I've had a PayPal account since the early days of PayPal. For the past several years, my only bank has been Walmart's prepaid debit account, owned by Green Dot Bank. Until literally a couple of weeks ago, I have had no trouble with withdrawing funds to my debit card. For the past three days I've been getting an "unable to complete this transaction right now" message, so I contacted customer support (web chat) and was told they don't accept prepaid accounts. Since when?! When I asked if it had taken seven years for "the system to detect" that I was using a prepaid account, the agent told me "oh, we don't accept Green Dot accounts because we've had security problems with them".
1. Were they ever planning on telling anyone this?
2. Does anyone know how I can access my money now? I don't have another bank account, and this is the only money I have, so getting the cash is kind of important.
Thanks in advance!
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