Voat PayPal account has been permanently limited (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

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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HorzaDeservedBetter ago

$2,500.00 USD per violation of the Acceptable Use Policy is presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal's actual damages

I can be wrong, but I don't think this kind of clauses holds up in most European courts, as they could be seen as abusive.

Bug_Catcher_Joey ago

Ok, but who's going to go to court over this?

FlyingChainsaw ago

Someone who has to pay $2,500,-?

Bug_Catcher_Joey ago

Suing PayPal would require expensive lawyers, the kind that take $2500 for 2 hours of their work.