Okay people. Before you file a lawsuit consider this. Lawsuits are slow. There is a remedy for illegal acts by PayPal. I served as a judge for the State of Florida Department of Business, and Professional Regulation. It is the judicial arm of the State of Florida Secretary of State, and regulates all businesses foreign, and domestic doing business in the State of Florida. It's tied into the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Every state has one. When PayPal wants to do business in a state it MUST register with that state's Division of Corporations. In doing so PayPal agrees to abide by the laws of that state. That is who you want to file a complaint with first. PayPal will face an administrative hearing within usually 90 days. Florida's Division of Corporations would take a very dim view of what PayPal is doing holding money, and would hammer them pretty good with fines. If the state finds PayPal guilty you now have a finding of fact, then file your lawsuit and request a summary judgement in your suit as PayPal has already been found guilty. Then it's just a matter of the damages you win from PayPal. PayPal just paid out 4 million dollars in a class action suit. So it will be obvious to any court PayPal has not learned its lesson. The PayPal organization appears to have a criminal mindset. I will find out in the next 48 hours if I will end up filing criminal charges against PayPal for "mail fraud" as well as interstate commerce fraud, if they don't correct their outrageous conduct regarding a certain matter. PayPal's lower tier "Customer Service" is simply a bureaucratic jump through hoop process designed to discourage customers.
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