I would like to preface this with a little history of the past week I've been using PayPal. I recently was looking to buy a laptop because I'll be going to college soon, so I found myself a nice $500 laptop on eBay and purchased it with PayPal. Cool! Well, after buying the laptop on eBay, I get an email from the seller telling me they were actually out of stock, and that they would refund me if I wanted. So of course I asked for a refund. After requesting my refund, my eBay account is immediately banned. For what? I have no clue! I hadn't used it in literally years until now, and all of the sudden I'm banned for trying to get a laptop. No explanation whatsoever. After this I get an email from PayPal asking if I signed in at 3am, which I didn't. So I click "this was not me" and my account gets locked down temporarily. Someone tried to add their email to my account after hacking in, but my account was locked before they did anything thanks to PayPal's security. PayPal then says that I need to provide an ID to unlock my account, so I upload my military ID. It processed all day without being confirmed and next thing you know I get an email saying I'm permanently banned from using PayPal for the rest of my life. What the actual heck! This is outrageous! And to make matters worse I can't even contact PayPal through the normal means because my account is "restricted". I have no clue if this will even reach a PayPal employee, it's my only way of even attempting to contact customer support anymore.
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