Thats a total crock of crap, theres 2 excuses that paypal use....one is they dont allow the sale of ecigs, the other is that the vendors are selling copy/cloned items......Copy items I might add that dont have any copyrights on them!
The first excuse is invalid as in the UK there are no laws concerning the sale of ecigs & related items.
The second excuse is just hypocritical nonsense from paypal (something theyre getting quite proficient at lately) £100,000's are spent on Alibaba every week on ecigs & related items using paypal as a payment method, why havent they frozen Alibaba's paypal account ?....too much money involved perhaps ?? Again what about Fasttech ?....a massive percentage of those sales are ecigs, again why hasnt their paypal account been frozen ?....too much money involved again I suspect?....not to mention the fact that paypal germany are currently offering a 10% discount for buyers that use fasttech & pay via paypal.....are you suggesting paypal dont know a high percentage of those sales are for egics?.....because that would be a massive lie & we know it.
I guess you cant blame paypal 100% for them bending the rules to suit them & turning a blind eye to the sales as long as they generate large amounts of income....I guess theyve learnt from ebay....they also state in their rules that they dont allow the sale of ecigs, but a quick search will bring back 1000's of them, including copy/clones....seems theyre happy to turn a blind eye until something goes wrong, like the item isnt as described or the parcel goes missing....then ebay & paypal suddenly wash their hands of it....but theyve had their fees so theyre happy!
Im glad I dont use ebay anymore & it looks like its time to give paypal the boot as well, im sick of them being a nanny & telling me what I can & cant do with MY MONEY...........time to start using Worldpay, Nochex and Sagepay.
As someone else thats been messed around by paypal has said.............
If it helps, we decided on Nochex in the end. Had reps in from Worldpay, Nochex and Sagepay, but Nochex were far fairer and more transparent with their pricing structure. (No rolling reserve was nice too.) They went through the site with a fine-toothed comb and had a couple of references to cigarette brands removed from e-liquid listings, but have promised us that unless we break trademark/patent laws there will be no issues. They also categorically stated that we would have some notice if there were any issues and that they would not, under any circumstances bar criminal investigation, freeze our funds.
We've been with them for 2 months now and sales have started to get back to the level they were at before PayPal, no issues whatsoever so far and our account manager can be reached on the phone within a couple of minutes.
Paypal need to take heed from whats going on with Tesco, people are getting tired of big companies trying to pull the wool over consumers eyes & using bully boy tatics
