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PayPal Strikes Again

PostPosted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:42 am
by GallowayPrecision
For those of you that still use PayPal, you should stop immediately. While in the past we were forced to use them on eBay, they shut down our payment processing and seized around $13,000 in our account saying we had violated their Acceptable Use Policy. Here's the thing, nothing we sold on eBay violated that, because well they use the blanket statement "Certain Firearm Accessories and Parts are banned from Sale". Don't tell you what parts, because then they can choose at whim what to shut down a small business for. Held our money for six months, well last week they changed their policy stating they would no longer absorb violation fees that they pay to the U.S. Government. Oh and these "violations" are $2500 a pop. They have NO ACTUAL PAPERWORK on what we violated, and refuse to give us anything. Only $2500 violation I can think of would be ITAR, and we don't ship outside of the US. So they kept our $13,000 dollars saying it was fees for violations, haven't told us what it was nor will tell us, and because of the current political climate we can even get our own Sheriff's Department to file charges. They say somewhere buried in the legalese will be clauses that they can do this. Add in that PayPal is super friendly with our current governor and they are in the same f'ing building as our state Attorney General means that money is gone forever. A few months payroll for one employee gone. Bonuses for employees gone. All highly criminal behavior, but completely legal because our illustrious Government has allowed corporations more rights than actual people. Think we were the only ones? Nope, everyones favorite grip appliqué Tractiongrips, Type 01 FFL Dealer has had their eBay account suspended, and I would guess at this point their account drained as well. Don emailed us this morning with Google Ad Sense terminating his account without ANY PRIOR VIOLATIONS OR REASON, stating it is due to a change in their policies. Wake up people, Big Brother doesn't have to ban shit, they're getting their corporate lackeys to do all the work for them.

Re: PayPal Strikes Again

PostPosted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:53 am
by Scorpion8
I've never understood why eBay has been so anti-firearms yet they still allow a LOT of firearms stuff to be sold on their marketplace. But rest assured, I always get my Galloway stuff straight from you all, not via eBay. The crux of the matter is that eBay makes finding what you need so easy, with the simple search.

Re: PayPal Strikes Again

PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:09 pm
by John A.
Sorry to hear that. Though I'm not surprised.

Seems like all the cheap Chinese knockoff imports never get banned from ebay.

yet, I would surmise that 90% of the complaints to ebay are from them because they don't want the competition.