May 9th, 2013 | 1 Comment »
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March 14th, 2013 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been pretty quiet lately but it’s not without reason, trust me. I have just launched a new web site, a project I decided to embark on for everyone’s entertainment and best of all it’s FREE. Yep, free. Why? Because we all deserve something free from time to time.
Anyway, since my channels have been such a big success these past few months I decided to make a dedicated web site for my channels and add other channels to the list as well, including music!
LMTV is now launched and ready for everyone’s use, so please, spread the word and enjoy all the free shows available for you with just a click of a button. Watch your favorite shows, movies, news, listen to today’s hottest music and more! Visit http://www.lmtv.us. Enjoy!
LMTV is all about free entertainment.
Watch free full episodes of Futurama.
Watch free full episodes of Family Guy.
Watch free full episodes of South Park.
Watch free full episodes of SpongeBob.
Watch free full episodes of American Dad.
Watch free full episodes of The Simpsons.
Watch free full episodes of Dragon Ball Z.
Watch free full episodes of TopGear.
Watch free full episodes of Stargate.
Watch free full episodes of Duck Dynasty.
Watch free full episodes of Kitchen Nightmares.
Watch free full episodes of Nat Geo/BBC Nature.
Watch free full episodes of Hardcore Pawn, Pawn Stars & Storage Wars.
Watch free full length movies and much, MUCH more! What more could you ask for right? Enjoy!
Anyway, since my channels have been such a big success these past few months I decided to make a dedicated web site for my channels and add other channels to the list as well, including music!
LMTV is now launched and ready for everyone’s use, so please, spread the word and enjoy all the free shows available for you with just a click of a button. Watch your favorite shows, movies, news, listen to today’s hottest music and more! Visit http://www.lmtv.us. Enjoy!
LMTV is all about free entertainment.
Watch free full episodes of Futurama.
Watch free full episodes of Family Guy.
Watch free full episodes of South Park.
Watch free full episodes of SpongeBob.
Watch free full episodes of American Dad.
Watch free full episodes of The Simpsons.
Watch free full episodes of Dragon Ball Z.
Watch free full episodes of TopGear.
Watch free full episodes of Stargate.
Watch free full episodes of Duck Dynasty.
Watch free full episodes of Kitchen Nightmares.
Watch free full episodes of Nat Geo/BBC Nature.
Watch free full episodes of Hardcore Pawn, Pawn Stars & Storage Wars.
Watch free full length movies and much, MUCH more! What more could you ask for right? Enjoy!
March 11th, 2013 | 1 Comment »
If you’re not aware, I recently launched a new web site named LMTV. Because this web site is free and ad-free I decided to place a Donate button on the site because after all I did spend a lot of time on the site, countless hours and even sleepless nights.
As a small disclaimer I would like to say that I can understand the nature of the web site and the fact that it is controversial in a few ways. Though, I recently found a court ruling that embedding streaming feeds is not considered illegal. Please refer to this site for more info: http://bit.ly/ZjDI9w
There’s actually more than a handful of these sites out there and I have seen PayPal donation buttons so I thought it was ok for me to do so. I guess I was dead wrong. I woke up one day to an email from PayPal saying that my account is permanently limited as shown here:
I just thought “ok so let me delete that button from the site and let’s get this limit lifted” man was I WRONG! This wasn’t a warning, this wasn’t a note, this was a permanent limit. They fought me every step of the way, down to even blacklisting me from sending them emails! They made the process of appealing this completely excruciating and beyond hard.
THANKFULLY my current PayPal balance was $0 as I had just recently transferred all my funds to my bank literally a day or two before I got this email. I have looked around and found people to have been on the same situation with thousands of dollars being held for 180 days, talk about crazy!
To make the back and forth copy/paste emails I will just shorten my FIRST reply to the above email by saying “I have removed all/any links to PayPal from my web site, is my PayPal account going to continue being limited or will you remove the limit?” and their response was “Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account. Due to the violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy, your account has been permanently limited.” To make a note, since I opened my account back in 2006 with PayPal, I have never ever had a chargeback, negative balance, limits or any type of negative record with them so I decided to fight this because it just wasn’t fair.
I was pretty mad so my second response was to ask them to permanently delete all my data, including my bank account, debit card and the account with them all together. Their response was simple, “no”.
After a few days and after some research my third email to them stated the following:
After this email and after waiting more than half a day, I got an from PayPal stating that they are thankful for the email and that they will review the case and soon after that I got the following email:
WHAT does this tell me?! What does it tell you?! PayPal decided “ok so your site isn’t against the law, but we still don’t want your business so here are other worthless reasons we found against you”… are you KIDDING me?! Now this is harassment, they basically changed their initial accusation against me but now found other “reasons” to use against me. After some more thought and research I sent the following email to these many PayPal emails I found from PayPalSucks.com
aup@paypal.com; mhentges@paypal.com; crme@paypal.com; harbor1@paypal.com; ppelce@paypal.com; complaint-response@paypal.com; abuse@paypal.com; resolutions@paypal.com; compliance@paypal.com; webform@paypal.com; service@paypal.com; spoof@paypal.com; press@paypal.com; apires@paypal.com; pending_reversal@paypal.com; global2@paypal.com; intl@paypal.com; ppe_courtesycredit@paypal.com;
My fourth email to them stated:
Yes, the above email failed to send with my main email account the server response came back with “Cannot Send Message. BLACKLIST”, seriously? Now I can’t even contact PayPal for ANYTHING? That’s ridiculous! So I had to send it through another email account I had. The NEXT day, they responded with the following e-mail:
Success! But talk about a PAIN in the ass! If you speak out, fight and SHOW them that you are not willing to give up that easy they will try to be more lenient. The e-mail basically states that even though they’re restoring my account I can no longer put any type of payment options on lmtv.us and their affidavit stated that if I do it again I will basically be banned permanently.
Even though I now pretty much hate PayPal I have to keep the account open because there’s just way too many people out there that prefer PayPal as a payment option. I hate their fees and much more their customer services but at this point I’ll leave it as dormant account unless I absolutely need to use it. Even if I close the account I have found out that closed accounts remain in a type of “dormant” status, you can’t use the account again but they do still keep your personal data on file, forever. This includes your name, address, bank account and any credit/debit cards. I wasn’t aware of this and I personally don’t like this because I figure that if I close the account, all data would be permanently deleted. Guess not.
I have since then switched to using Google Checkout and WePay, I’ve had Google Checkout for a while actually and never had issues with it. There really isn’t any benefits to either Google Checkout or WePay because their fees are the exact same as PayPal. I will like to point out though that WePay allows you to enter a Credit Card number into the system through their web site or even iPhone App (very handy!). I have not placed a donate button on lmtv.us again and probably won’t. It was just a project and thought it’d be nice to get some type of money for all the hours I spent on it but whatever.
Do YOU have a story with PayPal? Share it by commenting. Good luck with the fight against any type of harassment like this!
As a small disclaimer I would like to say that I can understand the nature of the web site and the fact that it is controversial in a few ways. Though, I recently found a court ruling that embedding streaming feeds is not considered illegal. Please refer to this site for more info: http://bit.ly/ZjDI9w
There’s actually more than a handful of these sites out there and I have seen PayPal donation buttons so I thought it was ok for me to do so. I guess I was dead wrong. I woke up one day to an email from PayPal saying that my account is permanently limited as shown here:
Dear Luis Mirones,
We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your account activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales on lmtv.us.
Please refer to:
- Transaction XXXXXXXXXXX
Therefore, your account has been permanently limited.
You will need to remove all references to PayPal from your websites and/or auctions. This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment option, but also the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.
The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy.
Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction. This includes transactions for counterfeit items or unauthorized replicas or copies of items.
The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US
To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help Center page here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help
We thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions,please contact the PayPal Brand Risk Management Department at aup@paypal.com.
Sincerely,
Dawn
PayPal, Brand Risk Management
PayPal, an eBay Company
————————————————–
Copyright © 1999-2013 PayPal. All rights reserved.
Responses to this email address are not monitored. Please send any additional questions that you may have to aup@paypal.com.
We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your account activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales on lmtv.us.
Please refer to:
- Transaction XXXXXXXXXXX
Therefore, your account has been permanently limited.
You will need to remove all references to PayPal from your websites and/or auctions. This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment option, but also the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.
The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy.
Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction. This includes transactions for counterfeit items or unauthorized replicas or copies of items.
The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US
To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help Center page here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help
We thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions,please contact the PayPal Brand Risk Management Department at aup@paypal.com.
Sincerely,
Dawn
PayPal, Brand Risk Management
PayPal, an eBay Company
————————————————–
Copyright © 1999-2013 PayPal. All rights reserved.
Responses to this email address are not monitored. Please send any additional questions that you may have to aup@paypal.com.
I just thought “ok so let me delete that button from the site and let’s get this limit lifted” man was I WRONG! This wasn’t a warning, this wasn’t a note, this was a permanent limit. They fought me every step of the way, down to even blacklisting me from sending them emails! They made the process of appealing this completely excruciating and beyond hard.
THANKFULLY my current PayPal balance was $0 as I had just recently transferred all my funds to my bank literally a day or two before I got this email. I have looked around and found people to have been on the same situation with thousands of dollars being held for 180 days, talk about crazy!
To make the back and forth copy/paste emails I will just shorten my FIRST reply to the above email by saying “I have removed all/any links to PayPal from my web site, is my PayPal account going to continue being limited or will you remove the limit?” and their response was “Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account. Due to the violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy, your account has been permanently limited.” To make a note, since I opened my account back in 2006 with PayPal, I have never ever had a chargeback, negative balance, limits or any type of negative record with them so I decided to fight this because it just wasn’t fair.
I was pretty mad so my second response was to ask them to permanently delete all my data, including my bank account, debit card and the account with them all together. Their response was simple, “no”.
After a few days and after some research my third email to them stated the following:
Dear PayPal,
It really saddens me to know that my PayPal account is permanently limited, cannot be appealed and can “never” be used.
However, I would like to point out certain facts about the site that you have reviewed (lmtv.us) and hence taken action to limit my account.
lmtv.us does not host, copy, sell or distribute any copyrighted content. It DOES however embed videos and streaming sites, all these streams come from Veetle.com and Justin.TV. All I did was simply facilitate the process of looking through their categories into one simple page with some buttons.
I will like to note the following web site about a court judgment talking about embedding videos. http://dottech.org/75407/court-rules-embedding-or-watching-a-copyrighted-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/ Where the site states that “Court rules embedding or watching copyrighted videos is not copyright infringement”.
Your department has taken the step to limit my account based on the fact that I violated this guideline “PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction.”
However, as I stated I was not in violation of copyright or infringement due to the fact that I do not host the file and only EMBED the stream that your team indicates is infringing copyright.
Please review this information, reconsider and lift my limit on my account because I still do need it for freelancer job payments since I do web design. I have never had any negative reports, chargebacks or activity on my account before.
It really saddens me to know that my PayPal account is permanently limited, cannot be appealed and can “never” be used.
However, I would like to point out certain facts about the site that you have reviewed (lmtv.us) and hence taken action to limit my account.
lmtv.us does not host, copy, sell or distribute any copyrighted content. It DOES however embed videos and streaming sites, all these streams come from Veetle.com and Justin.TV. All I did was simply facilitate the process of looking through their categories into one simple page with some buttons.
I will like to note the following web site about a court judgment talking about embedding videos. http://dottech.org/75407/court-rules-embedding-or-watching-a-copyrighted-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/ Where the site states that “Court rules embedding or watching copyrighted videos is not copyright infringement”.
Your department has taken the step to limit my account based on the fact that I violated this guideline “PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction.”
However, as I stated I was not in violation of copyright or infringement due to the fact that I do not host the file and only EMBED the stream that your team indicates is infringing copyright.
Please review this information, reconsider and lift my limit on my account because I still do need it for freelancer job payments since I do web design. I have never had any negative reports, chargebacks or activity on my account before.
After this email and after waiting more than half a day, I got an from PayPal stating that they are thankful for the email and that they will review the case and soon after that I got the following email:
———————————————————————-
Your account has been limited
———————————————————————-
Dear Luis Mirones,
We routinely review account activity in the PayPal system. When we reviewed your account, we noticed that your activity violates some of the agreements you have with us.
Because of this, we’ve limited your accounts and can no longer offer our services to you. You’ll still be able to log in to view your transaction history, but you won’t be able to send or receive money.
What’s the problem?
We noticed one or more of the following problems:
1. You provided information that we believe was false, inaccurate, or misleading; or
2. You sent or received money that was potentially related to fraudulent activity; or
3. You have more than one account with a negative balance; or
4. You are in violation of the User Agreement, the Commercial Entity Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, or another agreement you have with PayPal.
Our decision was based on terms outlined in these agreements.
What to do next
As allowed under the User Agreement, we’ll hold the money in your account for 45 days. We’ll use your balance to reimburse buyers who file claims, chargebacks, or any other reversals against you. Before we reimburse the buyer, in most cases, you’ll have a chance to respond to the claim, chargeback, or reversal.
We’ll send you an email after 45 days letting you know when you can withdraw money from your accounts.
If you think that we permanently limited your accounts in error, you may appeal this decision. Just go the Help Center and click Contact Us.
When you contact us, we’ll need some information to process your appeal. Please have your drivers’ license, your Social Security or tax ID card, a current utility bill, your business license, your articles of incorporation, or other identifying documentation.
Sincerely,
PayPal
———————————————————————-
Help Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help
Security Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/security
This email was sent by an automated system, so if you reply, nobody will see it. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any page.
Copyright © 2013 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.
Your account has been limited
———————————————————————-
Dear Luis Mirones,
We routinely review account activity in the PayPal system. When we reviewed your account, we noticed that your activity violates some of the agreements you have with us.
Because of this, we’ve limited your accounts and can no longer offer our services to you. You’ll still be able to log in to view your transaction history, but you won’t be able to send or receive money.
What’s the problem?
We noticed one or more of the following problems:
1. You provided information that we believe was false, inaccurate, or misleading; or
2. You sent or received money that was potentially related to fraudulent activity; or
3. You have more than one account with a negative balance; or
4. You are in violation of the User Agreement, the Commercial Entity Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, or another agreement you have with PayPal.
Our decision was based on terms outlined in these agreements.
What to do next
As allowed under the User Agreement, we’ll hold the money in your account for 45 days. We’ll use your balance to reimburse buyers who file claims, chargebacks, or any other reversals against you. Before we reimburse the buyer, in most cases, you’ll have a chance to respond to the claim, chargeback, or reversal.
We’ll send you an email after 45 days letting you know when you can withdraw money from your accounts.
If you think that we permanently limited your accounts in error, you may appeal this decision. Just go the Help Center and click Contact Us.
When you contact us, we’ll need some information to process your appeal. Please have your drivers’ license, your Social Security or tax ID card, a current utility bill, your business license, your articles of incorporation, or other identifying documentation.
Sincerely,
PayPal
———————————————————————-
Help Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/helpweb?cmd=_help
Security Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/security
This email was sent by an automated system, so if you reply, nobody will see it. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any page.
Copyright © 2013 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved. PayPal is located at 2211 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95131.
WHAT does this tell me?! What does it tell you?! PayPal decided “ok so your site isn’t against the law, but we still don’t want your business so here are other worthless reasons we found against you”… are you KIDDING me?! Now this is harassment, they basically changed their initial accusation against me but now found other “reasons” to use against me. After some more thought and research I sent the following email to these many PayPal emails I found from PayPalSucks.com
aup@paypal.com; mhentges@paypal.com; crme@paypal.com; harbor1@paypal.com; ppelce@paypal.com; complaint-response@paypal.com; abuse@paypal.com; resolutions@paypal.com; compliance@paypal.com; webform@paypal.com; service@paypal.com; spoof@paypal.com; press@paypal.com; apires@paypal.com; pending_reversal@paypal.com; global2@paypal.com; intl@paypal.com; ppe_courtesycredit@paypal.com;
My fourth email to them stated:
Dear PayPal,
I was notified once again that my account was limited; I will like to respond with an appeal and reply to your allegations against me.
———————————————————————-
Your account has been limited
———————————————————————-
What’s the problem?
We noticed one or more of the following problems:
1. You provided information that we believe was false, inaccurate, or misleading; or
• In the MANY years that I’ve had my account with you I have NEVER provided any false, inaccurate or misleading information. This was never an issue and if there was such an issue don’t you think it would be fair to let me know about this so I can correct the problem? You have ALL my personal data on file, none of it is false. This “violation” does not apply to me.
2. You sent or received money that was potentially related to fraudulent activity; or
• Once again, in the many years that I’ve had an account with your company I have NEVER had a chargeback, complaint, negative balance, or in the slightest way conducted any fraudulent activity. I help run a small web design company, silver-sphere.net – I have received payments from this web site and for freelancer web design jobs I have done. Are you telling me you have proof that I have stolen from people and conducted fraudulent activities on a legitimate business & web site? I would like to request for this proof, if any, which I’m BEYOND sure doesn’t exist.
3. You have more than one account with a negative balance; or
• Yet once again, in the many years that I’ve held an account with you this was NEVER an issue and NEVER will be. I have NEVER had “more than one account” and MUCH less with a negative balance.
4. You are in violation of the User Agreement, the Commercial Entity Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, or another agreement you have with PayPal.
• A little vague I would say BUT I did read through your agreements and have found out that throughout time you have changed your agreement and policies numerous times but not to my surprise, I have yet to find ONE thing that I have violated from our agreements and policies in place. It would be nice, however, to request specific detail as to WHAT was violated, if anything, so I can address the issue of my mistakes, if any, with any other companies I may be dealing with.
- As a side-note, I will like to go back to the initial reason as to why you have limited my account which according to you was in violation of this policy due to lmtv.us site (a web site that may be closed down soon)… “PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction.”
However, I’d like to inform you that the web site where I placed a DONATION button, not a PAYMENT button, and most definitely not a “buy this movie/song/album/software/etc” button (and more than anything that the button was optional, that it was up to the USER/USERS of the site to DONATE) was NOT in violation of any copyright infringement because the web site does not host, sell, distribute or force people to buy anything but in fact just embed streaming web sites which as a judge has ruled is NOT copyright infringement as stated on this and many other web sites (http://dottech.org/75407/court-rules-embedding-or-watching-a-copyrighted-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/)
It also looks like PayPal has blacklisted my email (xxxx@xxxx.xxx, very nice of you!). It seems to me that your company, PayPal, is trying to find any reason, means, and allegations necessary against me to discontinue my LOYAL business with PayPal. I find this offensive, bully-like and absurd. This is at best something I believe and feel to be known as harassment.
My request is to now PLEASE lift the ugly limit I have on my account because I have not had a bad record with any companies and this feels completely gut-wrenching to me. I do not like to feel harassed, molested and bullied like I am with PayPal right now. I really hope you can reconsider and finally lift this limit. Thanks.
I was notified once again that my account was limited; I will like to respond with an appeal and reply to your allegations against me.
———————————————————————-
Your account has been limited
———————————————————————-
What’s the problem?
We noticed one or more of the following problems:
1. You provided information that we believe was false, inaccurate, or misleading; or
• In the MANY years that I’ve had my account with you I have NEVER provided any false, inaccurate or misleading information. This was never an issue and if there was such an issue don’t you think it would be fair to let me know about this so I can correct the problem? You have ALL my personal data on file, none of it is false. This “violation” does not apply to me.
2. You sent or received money that was potentially related to fraudulent activity; or
• Once again, in the many years that I’ve had an account with your company I have NEVER had a chargeback, complaint, negative balance, or in the slightest way conducted any fraudulent activity. I help run a small web design company, silver-sphere.net – I have received payments from this web site and for freelancer web design jobs I have done. Are you telling me you have proof that I have stolen from people and conducted fraudulent activities on a legitimate business & web site? I would like to request for this proof, if any, which I’m BEYOND sure doesn’t exist.
3. You have more than one account with a negative balance; or
• Yet once again, in the many years that I’ve held an account with you this was NEVER an issue and NEVER will be. I have NEVER had “more than one account” and MUCH less with a negative balance.
4. You are in violation of the User Agreement, the Commercial Entity Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, or another agreement you have with PayPal.
• A little vague I would say BUT I did read through your agreements and have found out that throughout time you have changed your agreement and policies numerous times but not to my surprise, I have yet to find ONE thing that I have violated from our agreements and policies in place. It would be nice, however, to request specific detail as to WHAT was violated, if anything, so I can address the issue of my mistakes, if any, with any other companies I may be dealing with.
- As a side-note, I will like to go back to the initial reason as to why you have limited my account which according to you was in violation of this policy due to lmtv.us site (a web site that may be closed down soon)… “PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction.”
However, I’d like to inform you that the web site where I placed a DONATION button, not a PAYMENT button, and most definitely not a “buy this movie/song/album/software/etc” button (and more than anything that the button was optional, that it was up to the USER/USERS of the site to DONATE) was NOT in violation of any copyright infringement because the web site does not host, sell, distribute or force people to buy anything but in fact just embed streaming web sites which as a judge has ruled is NOT copyright infringement as stated on this and many other web sites (http://dottech.org/75407/court-rules-embedding-or-watching-a-copyrighted-video-is-not-copyright-infringement/)
It also looks like PayPal has blacklisted my email (xxxx@xxxx.xxx, very nice of you!). It seems to me that your company, PayPal, is trying to find any reason, means, and allegations necessary against me to discontinue my LOYAL business with PayPal. I find this offensive, bully-like and absurd. This is at best something I believe and feel to be known as harassment.
My request is to now PLEASE lift the ugly limit I have on my account because I have not had a bad record with any companies and this feels completely gut-wrenching to me. I do not like to feel harassed, molested and bullied like I am with PayPal right now. I really hope you can reconsider and finally lift this limit. Thanks.
Yes, the above email failed to send with my main email account the server response came back with “Cannot Send Message. BLACKLIST”, seriously? Now I can’t even contact PayPal for ANYTHING? That’s ridiculous! So I had to send it through another email account I had. The NEXT day, they responded with the following e-mail:
Dear Luis Mirones,
Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account.
Please refer to:
- Website/s: http://www.lmtv.us
In order to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy and return your account to good standing, you will need to:
- Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.
Thank you for removing PayPal from http://www.lmtv.us.
For more information about the status of your account and for instructions on how to restore full use of your account, please log in to your PayPal account and select the “Resolution Center” link. On the next page select the “Resolve” button/s located under the Action column, in the Steps to Provide More Information section and follow the applicable instructions.
We appreciate your cooperation and thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. If you have any further questions or need our support, please contact the PayPal Brand Risk Management Department at aup@paypal.com.
Sincerely,
Misty
PayPal, Brand Risk Management
PayPal, an eBay Company
————————————————–
Copyright © 1999-2013 PayPal. All rights reserved.
Responses to this email address are not monitored. Please send any additional questions that you may have to aup@paypal.com.
Thank you for contacting PayPal with your concern regarding the limitation on your account.
Please refer to:
- Website/s: http://www.lmtv.us
In order to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy and return your account to good standing, you will need to:
- Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.
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Success! But talk about a PAIN in the ass! If you speak out, fight and SHOW them that you are not willing to give up that easy they will try to be more lenient. The e-mail basically states that even though they’re restoring my account I can no longer put any type of payment options on lmtv.us and their affidavit stated that if I do it again I will basically be banned permanently.
Even though I now pretty much hate PayPal I have to keep the account open because there’s just way too many people out there that prefer PayPal as a payment option. I hate their fees and much more their customer services but at this point I’ll leave it as dormant account unless I absolutely need to use it. Even if I close the account I have found out that closed accounts remain in a type of “dormant” status, you can’t use the account again but they do still keep your personal data on file, forever. This includes your name, address, bank account and any credit/debit cards. I wasn’t aware of this and I personally don’t like this because I figure that if I close the account, all data would be permanently deleted. Guess not.
I have since then switched to using Google Checkout and WePay, I’ve had Google Checkout for a while actually and never had issues with it. There really isn’t any benefits to either Google Checkout or WePay because their fees are the exact same as PayPal. I will like to point out though that WePay allows you to enter a Credit Card number into the system through their web site or even iPhone App (very handy!). I have not placed a donate button on lmtv.us again and probably won’t. It was just a project and thought it’d be nice to get some type of money for all the hours I spent on it but whatever.
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