About 3 or 4 years ago PayPal added the option to buy cryptocurrency, which I thought I’d try. (Dumb idea 🙄)
Part of the sign up process was glitched. I retried and clicked submit one too many times, I guess. Now I’ve been unable to use PayPal for years. They blocked me because THEIR SITE was broken, but the web page essentially accuses me of being a criminal and asks for my bank records. No way in hell.
This was just for me to pay others. I can only imagine how awful PayPal is if you are a vendor.
Fuck PayPal.
Did you try giving them the data they want? They ask for bank records to see if the account belongs to you, you can black most stuff. From my knowledge they take this info at sign up nowadays.
If not maybe write a support ticket, their support is usually very friendly and helpful regarding such things.
I haven’t. Maybe someday I’ll be willing to, but not today. It’s a hassle and extremely intrusive to provide my bank statement and photo ID to a company whose security I don’t trust.
Yes its giving them a few things you wouldn’t give anyone else, you can btw also black out many things not necessary on your ID, they are also not storing the data for longer than necessary for the verification, at least in EU idk how they do it outside.
But tbh, i trust them regarding these things, not deeply but enough to give it to them within the given lines.
I think they might even be required to do this due to money laundering and bank safety regulations. But I’m not entirely shure about it. I just had my account locked once i transferred 10k€ to someone else (the transaction was locked for some time as well as the receivers account) i had a talk to their support obviously and they said they need to do some stuff due to these regulations (in my case money laundering laws)
If you don’t trust their security why would you even want to use them and trust them with your money?
Paying anything bought through PayPal credit. Wow.
I got banned from the Kraken crypto exchange after waiting a year for them to approve me and after providing all my IRL credentials.
Told me I was banned, never to come back, and that they were going to report my fraud attempt to the authorities. Of course they refused to tell me what they thought I did, which didn’t make any sense because all I had been able to do was make an account and make a verification request.
Never really even looked at crypto again beyond mining dogecoin for fun.
Same, cant use half of online services because I can’t have PayPal (and don’t want a credit card for security concerns)
Yeah, maybe a good idea to look into stuff like this. Do you know privacy friendly ones (who don’t sell or record your purchase history)?
I don’t really know any. I have a prepaid VISA with my bank. Had some fuckery happen to some of my accounts where I had my regular visa debit saved as payment method and I lost about 20€. I got them back but disabled the option for online payment for the card.
So now I only use that prepaid with the exact amount of money needed to pay for what I am buying.
I cannot really suggest any such cards that are separate services because I do not know any. Maybe look into if your bank has the option to get one.
