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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by derision on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:11PM (#24457615)
How do you think a review process works? It's not instant. When you try to process the payment, the OFAC check fails, and it's flagged for manual review. Only option is to show the user an error
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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by neotek on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:09AM (#24460613)
As a retailer who has been stung by this bullshit with PayPal many times in the past, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the payment doesn't go through ever, at all.

It isn't flagged and reviewed, it's just outright rejected with a cryptic error message indicating that someone, somewhere breached PayPal's terms of service. No money leaves the customer's account, no money arrives in the vendor's account; the process simply fails.

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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by ponker on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:04AM (#24459272)
What is “manual review” here? The reviewer doesn’t have the ability to send the transaction through. It went to the circular file.
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