Introduction
My Paypal accounts are falling like dominoes. I had been using my wife’s account for the past few months since it’s the most tenured account. The account is tied to her phone number, which I don’t have access to while I’m at work. I had been making some fairly large purchases on the account recently, and it seemed every order required me to verify the account by text or phone call. I never know when they want to verify; sometimes it goes through fine, sometimes it wants to verify (kinda like PPDG.) I had been closing out the security checks and just waiting until I got home to make the purchase. Well, on Friday, I had closed out of the security check and sure enough, minutes later, BOOM! PERMANENTLY LIMITED!
Lessons Learned
I had talked to another reader who had a similar story. If you close those login verification, it puts a flag on your account. Do too many of those and BOOM! You’re done. I had considered changing the phone number on her account, but I thought that would raise a flag, so I didn’t do it. I would have done it if I had known this would happen if I don’t verify the logins. The main lesson learned is – ALWAYS VERIFY YOUR PAYPAL LOGINS.
I am very careful with PP because my PPEMC credit card is tied to it and there’s no way of getting around that. It’s been an easy $400 cb (48000 pts with 50K cap per calendar year) for years now and if only for that, it’s worth keeping my PP.
What is a good alternative to PP thou?
You can try direct pay over Ebay, but it’ll eventually throttle you and you’re SOL.
Good thing I changed my wife’s paypal phone number to my google voice, so I can verify when I need it.
Great warning Vinh, I have closed out of a few when I haven’t felt like going through it… “I’ll just try again later”. Thanks for the idea Ted.
Yeah that’s what I should have done. Oh well.
The main lesson is to stop using fucking paypal.
Easier said than done if you want to use Ebay.
Damn Vinh – is there anyway you could do an article summing up every ban you have had…that would be an interesting read 🙂
I don’t think there is enough broadband width on the internet for such a lengthy article.
haha Vinh could break the internet with that one!!!
Good idea Mark. I’ll try to write a summary post.