{"id":9673,"date":"2018-08-29T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2018-08-29T23:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:34:48","slug":"dont-paypal-me-they-cut-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/08\/29\/dont-paypal-me-they-cut-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t PayPal me \u2014 they cut me off!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t try to PayPal anything to dgerard@gmail.com\u00a0\u2014 it’ll bounce!<\/p>\n

Someone tried to send me USD$1500. PayPal went into anaphylactic KYC meltdown and demanded more documents, I sent them and … they switched off my account. Evidently I’m going to deal drugs, or cryptos, or something:<\/p>\n

After reviewing your PayPal<\/span> account, we’ve determined there to be excessive risk involved in doing business with you and we’d like to begin parting ways in a manner that is least disruptive to your business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(And it was a business account, too. Here I am, a hardworking and enthusiastic part of the System, a credit rating, live in the suburbs, etc …)<\/p>\n

I didn’t turn into a Bitcoiner\u00a0\u2014 but as far as I can tell, the American banking system is the sort of thing that makes people invent Bitcoin. European banking works so well …<\/p>\n

So much for the one easy way to get US dollars to the UK. For large payments, I can eat the fees \u2014 but PayPal was the best way to get a few USD for a book or whatever. Suggestions welcomed.<\/p>\n

If you really want to send money, contact me and we’ll sort out a bank thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t try to PayPal anything to dgerard@gmail.com – it’ll bounce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-paypal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}