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I'd more specifically qualify that as: "Don't ever use PayPal to process a large & sudden volume of orders for a product" -- which, granted, can be hard to anti

I'd more specifically qualify that as: "Don't ever use PayPal to process a large & sudden volume of orders for a product" -- which, granted, can be hard to anticipate. It seems like this is a guaranteed way to trigger their fraud detection, getting your account frozen. This is anecdotally a bear to fix. I believe the GP2X guys got burned by this at one point. Also, doesn't PayPal frown on taking preorders in their ToS?

Negitivefrags 14y ago
When we launched our product we got ~100,000 in the first 24 hours and we didn't have our account locked, so it isn't guaranteed. After 48 hours the did put a 25,000 reserve on the account plus 10% of future transactions for 90 days though, which is annoying.