Wow. Yeah good luck.
I try to avoid Paypal international. One guy last week in Cali paid OK, no problem, and I got my full funds, but someone before had paid HIM in AUS bux. So when he paid me, I SEE the AUS $ being converted. I'm thinking they are gonna charge my arse the exchange fee. WTH?? But they didn't. Just seemed odd that I saw that.
I ultimately got my PayPay account shut down/deleted (probably permanently blacklisted) shortly after my sale of an iPad 2 to someone overseas. It was either Europe or New Zealand. I forget.
Somehow, they wanted to treat my (I had PayPal for 7 or 8 years. Maybe 11) PayPal account as a Business account. I was "retronrex" as an EBay seller and on PayPal I was able to receive payments for items sold. I had at least 277 transactions, had some color star, and was doing well.
They asked me for many many documents.. and, eventually, just deleted my whole account and same with retronrex. Remember that EBay bought PayPal or I may have that reversed, I don't know.
I had a similar thing with some kind of overseas (UK again) financial scam where I eventually got $400 refunded. Took awhile but.. just, never again.
For over $1 doesn't surprise me.. sometimes, if you use the site that will sell you a fake Rolex for a little more than $200, your card may act funny or ask you to approve the transaction when it goes through the currency exchange rate.
I'm pretty much done with PayPal for anything.
@Pablo But I wasn't a business, I just used them a lot.. something about that particular transaction made them turn on me. They had like 5 categories of things they asked me for, again, as if I was a business.. I was able to provide "One or two" but ultimately they just shut down my account.
Something about that particular
international sale made them change towards me, idk what happened. I still have old letters with my actual PayPal account number somehow (Delaware or Maryland business address they have, I think) but.. it's some kind of one of two Blacklist they have. One is supposedly a "soft" one where you can use them again.. the other one, it's like they just put you on some kind of list where literally the rest of your life, you can't use them.
I've had to use family member's accounts and for the past year or two at least I haven't used them at all.. just paid debit or credit card directly, now that EBay gives you that option. If I ever actually open up a business etc.. maybe I will look at Square. CashApp isn't really "business-like."
