PayPal's Donation Tools Stiff Some Charities, New Class Action Lawsuit Alleges

Charitable donations made through PayPal's Giving Fund platform may never reach their intended recipients, a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in Chicago has alleged. From a report on CNBC: When charitable accounts are not set up correctly, PayPal continues to accept donations on their behalf, the suit alleges. Instead of notifying donors and nonprofits of the error, PayPal takes the money after six months and redirects it to another charity "without regard to the intention, beliefs, or desires of the donor," the lawsuit claims. The class action status of the suit still needs to be certified by a judge.

Re: eBay

[hackwrench]

eBay and PayPal have been separate companies again for quite awhile now.

I'm shocked, I tell you!

[jenningsthecat]

PayPal is evil? Who knew?

Nothing new

[Anonymous Coward]

PayPal has been robbing people and charities since it's existed.

The dark side

[phantomfive]

Paypal is the dark side of Elon Musk.

Paypal is not a bank and we don't have to follow t

[Joe_Dragon]

Paypal is not a bank and we don't have to follow the bank rules!

Not quite true...

[Anonymous Coward]

It is a Luxembourg-based bank in Europe.

Oh please

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Paypal has been ripping people since they day they opened their doors. This is just one more method they're dreamed up to fuck people over.

PayPal.... New Class Action Lawsuit.....

[colin_faber]

TL;DR: Paypal does shitty things, screws customers, people get mad and sue. Let's talk about Comcast next.

Fraudulent Tax Returns?

[ahenryop]

I wonder how many people reported false charitable donations because they thought they were giving directly to the organization, rather than to the PayPal 501c.