PayPal limiting accounts.

keaton

I've been reading online that PayPal can be terrible to online businesses by limiting account i.e. holding the funds for upto 6 months and basically closing the account.

Does anybody have experience with PayPal doing this or how often they do it?

TKPeters

Yes [10yrs ago]

They specified issues of having 2 business accounts, even though I only had one business & one personal.

keaton

TKPeters wrote: »

Yes [10yrs ago]

They specified issues of having 2 business accounts, even though I only had one business & one personal.

So you've not had a PayPal account for 10 years?

preable

They limited my account yesterday for security!!! Had the account oer 3 years and no probs. Hopfully can get resolved asap but it has annoyed me!

TKPeters

keaton wrote: »

So you've not had a PayPal account for 10 years?

We got it back after a long fight & I guess with your 2nd thread they've ditched you
If your selling on eBay, you will need a Paypal account
Other options include Amazon & Payvment

claire07

I saw this thread and I had a message from Paypal a few weeks ago saying they were limiting my account and requesting copies of photo ID. I presumed it was a scam and ignored it.


However I have now logged in to my account and it says I have 100 days to send this to them. As my driving licence is before they had photographs and my passport has expired I am slightly at a loss what to do.

soolin

claire07 wrote: »

I saw this thread and I had a message from Paypal a few weeks ago saying they were limiting my account and requesting copies of photo ID. I presumed it was a scam and ignored it.


However I have now logged in to my account and it says I have 100 days to send this to them. As my driving licence is before they had photographs and my passport has expired I am slightly at a loss what to do.

Verification is something that occurs at pre set intervals, it is something that we all have to do after taking a certain amount of funds or if anything unusual happens.

If you do not verify your account then it will be lost and although you could probably open another one for a while, as soon as PayPal catch you that will be lot as well and possibly with your fuss held for 180 days as well.

Try asking if the expired passport is sufficient.

purple321

claire07 wrote: »

I saw this thread and I had a message from Paypal a few weeks ago saying they were limiting my account and requesting copies of photo ID. I presumed it was a scam and ignored it.


However I have now logged in to my account and it says I have 100 days to send this to them. As my driving licence is before they had photographs and my passport has expired I am slightly at a loss what to do.

Someone I know had to do this and she also had no driving licence or passport, they will take other ID you have to phone them and ask what they will accept. I can't remember what she used.

claire07

Thanks for the replies. I'll ask if they would take either the expired passport or something else. I'd been leaving it as I still wasn't totally convinced it wasn't a scam but now I know this happened to others I feel more OK about it.