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I had a similar experience with eBay. In my case, they suspended my account for no reason and refused to delete my bank account information. They are literally holding my banking details against my will. I might actually call the police on them because its so shady - and we are in the same county.

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I had a similar experience with PayPal. Fortunately, I had created a separate bank account specifically for use with PayPal. After they blocked my account (for the heinous crime of having the word "Hacker" in my company name: Hacker Factor), I went to the bank and closed that account. PayPal ended up keeping the remaining balance of something like $1.

In my case a guy won an auction, bid (but did not pay) 30% over buying it brand new, and all of his reviews said "don't ship to this guy, he's a scammer". So I refused to ship, and they closed my account for it.

If you're in the EU, you might be able to do something about this using GDPR.

I'm in the United States and this still feels illegal. My bank suggested calling the police.

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