[slenk]

Same thing with Paypal - I opened a business account, was able to do one transaction and was shut down for fraud. I tested a donation to myself. Under $10. Lifetime ban.

fuck paypal

[sithadmin]

That’s not unique to PayPal. Pretty much any payment processor that detects a proprietor paying themselves is going to throw up a red flag for circular cash flow fraud and close the account. Bank-operated payment processors are often slower to catch it, but they will also boot you for this.

[calvinmorrison]

real payment processors also you just call on the phone and they fix it. That's not a real problem. we do test orders on many go lives per year and never see this. Yes there are sandboxes, but you always gotta test real transactions by the end.

[slenk]

Ok - but maybe tell me that? They won't officially tell me anything or let me talk to a person. Form email every time.

At the time I didn't have a better way to test that my form worked.

[GoblinSlayer]

Here clown world is going strong too. My bank bans me every time I pay taxes.

[wpm]

I sold some camera equipment on eBay once. PayPal flagged my account as fraudulent, asked for a receipt for the equipment which I did not have (I bought it years before), so they banned my account indefinitely.

Randomly, years later, they turned it back on. Thanks, I guess?

[slenk]

They want to make money off your transactions again I guess. Must get more from Ebay

[abustamam]

Fuck PayPal.

Fwiw Venmo is run by the same thugs who run PayPal. So go figure.

[slenk]

Yup. Both bad companies IMO