Hello everyone, I guess everyone out here who is running a paypal account must have faced issues with it at least once. Call it whatever, but everyone knows how strict paypal is with their rules. The moment they see anything fishy, they won't hesitate in 'limiting' your account. Here's my story: I've been running my paypal account since last 5 years. The first two years, everything was going well as the transactions weren't that big and were less in number. Issues started to occur when I starting taking freelance content writing seriously (and accepting payments through paypal). I once cracked a major deal of $200 (big enough for a part-time freelancer). The client had ordered 50+ articles and I started working on them, without having any clue that the client has something else in mind. I finished the assignment and sent him the lot. All of a sudden, he stopped replying to my mails after that. 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks passed. That's when I decided to do something about it. I reported this case to Cyber Crime Investigation and sent him the mail that I got from them with the complaint number. The trick worked. He replied. He agreed to pay $180 through paypal then, which he paid.However, it was just a matter of a day when he took a U-turn again and said that he does not need these articles now, so I can use these elsewhere and he wants a refund. It was but obvious that it was next to impossible finding another client who would want 50+ articles on 1 niche. I told him these are of no use to me as such. He didn't waste any time and launched a complaint with paypal saying that he had paid me this amount for articles, which I never sent to him. (Yeah, people with such low moral values also exist). paypal asked me to submit proofs of the same, which I did. But the judgement was ruled in his favor (yes, paypal favors the person who complains). I had already withdrawn $180 that I had received, to my bank account, and because of this my account balance went in negative. I took this lightly and without any second thoughts created another paypal account. All went fine for 1 month. It was after a month when paypal detected my second account and freezed it, with $100 balance in it. I had to call them repeatedly to know how I can resolve this issue. They asked me to submit a few documents and pay the negative amount in the first account. I live in India and since the paypal office is located in the United States, it took me almost 2 months to get all this done. All this while, I couldn't carry out my freelancing tasks and had no money in my bank account. I had to get the documents scanned, arrange the funds, get them converted from INR to USD, prepare a cheque of the same and courier them all this. Thankfully, my efforts paid off and after a long wait my account was restored. Since then, I'm being extra careful with my clients and my transactions and all's going fine. The reason I'm posting this is because I know there would be many out there who must have faced similar problems or could related to it, and so that other users could keep these things in mind and be careful to avoid facing any such issue in future. Hope this was helpful.
PayPal's services are slow then express money. PayPal delays money transfer and one big problem is that it hes no branch in Pakistan.
Western Union is best choice, but it not always possible to use Western Union. Anyone already use escrow before ? Is there any charges ?
Ouch, nasty moment. The issue was you created a second account. If you're asked for a refund and have to pay it (the client won the 'ruling'), just pay the dang thing. Breaking their rules won't solve the issues. I'd advise you to work mainly via freelancing sites, since there the client has less chances of messing up with you like this. Anyway ... let's hope it's one client only and you'll never deal with such people again. Glad the account works for you now, I'd be dead without my PP account