Paypal Robbery

[pcgeekri]

Remember PayPal is Ebay.  I have a claim at my bank outstanding at this time due to debits from PayPal. 

Here is some advice from my bank:

When one closes an account with Ebay/PayPal only the username/password is terminated all bank information, credit card numbers, checking account numbers are retained by Ebay/Paypal UNLESS you have it in writing from Ebay/PayPal that when your membership is closed all bank information will be deleted.  Any information given to Ebay/PayPal should be changed after closing your membership. 
Bottom Line:  Open a specific bank account especially for use on Ebay/PayPal and close said account when membership with Ebay/PayPal is terminated.

Hope this helps someone in the future. 

Later,

Pcgeekri

[BlueSoup]

Pescado, I'll send you a list of the donators this afternoon so you can work out their titles.

Any money that was left over, by the way, is going towards booty.

[maxon]

Does that mean I can still make a donation and be a Baronette?  Or do you want me to go over to PMBD and be fleeced without any kind of reward?

[BlueSoup]

No, don't make any other donations for the server.  That's over now.  People are always free to send me money for booty (rather than donating directly so there's no unnecessary overlap), but at this moment we have enough for the next several months so it's unnecessary.

[Craigsters]

Did the allvirgalissuck  account we donated to have problem's as well with paypal? are those funds frozen?

[BlueSoup]

No, those funds are fine.  And all gone too, they went towards the new server.

[Chienne]

So where do we make a new payment to?

Same question here

Here, too!

[BlueSoup]

New donations are not needed - the server is covered for the next year.  I don't think that Pescado has a place to put new donations to, considering he doesn't want my help in the future. 

[KatEnigma]

Today is the first day I've been able to get to the site since the 14th.  Paypal is a PITA, but I'm glad we got the new server, regardless, since my ability to connect has been spotty for a month, it just had never gone away for a week straight.

Now it's just a matter of waiting a couple more days for the claim to go through. I'm glad the hordes were cooperative about donating toward the cause, even if Paypal wasn't cooperating.

[speedreader]

I'm sorry I didn't know about the donations until now.  I don't spend a lot of time at MATY, but depend heavily on its existence.  I tend to open the site and search for whatever issue I am having and then leave with my answer.  I don't know if I could play Sims without the hacks/mods found here!  Since I don't have Pets, I'm kind of out of touch.

I suppose there are others who wouldn't like this idea, but could an email be sent to members when you are looking for donations?  Maybe start a thread and then subscribe everyone?  I would certainly have supported MATY, but didn't know about the need. 

Just a thought, and maybe a lousy one.

[lefty]

I've been to many different sites over the years that used paypal for donations, and almost 70% of them had paypal lock down their accounts (with donations still pending) for either no reason or completely bogus ones. As the others did, finding an alternative is your best bet. They never did see a penny of what was withheld from them, which is also why I stopped using paypal a long while ago.

[miros]

Yeah, I know one site/egroup whose account was closed down for "selling adult materials" because they had nude Sim skins on the site.  They actually did get their account "reopened" so they could withdraw funds, but there was only 75c in there at the time!

[BlueSoup]

I'm sorry I didn't know about the donations until now.  I don't spend a lot of time at MATY, but depend heavily on its existence.  I tend to open the site and search for whatever issue I am having and then leave with my answer.  I don't know if I could play Sims without the hacks/mods found here!  Since I don't have Pets, I'm kind of out of touch.

I suppose there are others who wouldn't like this idea, but could an email be sent to members when you are looking for donations?  Maybe start a thread and then subscribe everyone?  I would certainly have supported MATY, but didn't know about the need. 

Just a thought, and maybe a lousy one.

At MATY, you're not required to enter a real email address.