Thank you very much for the idea to contact the FTC.gove on this clear violation of account holders rights. I am an upstanding Ebay and Paypal seller for more than 10 years. At the busiest time of my year, Paypal informed me that they would be holding my funds. I also ended up unable to retrieve the shipping portion of buyer payments to send their packages. Also, BEWARE long time UPS account users on Paypal, when entering a new street address to where I'd moved, Paypal tech representatives suggested I "un link" and relink my UPS account to their site when it wouldn't work. DO not do this! It is their way of making it impossible to link directly to your long term UPS account. They want you to have to go through them so they get their cut! Does anyone else remember how the shipping aspect of Paypal was touted as a service to help sellers and buyers? Well mr. nice guy has disappeared now that everyone is using this helpful linking option and Paypal is pulling out all of the stops to make sure that you WILL PAY THEM to link to the UPS and USPS websites. I'm sure both this hold of funds for account holders with excellent histories and this monopoly on linking to shipping sites with pre-filled information is illegal! After all, what are we paying almost 15% of our sales to Ebay and Paypal for? Peeved in Paypal land. WRITE THE FTC!!!!
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