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PayPal told customer her death breached its rules

188 点作者 adzicg将近 7 年前

8 条评论

astura将近 7 年前
Title is borderline a little clickbaity. There&#x27;s not a ton of information but from what I gather it seems like the following happened:<p>She had a PayPal credit card or some other form of revolving account with PayPal (the letter references to &quot;PayPal Credit&quot; agreement) with a balance of just over £3,000.<p>Dead people can&#x27;t legally hold credit cards so she &quot;breached&quot; her credit card agreement by dying - that is, an action on her part made the agreement no longer valid. This caused PayPal to close the revolving credit line and the balance to be due in full.<p>As I understand it her estate would be legally required to pay the balance if it had the funds to do so. (99.9% sure - correct me if I&#x27;m wrong)<p>The letter was sent informing her of the above.<p>So seems like the letter was &quot;technically correct&quot; (the best kind of correct!) but horribly insensitive to the point of basically being straight up cruel. The other mistake is it should have been addressed to the executor of her estate instead of her personally.<p>EDIT: Here&#x27;s the UK version of &quot;PayPal Credit&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paypal.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;webapps&#x2F;mpp&#x2F;paypal-virtual-credit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paypal.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;webapps&#x2F;mpp&#x2F;paypal-virtual-credit</a> Looks like it&#x27;s a revolving account without a physical card.
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lainga将近 7 年前
What does section 15.4(c) of the Paypal Credit agreement say?
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parliament32将近 7 年前
Although it&#x27;s insensitive, it makes sense from a legal perspective. IANAL, but I imagine it&#x27;s something like:<p>1. paypal receives notice she&#x27;s deceased, so they have to collect the remaining balance<p>2. the creditor must notify the client (hence the letter being addressed to her) of their account being closed, and that the full amount is due<p>3. the creditor must specify a reason for terminating the account, hence the &quot;see section X of the agreement that says you have to be alive to hold an account&quot;, &quot;...you are deceased&quot;
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hayksaakian将近 7 年前
My best guess is this is a &quot;cover our asses&quot; (literally) template not intended to be read by the recipient.<p>Maybe their target reader is people who fake their deaths?
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walrus01将近 7 年前
This email would not have been totally abnormal from a legal perspective, if the first person references and grammar were changed to third person, and it was addressed to an estate executor rather than directly to the deceased. Credit card companies and similar will do the same.
DeepYogurt将近 7 年前
I bet the customer didn&#x27;t mind.
walrus01将近 7 年前
In the United States private debt collectors will attempt to get bereaved family members of a recently dead person to begin payment on the deceased person&#x27;s debt, with social engineering tactics.<p>When the appropriate legal response is: &quot;NAME is deceased, here is the contact info the for executor of the estate&quot;.
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psycombi将近 7 年前
I always see Paypal&#x27;s negative stories on Ycombinator and only positive stories of Square &amp; Stripe. Let&#x27;s not be an unnecessary devil&#x27;s advocate or a cheerleader!
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