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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C_IsForCookie ago
Dude, PayPal sucks hard. We started using them as a processor at work after having them for years. I rang up an $18k transaction and BOOM they stopped letting us withdraw money. They said they had to investigate our business practices. The fuck? It's like they don't want us giving them their over inflated processing fees. It's nuts.
For those who don't know, eBay just sold them off. I speculate it's because eBay is going down the crapper and needed the money.