Heads Up on accepting PayPal for social media services

Social Media Marketing
#32

I’m banned, all 300 of my paypal accounts #dissapeared

#33

I just got an email from Stripe doing the same thing. They gave me 14 days though.

Thanks for using Stripe.

While we hate to give you anything less than a great experience, it does seem that your business is in violation of the Stripe Services Agreement, section A.7.b (“Prohibited Businesses and Activities”). Specifically, we are unable to accept payments for social media activity as mentioned here: https://stripe.com/prohibited-businesses.

These regulations are firm, so we sadly have no flexibility with them. That said, we understand that there may be some work involved with moving your business away from Stripe, and we’re happy to help out with this process by giving you 14 days to switch to a new provider. After that, you and your connected accounts won’t be able to accept additional charges, but we will continue sending payouts to your bank account until you receive all of your funds[1].

If you need an alternative payment processor, we recommend considering PaymentCloud, which works with businesses with a higher level of risk than we’re able to support: https://paymentcloudinc.com/stripe.

We’re very sorry that we have to turn away your business, and we wish you the best of luck moving forward.

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#34

Damn. What were you selling exactly? I see they label social activity as: “Sale of Twitter followers, Facebook likes, YouTube views, and other forms of social media activity.”

#35

Instagram Likes. Packages only included up to 150 likes. Not even that many… haha. Oh boy.

#36

So this is real?

Eventually all Smm sellers will get banned?

#37

Our account was permanently limited last Monday. We are getting a lot of orders but receiving around 3-4 disputes every week. Please help. I need to continue working on the site. Whats the best alternative?

Looking for Paypal Alternative
#38

work on the disputes?? 3 a 4 a week???

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#39

for disputes we receive, we either fix it, or if no chance of fixing, we refund the payment.

Please help. Any alternatives to paypal

#40

You need help about the disputes. Every payment provider will limit you at the end if you are a risk for them.

#41

I understand. But we used to fix the disputes. Some people just change mind immediately after they purchase thats why they file disuputes.

Paypal also holds 2000gbp worth of funds (they named it on-hold funds). Those funds are designed to be a protection so if any issues happen, 2000gbp will be there to solve it up. We usually get 400-800gbp worth of orders a day. disputes of just below 50gbp a day

#42

Well, this sucks.

For recurring invoices, I use Waveapps which is free and they accept credit card or ACH bank transfer as forms of payment. Paypal alternatives off the top of my head would be Payoneer, authorize.net, 2checkout.

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#43

are these options not that tough unlike paypal?

#44

There is an easy way around this and that i by using a invoice program like invoice ninja and don’t give your products obvious names like 150K IG followers, just call it the gold package

Your clients know what it is and you do and i just checked and the product name doesn’t even show up, doesn’t mean they know what it is, just change the freaking names and dont have 3/4/5 disputes per week and you will be just fine…

Pro tip always take out all your money from these services…

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#45

your conversion with clients will be way less if you dont use paypal.

important thing is( so you can just use another pp), why are they makjng a dispute??? i really have 0. if they want to stop after a day or two, they just ask. i refund, done. I never have disputes.

its all about what you say before you close them and its all about communication…

every payment provider will block you with that much disputes

#46

I am always hearing complaints about Paypal giving sellers problems: closing accounts, freezing funds, siding with customers 100% on disputes. I never heard anything good or bad about other payment gateways. Maybe because they don’t have enough publicity or user base? Or they are less strict? Not sure but they are worth checking out with the way Paypal is going.

#47

I am thinking she is selling fake followers and that is why she gets 3/4 disputes per week, wich is a huge red flag, i don’t think managers have anything to worry about.

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#48

actually we are reselling a service from other people. can anyone have a chat for me through skype?

#49

Same difference, you are selling a product that is already frowned upon, you probably don’t tell that they are fake and when people get no engagement, well… they fight back with disputes, the problem is not PayPal or you clients… (spoiler alert) It is your product.

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#50

Same difference, you are selling a product that is already frowned upon, you probably don’t tell that they are fake and when people get no engagement, well… they fight back with disputes, the problem is not PayPal or you clients… (spoiler alert) It is your product.

No, they are real. we used to provide service that basically came from advertising. Its just some people tend to refund after getting the service

#51

Yep, that + bad customer support. Your clients really need to feel helpless if they open a dispute instead of messaging you