to advise everyone who planned to donate to Voat - to NOT do so via PayPal.
Honestly, I don't know what I expected when I trusted PayPal with our donation money. I apologize to everyone who donated to us through PayPal and I will badge everyone who did so even if the funds are never released by PayPal.
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bloodguard ago
This reminded me that I have a paypal account I haven't used for a while ( not linked to any bank cards ). I've been clicking the "Close account" for about 15 minutes and I keep getting
"Sorry, there's a problem. If you keep seeing this, please contact customer service".Too funny. Upside is that it motivated me to move $50 BTC into my wallet. I'll be shipping it off to voat.co as soon as it settles.