Hi, I recently began putting more focus and planning into booting up an older business of mine, and I just signed up for PayPal to consider using it as a quick means to accept payments from customers. I signed up, created API credentials, popped their javascript code onto a server of mine, and ran a test transaction on one of my credit cards. I browsed around, checked it out, and it looks like PayPal has really come a long way in the last years.
On a side note, as I type this, I keep on having to fill out the "I'm not a robot" captcha. I keep clicking it because it is annoying to just stare at it.
And then the next day I receive an email that states that my purpose of creating an account is "engaged in activity to deceive PayPal and its customers". At first I assume this is interesting timing for a spammer's phishing email. But hey, I'm curious! And now I see that the button link indeed goes to paypal.com .... Wow! What a waste of time: sign up to check out a service, and then the service tells you, "hey I know you're new here, but you're here to deceive PayPal and its customers."
Another business of mine uses PayPal simply to pay an overseas vendor and send invoices to a handful of customers. Apparently, that is all that PayPal is good at doing, and any sense I got that PayPal had "come a long way" is clearly why I stopped using them long ago: suddenly you become some false positive for their company. I wonder how many legitimate customers businesses lose every year by using PayPal in the first place because PayPal thinks a paying customer is "trying to deceive them"?
Thank you, PayPal, for quickly terminating the relationship before I invested more time and resources into your solution. Good riddance!
