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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gnarvin ago
So after reading through this thread I decided I should only leave my CC on my paypal, but I cant remove my debit card because of an instant transfer that is pending. Not only does it not make sense that its pending on an instant transfer, the transfer in question does not exist at all. I can't even make myself feel safer on paypal now because paypal won't let me. What a terrible company, how is there no decent competition for paypal and google wallet yet they are so terrible.