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WillyDmz
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WillyDmz
16y ago
Thanks, but I would prefer to remain a bit anonymous until I can get this sorted out. My goal with this thread is to try and get some connection to somebody at PayPal that can help me. There was nothing obscene on the site, and in our FAQ,
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WillyDmz
16y ago
Hey, cool site. I'd prefer to remain a bit anonymous until I can sort this out though. Thanks.
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WillyDmz
16y ago
My guess, as mentioned, is that some phrase on the site triggered some automated process that locked the account. Is it related to orientation or do just the words "phone sex" trigger something? I have no idea how PayPal works internally.
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WillyDmz
16y ago
I spoke with somebody on the phone, and they viewed the site and agreed that it wasn't pornographic, but their decision is final and can't be overturned. I asked to speak to a manager. They said a manager would get back to me, but no respon
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PayPal is no GayPal: another PayPal horror story
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WillyDmz
16y ago
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WillyDmz
16y ago
It's inconvenient (not to mention a resource hog) to have another browser open most of the time. I use Chrome for development. Then I confirm that everything is similar in Firefox, which it usually is. Then I fix IE's numerous errors in eve
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WillyDmz
16y ago
Well, to expand on that, a lot of people don't just use the shopping cart, but all of the combined stuff like payment processing, the CMS for adding in products, user accounts, built-in APIs and many other features. I was involved with an e
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WillyDmz
16y ago
Regardless of what the law says, governments can and do take whatever they want, so that shouldn't dissuade anybody from making software free.
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16y ago
You can definitely write your own shopping cart if you want, its just that its a problem that so many businesses have solved before so you'd likely just be wasting time reinventing the wheel when you could be building up other aspects of yo