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[–] ardvarcus 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

I made a decision to never use PayPal, way back over ten years ago when they started freezing people's accounts for no reason, and refusing to give them their own money.

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[–] glassuser 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Same here. No paypal, never.

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[–] CognitiveDissident5 ago 

Yeah they did that to me.

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[–] bb22 [S] ago 

Sounds about right.

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[–] Commie_Meta ago 

BOBS: Goys-R-Us, it looks like you have been missing a lot of work lately.

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[–] hwong 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I have seen a few other threads lately about this exact thing. I bet they are....

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[–] bb22 [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

That's what I was wondering. I'm sure if this is happening then I'm not the only one to notice. I wasn't going to say anything initially either, because there's not a whole lot of alternatives anyway.

You don't happen to remember where you've seen similar complaints lately do you?

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[–] hwong 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think on reddit just a few days ago in /personalfinance I saw this exact thread where folks accounts wern't balancing, then a few days later they majically are.

I suspect paypal is syphoning off monies only for a short time, and then synching them back up.

I remember an old comptroller friend of mine at a small company (50 employees) would take all the accounts from the day (companies monies, bill monies, shipping monies, salary monies) which were all in seperate accounts, merge them and invest them overnight in stocks and bonds, then cash out int he morning and re-syncch the accounts for the day. Would make millions for the company over the year doing this everyday.. Turns out, if a fairly standard practice in US business to do this.

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[–] kammmmak 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Paypal is a scam. It's The most widely used way to scam sellers.

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[–] Wolfspider 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The better question is why put a face-hugger between you and your money.

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[–] bb22 [S] 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

It inserted itself into the chain between me and very large online markets.

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[–] jokersmild 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

IDK about skimming, but they definitely earn interest in any money you have.

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[–] CognitiveDissident5 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I will never use PayPal again EVER. They froze my account and stole my money about 6 years ago. Fortunately it was less than 50 bucks. They were one of the first to cut off services for people or small traders deemed guilty of wrongthink. Especially small traders selling natural health supplements. They're in bed with big pharma. It's a faceless company for which you can't find any phone number or address. The most annoying part was that they refused to close my account. They literally would not interact with me unless I agreed to their (new) terms and conditions, which I refused to do - that was why I wanted to close my account, because I didn't agree with the revised t &c. They are above the law,.like most corporations.

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[–] AlternateSelection ago 

Hate that you had to go through their bullshit like that. What are you using now? I use PP and Cash app. Would like to dump Paypal but it's used everywhere and very few people I know use Cash App. They definitely have a grip on the masses. Cash App is fast as fuck , btw.

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