Quake3World

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:56 am**

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.

http://www.somethingawful.com/
http://www.somethingawful.com/paypal-sucks-01.png

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:02 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:13 am**

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.

http://www.paypalsucks.com

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:36 am**

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.

http://www.paypalsucks.com

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:37 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:39 am**

My memory has been failing me, but weren't there rumors that google was going to start up a service to compete with paypal?

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:41 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:41 am**

Man... Google Banking.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:08 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:10 am**

bitWISE wrote:So why did SA need to set up an intermediary between the donators and the charities?

To act as a community.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:36 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:30 pm**

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...

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:53 pm**

Lowtax is not like that.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:05 pm**

w3rd
He did a Tsunami thing did he not?

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:12 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:18 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:18 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:23 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:34 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:48 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:00 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:03 pm**

Well if there hadn't been a fucking HURRICANE that destroyed our server we would have used our own payment system.

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:05 pm**

Hey, Mr. Obtuse, why not use the Red Cross' payment system? Duuuhhhhhhhh

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:14 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:59 pm**

Mr.Magnetichead wrote:Lowtax is not like that.

how do you know

Quake3World

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

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