PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account 443
rysiek writes "Remember MailPile, the privacy-focused, community-funded FOSS webmail project with built-in GPG support? The good news is, the funding campaign is a success, with $135k raised (the goal was $100k). The bad news is: PayPal froze MailPile's account, along with $45k that was on it, and will not un-freeze it until MailPile team provides 'an itemized budget and your development goal dates for your project.' One of the team members also noted: 'Communications with PayPal have implied that they would use any excuse available to them to delay delivering as much of our cash as possible for as long as possible.' PayPal doesn't have a great track record as far as fund freezing is concerned — maybe it's high time to stop using PayPal?"
Who do people still use PayPal high value accounts (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't get it.
I hear stories like this all the time.
Why do people insist on using PayPal for high value accounts?
Re:"Maybe?" (Score:3, Interesting)
It stinks of the government and/or IRS abuse. Forget boycotting business for its behaviour [read: complicity]. Isn't it time we start boycotting government a bit?
Re:Who leaves money in a paypal account. (Score:5, Interesting)
I used PayPal once or twice when they first started up, but it very quickly became evident that they were on the fast track to becoming complete dicks.
Since then, if a merchant doesn't provide an alternative to PaylPal, I find an alternative source for whatever it is that I want to buy. If there is no such alternative, then I suddenly discover that don't want the item as badly as all that. End of story.