Paypal has gone too far. SA's donation drive account frozen

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Paypal has gone too far. SA's donation drive account frozen

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And thus gains $20,000. What a bunch of assholes. Basically, the site somethingawful.com set up a hurricane relief donation drive, got about 20,000 dolars raised, and then paypal froze their account. So what happens to all the people's money? Well... who knows. This isn't the first time Paypal has fucked people out of their money. It's happened many times with 4chan. Now, a 4chan donation drive is one thing. But come on, this is a DISASTER RELIEF FUND. Fuck Paypal, I hope they rot in hell.

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9/03/2005 - 9:36 PM - Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka

Well, after breaking the $20,000 donation mark, Paypal decided to shut down the donation account. Why? Here's their reason!

They are asking me to provide a shipping number FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. How they hell am I supposed to comply with this? What do they want? Oh, well you see, here's proof I shipped NOTHING via NO COMPANY to NO ADDRESS. Is this good enough?

I have no idea what will happen to all the donations you guys contributed. All I know is Paypal has locked me out of the account. I'm going to try to straighten things out with them, but I think everybody here is awfully familiar with Paypal's service.

You try to do something good for people and look what happens.

I guess the nice ladies and gents at Paypal are now using your funds for Project: Paypal Takes Your Money. Sorry your donations can't go to help those in need.
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Post by duffman91 »

I'm sure they'll clear it all up. I wouldn't be surprised if its just a flag that locked the account for going up 20 grand in less than a day.
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Post by shiznit »

Paypal is fucking scum, I fucking hate them, I lost over $200 because of these fuckers. They lock shit for no reason and don't give the money back and I've been scammed once and didn't do shit about it. Fuck I hate them but there is no better alternative. :(

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shiznit wrote:Paypal is fucking scum, I fucking hate them, I lost over $200 because of these fuckers. They lock shit for no reason and don't give the money back and I've been scammed once and didn't do shit about it. Fuck I hate them but there is no better alternative. :(

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good read.

I had no idea this kind of thing was going on and its gross to read some of those stories. If something like what happened in those stories happened to me i would probably have to kill a couple of people.
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Post by mjrpes »

If 10,000 somethingawful users decided to call paypal's 1-800 support number about this issue at the same time, I'm sure it would get cleared up pretty easy.
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Post by mjrpes »

My memory has been failing me, but weren't there rumors that google was going to start up a service to compete with paypal?
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When it comes to money google won't be much better then paypal. Look at adsense, they lock your account if you are making a lot of money from it.
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Man... Google Banking.
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Post by bitWISE »

So why did SA need to set up an intermediary between the donators and the charities?
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Post by duffman91 »

bitWISE wrote:So why did SA need to set up an intermediary between the donators and the charities?
To act as a community.
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

bitWISE wrote:So why did SA need to set up an intermediary between the donators and the charities?
To act as a community. We often have fund raisers.
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Post by Turbanator »

I put money on the paypal account never actually being locked and the guy who ran the donation drive will actually be driving a new car next week...
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

Lowtax is not like that.
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Post by Don Carlos »

w3rd
He did a Tsunami thing did he not?
Where were you when the West was defeated?
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Post by blood.angel »

I was thinking, radium (SA server admin) is from New Orleans and his parents house and their business got wasted. Therefore they are technically helping the people of New Orleans, if they are giving it to radium.
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

Don Carlos wrote:w3rd
He did a Tsunami thing did he not?
Yep and we raised money to buy armour plates for soldiers in iraq and recently we had our second annual toy drive which is where everyone who can donates some cash then the organisers go on a spending spree in toys r us and donate it all to the terminal illness childrens home.
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

blood.angel wrote:I was thinking, radium (SA server admin) is from New Orleans and his parents house and their business got wasted. Therefore they are technically helping the people of New Orleans, if they are giving it to radium.
No they're already set. This is a pooled donation to the red cross.
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Post by blood.angel »

Mr.Magnetichead wrote: No they're already set. This is a pooled donation to the red cross.
Yeah, that was the flaw.
Paypal really do suck.
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Post by Geebs »

Why didn't you stupid motherfuckers just donate to the red cross direct? Don't give me that "donate as community" bullshit. No wonder that account got locked, to anyone with an ounce of financial sense it's indistinguishable from a scam. Morons.
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

Yes because lot's of scams earn $20,000 in 7 hours.
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Post by Geebs »

If you hadn't been a bunch of morons, you'd just have put up a "donate to red cross" link.
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

Well if there hadn't been a fucking HURRICANE that destroyed our server we would have used our own payment system.
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Hey, Mr. Obtuse, why not use the Red Cross' payment system? Duuuhhhhhhhh
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Post by Mr.Magnetichead »

Because if it's a community effort it creates a certain amount of peer pressure which will increase the number of people donating.
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Post by SplishSplash »

Mr.Magnetichead wrote:Lowtax is not like that.
how do you know
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