Has ANYONE here gotten paypal to unlock their account?

[PAB]

Someone paid me for an item and used a wrong word to describe it, so paypal flagged my account and closed it today.

YESTERDAY, someone unrelated paid me for an item and I initiated a fund transfer to my bank. Now that today they're closing my account, they've reversed that.

Anyone have luck fighting with them?

 

[simms]

You have to bend over if you want them to open your account back up.

Thankfully I had no money in my account when they locked mine. I just use another account..

 

[SunnyD]

Money orders are your friend.

 

[markgm]

I had an account that was closed in 99 reopened a year ago, they just didn't give me any of the money back (probably $1500.)

 

[Bryophyte]

Somebody posted a thread here not long ago about how paypal locked his account because they thought he was his brother, who owed paypal a bunch of money. He was successful in getting it unlocked, but it was hard work convincing them.

 

[nakedfrog]

Sellers usually get screwed. I had a buddy that got boned by an unscrupulous foreign buyer, and had $800 tied up in PP for a few months. He eventually told the guy to send the stuff back and he'd give him a full refund, otherwise drop the matter. He told the dispute department at Paypal not to do anything. The deadline for returning the items passed, and I guess Paypal then unlocked it.

 

[RightIsWrong]

I actually just went through with this about a month ago and was, amazingly, able to get them to re-instate the acct within a week. I sold an item that they automatically flagged because of the nature of it and it's possible uses. I had to submit via fax a receipt showing where I got it and that I paid for it, give a phone # of the buyer and jump through another hoop or two.

Suffice to say, the second that they reopened the acct I drained it. I have read a few sites and it is in their UA that they can suspend your acct for 180 days while investigating. Good luck trying to get it reopened.

 

[PAB]

They're screeninng subject lines and closing accounts that have any semblance of TOS violation. I'm pretty pissed since they reversed the money I had transferred to my bank yesterday.