PayPal Community

DJten: Nope.  My funds are held and they're not from eBay.  I teach English online and was paid by the site I teach through.  Also a couple of students paid me directly from their own funds.  It's all held 21 days. I've never had a dispute or a problem anywhere.  ... View more

Here's an entertaining website, which DOES give some PayPal alternatives.    http://www.**bleep**-paypal.com/alternatives/alternatives_non_ebay.html   At least one of these alternatives claims they work with eBay (if you still want to stay with eBay):   http://www.merchantinc.com/ ... View more

If you want to stay with one of the evil twins (ebay) but leave the other one (paypal), here's an alternative.  It works on eBay sales, it says:   http://www.merchantinc.com/   I'm not vouching for it, and haven't tried it.  I got it off this website:   http://www.**bleep**-paypal.com/alternatives/alternatives_non_ebay.html   Maybe there's hope out there... ... View more

I'll go to that SEC complaint link.  Others should, too.   My money is being held and I'm not even involved in selling merchandise.  I teach English online with a website called English Cafe, and the students pay English Cafe.  They leave feedback on that website for our Skype tutoring sessions, but there is no shipping, no tracking numbers etc.  English Cafe then takes its percentage and pays me for my professional services.   So basically PayPal is holding onto my paycheck, which I get for the work I do teaching.   It's insanely frustrating that all their information only refers to shipping and tracking numbers.  If corporations get to be people now, why can't they be prosecuted for theft? ... View more

Thanks, romod.  I guess it's obscurely comforting that I'm not being singled out, but it probably shouldn't be.  Can we start an Occupy movement to protest PayPal?  ... View more

I'm intensely offended and frustrated.  I've been a very occasional eBay seller of this and that, never a complaint or dispute, always good feedback.  Now I've begun teaching English online to people in other countries.    Mostly I use a teaching forum, which has its own payment system, but one of my students pays me directly into my PayPal account.  There's nothing to ship, no eBay feedback to reference.  We have our class sessions on Skype; he's paying me for my time.   When he paid me $12, PayPal was OK with it.  Now that he's paid me $87, for a bloc of seven classes, PayPal has put a hold on all my funds.   I can't help wondering if this would be happening if he were not in a middle eastern country.  I'm wondering if PayPal is somehow told to flag anyone who has any interactions with people in certain countries. It's kind of creepy.   How can I explain to PayPal  what I'm doing, so that they remove this hold?  Or is it just a permanent condition? ... View more