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“Nothing scary with Paypal, only unverified members create their own scare.”

Yup correct, and that $1.95 isn’t really a charge, that amount will be credited back to your account ONCE you have verified your credit card (EXPUSE number something like that I forgot)

“Verification can only be done in minutes if you have online access to your card for after you have paid the 1.95 amount.”

Oh for those scared fucks again: here’s the word for the day for you all, its “UNVERIFIED”. Look up what is the meaning of that word and maybe you can link these so called lock-downs situations and why are they happening.

And for all of you scared fucks out there, google how many are using paypal. One of the main reasons why paypal locks an account is for your protection.

In every basket of tomatoes there must be some rotten ones. How about epassporte, there are some similar cases to this right? Don’t you get the pattern? Why do these things happen?

If you’re opening a paypal account, make sure you have it verified before you even accept money from other sources (The $1.95 charge to your bank account is refunded as a bonus/credit back to your paypal account after they have verified you as the holder).

Lock downs happen here in the US for paypal users using ebay and and are selling stuff to other countries. That raises a flag to paypal! I’m an ebayer too so I avoid dealing with international buyers to protect myself. I only sell to US residents. On top of that, I also receive money thru paypal from different sources online. So far, I have never had ANY problems with my paypal account counting almost 4 years being a member.

For my own security and peace of mind, I agree with the comments on not maintaining a balance on paypal. I have made it a habit to just leave $30.00 on my account when I know I’m buying something soon BUT most of the time I leave it ZERO balance! After all, when you need to pay- you can always use your bank account or credit card thru paypal as for there- your debit cards.

Forgive the lengthy comment. Just wanted to balance the comments and wanted to share my experience as a happy paypal US-verified member for 3 years. Mabuhay!

Unless their policy has changed (grabe naman), the possible offense could be more heinous. Like fraud. But that’s always a suspicion first. To be investigated later. Hope he/she’s innocent.

Verification lifts the limits. I called their support before and the lady assured me that using the (unverified) account won’t have problems except that there will be sending & receiving limits. I had nothing to worry about, she added. I can even withdraw to a HK bank account but only within those limits.

Unless, they changed their policies. Subra naman yun.

Nothing scary with Paypal, only unverified members create their own scare.

Paypal puts a temporary block in your account if you log on to paypal using a different ip address than what is stored in their system. it’s only temporary and they do it to protect folk from accessing your account. just answer their verification questions and it will be unlocked.

seriously, verification is piss easy. you put your credit card info there, they charge you $1.95 or some small amount, wait a few days/weeks/whatever until it hits your account and get the 4-digit code and put it online.

It was lockdown because it was suspicious. The account contained 750$ and wasn’t verified.

Actually, one of my paypal account got temporarily blocked because of a third party accessing it (according to paypal). I really don’t know what happened.

Anyway, it seems I can’t make it work so I just applied for a new EON card and made another paypal account.

i verified mine as soon as i signed up.

if you’re gonna conduct business using paypal, make sure you read as much information as you can.

it’s friggin easy and it shouldn’t be a hassle.

i made a TON of transactions on my paypal account — both purchases (on my standard chartered visa) AND people who buy my stickers on a daily basis (receive funds) and it’s all hassle-free.

paypal don’t cancel accounts for a reason. i mean, yeah, i’m sure they do (typical paypal horror stories) but if you’re following their policy and not doing anything suspicious then i don’t see the reason why anyone should fear them.