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I'm going to echo the sentiment about PayPal: they are notorious for freezing accounts and never releasing funds. They've even done this to people trying to raise funds to help natural disaster victims.

It might help to have multiple popular avenues for donation.

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Paypal has stolen hundreds of dollars for me, with no option for recourse.

The only thing worse than them taking my money was talking to the ignorant assholes on the phone about it.

Wow, you got an actual person on the phone? You got further than me when I tried to get back the $200 they stole from me due to "suspicious activity". I gave up trying to collect it after spending a bunch of time on it.

They did eventually return it, more than a year later, with no explanation. Just suddenly my account balance increased. No interest payments for the time it was stolen though.

Why not take them to small claims court?

Yeah. We can still talking about paypal policy, instead of topic.

Huh. Similar story, about the same amount of money.

They claimed suspicious activity, when it was in fact a client trying to pay me. Go figure.

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