Continued from Part 2

Thank you for staying with me it gets better. Please read on as this is the message I received from PayPal on the 14th May 2007. (and they say that this is not linked to the closure of my eBay account).

Actual Message from PayPal:

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. During a recent screening, we noticed an issue regarding your account.

We have received complaints from at least one buyer who indicated that either they purchased merchandise from you and never received it, or that an item they received was significantly not as described.

Reference Number: PP-284-***-204

For your protection, we have temporarily limited access to your account. We will review this access once you have completed all the steps we have requested. You can view these steps in the Resolution Centre of your PayPal account.

To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Centre. If, after reviewing your account information, you seek
further clarification regarding your account access, please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Centre and clicking ‘Contact Us’.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologise again for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department

 

So not only can I not sell on eBay anymore they have restricted my account which means I can’t accept any PayPal payments from my other Internet activities. But this time I am given a phone number to contact customer services at PayPal which turns out to be some nice people in Ireland, they inform me that my account was picked at random and that this was a routine check, they also acknowledged that there are no outstanding disputes, but they still need me to authenticate my account and that the above message was an automated letter that goes out. Anyway I had to confirm my Identity, provide them with invoices to clarify where I was getting my payments from and why people where now paying me single payments in excess of £250.00 that’s about $500.00 per transaction. I had to fax copies of my invoices and confirm what I was selling who my suppliers where etc.