⚠️ Small business owners / PayPal users — has anything like this ever happened to you?
⚠️ Small business owners / PayPal users — has anything like this ever happened to you? I’m genuinely curious because we just had a pretty shocking experience with PayPal. Our small business, UnityREEL, has used PayPal for legitimate business transactions related to our photography and cinematography work. Recently, without any warning that we were aware of, PayPal permanently restricted our business account after what they described as an internal “risk assessment.” The original notice simply told us they found “unusual activity” they could no longer support. Naturally, I contacted PayPal because I wanted to know: What unusual activity? What did we do? Was there a transaction we needed to explain? Was our account compromised? After a lengthy conversation with their Account Limitations team, they told me they could not disclose the transactions, activity, indicators, or internal criteria that led to the decision. They also told me the decision was final and could no longer be ap...
