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Chan790

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3. There are hundreds of these stories that provide a good reason.
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 05:20 PM
Feb 2012

In addition to the Wikileaks thing.

They froze some guy's account over Christmas because he was fundraising to buy toys for disadvantaged children (even after he offered to donate the money directly to Toys for Tots) and made him return the finds minus their commission that they took in both directions (receipt of funds and the paying-out of the funds.)

They did the same thing during Hurricane Katrina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Awful#Hurricane_Katrina_charity) to donations being collected by posters at Something Awful.

I'm shocked they didn't go hissy-fit over the hearts here with the donations to PP actually.

That's just the high-profile ones. Paypal's good for this kind of crap on a near-monthly basis, it just usually involves them screwing the common person and doesn't make news.

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