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About 3 or 4 years ago PayPal added the option to buy cryptocurrency, which I thought I’d try. (Dumb idea 🙄)

Part of the sign up process was glitched. I retried and clicked submit one too many times, I guess. Now I’ve been unable to use PayPal for years. They blocked me because THEIR SITE was broken, but the web page essentially accuses me of being a criminal and asks for my bank records. No way in hell.

This was just for me to pay others. I can only imagine how awful PayPal is if you are a vendor.

Fuck PayPal.

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[-] thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

Me too, for receiving a $5 refund from Digital Ocean.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I got banned from the Kraken crypto exchange after waiting a year for them to approve me and after providing all my IRL credentials.

Told me I was banned, never to come back, and that they were going to report my fraud attempt to the authorities. Of course they refused to tell me what they thought I did, which didn't make any sense because all I had been able to do was make an account and make a verification request.

Never really even looked at crypto again beyond mining dogecoin for fun.

[-] UnkleFranc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Paying anything bought through PayPal credit. Wow.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I got locked out of paypal for no reason I could discern from like 2007 to 2015. Can’t remember the exact dates but for years it was “I can’t use paypal any more because my account broke” and then finally after years if that one day it was “oh shit it work look at that”.

[-] StaySquared@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When Paypal was inflicting financial penalties for, "misinformation" according to them, that's when I closed my account. Never again utilizing Paypal.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I wonder if you could sign up again with a different email. Seems like they would immediately know you're the same person. But, it is glitchy AF. So maybe it will glitch in your favor

[-] kinttach@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I thought about that, but they ask for enough info that they’d be able to identify me. And then they’d probably ban me. At least right now I have the option of restoring my account, even though I have no intention of doing so.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Woops, I should have considered that. I certainly don't blame you for not wanting to play their little game of sending them all that bullshit. There's Venmo and other options anyway.

[-] kinttach@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

That’s usually how I pay if someone requests money. Venmo is owned by PayPal but my account there works just fine.

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