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Seems more like they're trying to get abandoned accounts down to $0 in their wallets so they can cancel all the abandoned accounts wasting space on their server
by ThisIsMeEEE 6y ago
Seems more like they're trying to get abandoned accounts down to $0 in their wallets so they can cancel all the abandoned accounts wasting space on their server than actually trying to charge people a fee for something.
- sneak 6y agoThis isn't about "wasting space on their server", it's about confiscating money left in those accounts. It's illegal for them to just take it, because it's not theirs.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIs it illegal? I’m 100% certain their TOS say they can change them at any time for any reason. Not to mention that almost every bank has fees too. Overdraft fees are charging you because you didn’t have money!
- sneak 6y agoIt's illegal for them to take it arbitrarily as abandoned; they can institute a new fee system to take it when they could otherwise not.
- colejohnson66 6y agoWhich is exactly what they did. It’s right in the title actually: “PayPal introduces new fee...”
- justinclift 6y agoYes, that's what the parent poster was pointing out. ;)
- colejohnson66 6y agoI was pointing out that it’s not illegal because they’re allowed to do it. Then OP said (again) that it is illegal unless it’s a fee (not an all-at-once thing), which it is
- bserge 6y agoKind of a moot point when they can simply suspend your account for months for undisclosed reasons. People literally just give up on their PP accounts, because it's not worth your sanity (dealing with Paypal's "customer service") for something like $100 left in the account.
- drusepth 6y agoThe last 5 or 6 transactions I made on my old PayPal account each resulted in freezes of my account that required a ton of hoops to unfreeze (uploading pics of my passport, proving address with bills, etc). I eventually abandoned the account and just created another, which is what I use with no problems now, but have no idea what the balance in the old one might be since I ended things abruptly in unlock-my-account-please-for-the-love-of-god Support Hell.