I'm an irregular user of PayPal, I set an account up when I was 17 and sold a few things using it as the "middle-man" for transactions and has worked fine up until now. I sold a pair of shoes the other day and logged into my PayPal to withdraw the funds. upon which I was greeted with your account access is temporarily limited as I apparently didn't provide ID when creating it?- (why was able to make an account in the first place?)
so I provided id and got an email stating "We've reviewed the documents you submitted and determined that you were under 18 years old when you opened your PayPal account. You must be at least 18 years old to sign up for a PayPal account. From now on, you can't send or receive money with this account.".....
I rang up and got told to provide a bank statement to enable me to withdraw money and then received "We've reviewed your PayPal account again, but we're still unable to make the money in your account balance available for withdrawal at this time. This is because we must allow sufficient time for buyer complaints, such as chargebacks, to be opened by customers who've sent you money in the past. These can take several months to be reported and resolved and because they can result in financial loss, we need to leave money in your balance to cover any such eventuality."
how ridiculous!! firstly PayPal allowed me to set up my account when I was seventeen without a problem and I'm now at scrutiny for a transaction made using the account when I was 18 not 17. if age was ever a problem why didn't they require id for account setup? and secondly what does that second email even mean??
