PayPal are not a nice group of people

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I just tried to buy a copy of an album online, because it’s fairly decent and I know the guy who wrote it (I’d mention the name of it, but I don’t want it to come up in a Google search for “lying cheating thieving bullies”). Unfortunately, PayPal have still got my account blocked (apparently my moderately generic name showed up “on a list” – shocking). Also, they won’t allow my card to be used without logging in. So I can’t buy anything through PayPal. I also can’t close my account with them. Not until I send them some photo ID, some household bills at my billing address that aren’t phone bills/bank statements, and probably the rights to my first born child. Ignoring the fact that I don’t actually have bills going to my billing address that aren’t phone bills or bank statements, who do they think they are?

This isn’t the first tale of woe I’ve heard bout them. There’s an entire community of people who are in the same boat (Google for it), and I’ve heard accounts of them (or rather, their hired goons) showing up on peoples’ doorsteps demanding debt repayments because they (PayPal) made a clerical error.

Someday I hope to have something worth selling to the internet. It won’t be through PayPal (or their parent, Ebay, which I used frequently up until this happened). They’re nothing more then a bunch of thieving, badly regulated bullies.