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kevinsano

Paypal Termination

This happened recently. Check the post on tumblr for more info.

http://nsfw.kevinsano.com/post/131686482821/this-happe...
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Added: 8 years, 6 months ago
 
Zuboko
8 years, 6 months ago
I've said this before and I'll say it again:  whoever runs PayPal needs to lighten the fuck up. Go smoke some weed and chill or something. I still can't believe they're still trying to chop a large portion of their own revenue.
bluecoffeedog
8 years, 6 months ago
I guess everybody needs to move elsewhere.
Like Google Wallet or stripe X _ X

Sucks that this happened to you man
StarAmpharos
8 years, 6 months ago
How does stripe work?
I'm looking into it now, but haven't decided if its the one for me.
bluecoffeedog
8 years, 6 months ago
I'm more familiar with Google Wallet, but I know Stripe is a popular choice for people doing nsfw arts, it's accepted by Patreon.
PraeTheUnicorn
8 years, 6 months ago
Somebody forgot the zip it rule, don't tell paypal what you bought ever, if they ask it is art work or it is for an item delivered electronically, again if they ask it is a picture....a picture
Launny
8 years, 6 months ago
that happened to me last year..
macavity
8 years, 6 months ago
A few ways to be secure:
1: do not list your paypal email ever (especially on adult sites), have people send you their email and send them an invoice instead
2: use a generic name for your actual paypal email, like "business coveted limited solutions 2001" or whatever, not your username on sites
3: be a good guy and try to avoid annoying people (this can sometimes lead to them reporting you out of spite)

But yeah it sucks they can't just allow adult artworks permanently in their business-policy
peter10ns
8 years, 6 months ago
I don't understand PayPal's issue quite a few online Adult entertainment divisions use PayPal , that includes adult merchandise sold on eBay as well as various adult websites which I could spend all day listing all of which use PayPal and nobody usually cares exactly why did they bother you?
Infinityplus1
8 years, 6 months ago
Yeah. It's weird that they allow the sale of digital goods, and physical erotic products, but not digital erotic products.
peter10ns
8 years, 6 months ago
Actually, there were several websites that sell digital erotic material that use PayPal as one of the payment methods. Same with a lot of adult websites.
Infinityplus1
8 years, 6 months ago
You mean paysites?  
peter10ns
8 years, 6 months ago
a lot of adult pay sites use PayPal but so do a lot of people that sell digital artwork. I'm trying to remember that exact spelling of a distributor. I used to deal with that so-called artwork, comics, and so forth from different artists. One of the things they sold were CDs of different artists work. And one of their payment options was PayPal. There are hundreds if not thousands of adult entertainment venues that use PayPal on the Internet, so I'm surprised they have the nerve to single out one particular person. By the way, there is a loophole. At one point I created a handful of different PayPal accounts. I'm not hundred percent sure if it can still be done. After the law wants to contact me privately I can explain to him how at least you used to be able to make more than one PayPal account. It's one of those slayings where as the expression goes, there's more than one way to do it.
Infinityplus1
8 years, 6 months ago
Selling CDs of erotica is okay with paypal as far as I know.  You have to have a physical media, though.  It needs to be sold in a book, or on a canvas, or on a pillowcase, or in a CD.  You can't just sell downloads of it.  

This is, of course, unnecessarily prohibitive for people who don't have a formal distribution network, and who don't like working with physical addresses. Or for those, like Kevin, who distribute predominantly to other countries, where it would involve costly international shipping rates.
peter10ns
8 years, 6 months ago
you ever hear of renderotica as a example of one website? they sell plonty of download only merchandise of the cgi adult cind  through PayPal, as do plenty of other adult websites, such as the site that created the best friends forever cgi film . I'm trying to remember the name of that particular website but I can't often top of my head. My point being there are a few thousand websites that use PayPal and they specifically sell download only CGI and all merchandise.the trick is too sad but new PayPal account if they kill your old one.you have a main account, which is attached to a bank account and you don't use it for any kind of questionable activity and then you set up a few secondary accounts which are not directly attached to bank accounts. Use use those accounts for your business and subsequently transferred from one of those PayPal accounts to the one that is attached to a bank account and when you transfer money from one account to the other. You make it look like a regular transaction between friends. I know several people that have been doing this for years. What they used was a prepaid credit card from somewheres, like say Walmart and set up a PayPal account using eight Hotmail address.
thekzx
8 years, 6 months ago
Goddamn. What fucking tyrannical puritans.
neurodyne
8 years, 6 months ago
Happened to me as well. Had to remove my paypal-button from my tumblr, thats about it.
Patreon didn't bother them that much after explanation.
OmegaZuel
8 years, 6 months ago
Paypal really needs to stop acting like an overprotective parent over nsfw.
JohnnyWasteland
8 years, 6 months ago
You're not even American and this still happened to you?  Who does PayPal think they are?  The IRS?  The IRS does this to people like me.  This sort of thing should not happen to people overseas like you.  This is a straight up financial swindle.  You're being swindled by a company that handles money.
Ohnobees
8 years, 6 months ago
It's hilarious that Paypal was founded by a libertarian claiming to stand for personal freedom, and then they needlessly push their conservative puritanical views on people.  Hypocrites.
EtherSaga
8 years, 6 months ago
This is terrible... I'm sorry you had to go through this.
CaffienatedCheese
8 years, 6 months ago
What does this mean for those who have commissions waiting in the wings but haven't sent you any money?
kevinsano
8 years, 6 months ago
If you're willing to deal with one of these alternatives http://nsfw.kevinsano.com/post/131809810346/paypal-alt...
it could still happen.

If not, it'd be on hold until I can get a working paypal account again.
CaffienatedCheese
8 years, 6 months ago
Yeah, one of those should work. probably the patreon. im still willing for my commission, i should be getting some money within a week or two.
Drakxs
8 years, 6 months ago
So sorry to hear that. I tired of that kind of stupidities keeps happening to nsfw artists.
FierceWendigo
8 years, 5 months ago
Yet another reason to be scared of being a hardcore NSFW Artist, this always happens to the best... I hate when people force us to live like squares!!
VarraTheVap
8 years, 3 months ago
Quick question for clarification - Did you accept users to pay you via the "Family and Friends" feature?
Or only properly via payment for goods?

EDIT: Oops, actually didn't even notice that journal was so old, sorry!
biasedeyes
8 years, 3 months ago
Hey, you're eligible for the class action!~
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