Ahh... mother of ass... So two weeks ago I get this great email from PayPal saying my account is limited. AKA, can't receive, withdraw, or send money. To fix it, I have to jump through all these hurdles... Verify my soc sec number, billing address, credit check address, bank account. Then, I also have to do stuff like Provide Business Information and Verify Shipping - which I can't do. Not that I can't, but it's impossible. I'm not a business and I never had anything shipped via Paypal, so there are no invoices or anything. What in the hell... - - - Also, I love PayPal's customer service (via email). You could write to them saying you were on fire and about to die, they'd email you back in a day with an automated response about how to sign up for a Paypal account or something else TOTALLY unrelated to what you emailed them about in the first place. This happen to anyone else, and if so, what'd you do? I have all my steps done, except for this Business and Shipping tasks...
lol, I don't think so... Not only is it against their terms of service, but it'd be rather a bitch to do...
Unfortunately no one here really cares about your misfortune with PayPal as any legit & frequent user of PayPal went through the same process and your audacity towards "it being impossible" provokes only a hostile atmosphere to those who have Anyways, You have to submit the information or else they won't give you your account back. There is no getting around it, I have already tried
No, see, I don't care if you care... I'm asking how others got by it and if it has ever happened to you guys. And yes, it IS impossible. I never said I was a business when signing up, and am a legit user. So why PayPal wants me to provide "Business Information" is beyond me.
I got that same problem. I can't provide them the documents they're asking. I moved to a new city and living in an apartment. My billing address is addressed to my landlord and my ID address to my old home in a different city. I'm okay of deleting and opening a new account. My problem is my card being disabled by paypal. I don't know if I can still use it to very my a new account. I afraid paypal would just disable it again.
When your account is verified you can't delete it, you can open a new account and then put correct information and get verified. The address verification is not a problem, even the address is registered in your landlord's name you can still request address verification in the same address.
Credit card info, Social Security Numbers, Bank accounts, etc are linked from one account and will come up with errors if tried to use in a different account. I had my old business account under my name totally limited/closed by Pay Pal because of a link I had on my site. Nothing illegal, the link however went to a site that was against their TOS to sell the products it did. I however was not selling those products, nor was I using Pay Pal to sell those products. Pay Pal did not care, even though it did not state you could not link to a site anywhere in their terms, they still killed the account. Anyways I opened up a new business account under my business corporate name. Every time I have entered info that was apart of that old account it's refused, reason being it's from another account 'forget the exact error' They do track this info, it automatically is cross referenced in their system. The only reason I was ok for opening a new account is because this one is under a corporate name and not my name, I also got clearance from their legal department. Best I can suggest is to continue calling, complain, demand to speak to a supervisor. Pay Pal is EXTREMELY difficult to deal with, sometimes there is simply no winning with them. Most companies I can get my way with enough calling/complaining/demanding. Pay Pal on the other hand, even when you are totally right, in many cases simply does not care.