Paypal Problems

Paypal being the world's biggest online payment service is often come under the line of fire from its users due lack of support, its biased policies towards buyers and problems in communicating with paypal representatives (endless loop of automated mails whenever you email them).

Here is the list of Paypal Problems which people most of the time complaints and what you can do to avoid them.

1. Poor Support - Paypal is often gets accused of having very poor email support and that they keep on sending automated replies. If you are also tired of getting automated replies and want to solve the problems quickly, call Paypal rather than mailing them. You may have to spend some 15 minutes with IVRS but you should be able to solve it alot faster. The paypal contact number is +1-402-935-2050

2. Account Limited - Getting Paypal Account limited is another biggest problems which paypal users faces. Its been reported that paypal limits the account (can't send or withdraw money) very easily which can break your business in no time. If your Paypal Account ever gets limited, immediately call Paypal rather than mailing them. You will also have to send them identity proof as well as address proof and most often than not, you account will get to nrmal status as long as you are not violating their guidelines, in that case, the chances are, you can lose all your money.

3. Account Blocked for No fault of yours - Getting Paypal Account blocked is just like limited. Paypal can block the account if they find the account to be accessed from different country (say)

4. Not supporting your Country - Though Paypal supports most of the biggest countries, they still do not support a handful of countries which often causes anger (lot of eastern European and middle east countries are not included in paypal supported list of countries)

5. Fraud on Paypal - Paypal being an online service, is often prone to online frauds. Though paypal only being an online money transferring service, it can be said its not their fault but people often accuses paypal of taking no action. Paypal does not take any kind of action against non tangible goods i.e. buying/selling online websites or domains or ebooks, so if a person pays you, you sell him your product, he can file for a chargeback saying he didn't received the product and since you can never show any proof that you did, paypal will give the money back to the buyer.

If this is the case with you and you are a seller, may be its better to first talk to the buyer on phone (dishonest buyers will probably not be so keen on talking) or it may better for you to use escrow.com kind of service.