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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by citricsquid on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:49AM (#1982897)
oh please don't bring the Notch stuff into this. FYI they were entirely justified with what they did. I administrate the Minecraft forums, there were (and still are) many legitimate complaints from people who paid for the game but never got access because minecraft.net is very poorly built[1]. When his account received millions of dollars in a tiny period of time with numerous complaints do you really think any legitimate company would just give him the money?

What they did in his situation was entirely justified and I'd personally suggest it was exactly what they should have done. I'm sure there are many times when Paypal have done wrong, but this really isn't one of them.

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=91042

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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by ZoFreX on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @09:12AM (#1982958)
Also: Everyone talks about them "freezing" his account or stealing his money, when they did no such thing. They're simply requiring him to keep a float in his Paypal account to cover chargebacks, and due to the amount of transactions he gets, that float has to be an unusually large amount.
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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by Dylan16807 on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @10:23AM (#1983170)
They're requiring that now. At the time, they froze the account, allowing money in but no withdrawals.
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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by storborg on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @02:57PM (#1984367)
At a point in time when it was unclear to Paypal whether or not all of the money was fraudulently obtained and was going to be charged back, that action seems perfectly reasonable.
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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by misterm on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:14PM (#1984645)
I still don't have access. I emailed someone, got no response, so I gave up on it.
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Re:PayPal: "State Department Said It Was Illegal" by citricsquid on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:13PM (#1985119)
hey :-) Send an email to Daniel ([email protected]) and he should sort you out. If not send me an email ([email protected]) and when he's next online I'll poke him into helping you out.
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