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PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services

20 pointsby fraqedover 9 years ago

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bobby_9xover 9 years ago
&quot;PayPal informs the affected business(es) that their accounts have been permanently limited and that this decision can’t be appealed.&quot;<p>This is the scary thing about some of the services that we rely on: they can ban you for no reason and there is no appeal.<p>Amazon does this too. I had $10,000 in sales when they banned my account 5 years ago. No appeals, automatic replies, and no phone number or support line.<p>I was making Amazon thousands of dollars&#x2F;month in marketplace fees and they perma-banned me and destroyed my business in an instant.<p>Before this happened, I noticed that Amazon was using my sales analytics to compete and undercut any of my most profitable products.<p>I never found out why I was banned. I had 100% feedback, fulfilled all returns quickly, and always answered customer questions.<p>The basic customer support I was able to contact told me that my banning was proprietary in nature and they couldn&#x27;t disclose any information about it and that any future messages related to this banning would be ignored&#x2F;trashed.<p>My money was held for 120 days. This should be illegal.
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zerotoleranceover 9 years ago
Run your own VPN in your favorite cloud provider. This is an &quot;oldie but goodie&quot; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;envyandroid.com&#x2F;setup-free-private-vpn-on-amazon-ec2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;envyandroid.com&#x2F;setup-free-private-vpn-on-amazon-ec2&#x2F;</a>