u/ChunkyDickCheese

Classic, Sunday evening, Lowe’s order.

Totaling three candy bars and a 24 pack of glass bottle Coke.

Kudos to them for the solid tip.

u/ChunkyDickCheese — 4 days ago
▲ 6 r/paypal

Account Closure, Restoration, Funds Frozen

TLDR: Account dead. Funds Frozen. Customer services basically said oh well, filed an "appeal" and it seems like I am just stuck. It's about $1,000 frozen.

So I have been using my business PayPal account for a few years.

Yesterday I took payment from a client for a website and it was a larger payment. I figured they might do the "account limitation, provided documentation" real quick thing and sure enough they did as soon as the client paid the invoice I sent.

I uploaded my ID, provided signed agreements for the other transactions they asked about and explained my business, again. They have done this in the past and usually within 30 minutes everything is good to go. Well, not this time. Nothing happened for the entire day.

This morning I wake up to an email account perma-banned.
Reason "Based on the information we have today, there was information used to create this account that we cannot verify."

I have had this account for years how is there an issue with the information used to create it?
Customer support was useless, no worries. They submitted an "appeal" and said to wait.

In the meantime, my funds are frozen and may be for almost 6 months?? This is insane.

I emailed every PayPal email I could find from a thread that said reaching out could help.

I filed complaints with the CFPB, BBB and Texas Attorney General because this feels really odd that they can just freeze my money, without providing the full reason and just say "Yupp, wait it out"

I never violated a policy, had zero chargebacks.

Any insight or help would be awesome!

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u/ChunkyDickCheese — 6 days ago