A few days ago an evilBay seller came up with a part I had asked him about
that was needed to refurbish an old French shifter. He put it in a package
with aother part I had bought and then sent a $3 money request through Paypal.
So far, everything was normal. Then I tried to make the transfer.
Paypal would not let me login, and if I tried to recover my password it
gave me an internal problem error message. That persisted for two days, during
which I was able to have a brief access only to find that they had no record of
any activity after July, which I knew was wrong. And there was no record of
the $3 request, even though they had sent me an incomprehensible email with no
hyperlinks.
After the problems continued this morning I gave them a call and was
talking with a young woman in Ireland. It took that poor kid about a half hour
with the assistance of two coworkers to undo the arbitrary lockout, and they
were not able to determine the reason for the lockout, or so she said. I have
an uncomfortable feeling that they were hacked and don't want it to be public
knowledge.
This is the second time this year that Paypal has arbitrarily locked out
my account, and the last time, back in June, it was so bad they had to cancel
the account outright and had me establish a new account online. Because of
that incident I have been using the credit card option on evilBay for domestic
purchases and Paypal only for international.
I am no longer comfortable using Paypal. I will instead use the credit
card option unless the seller only accepts Paypal. And I'm sending that seller
$3 in cash through the mail.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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