Posted on 04/09/2013 4:00:53 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
Wow. I had heard that Paypal was anti-second ammendment, but I now know first hand. I received a phone call and this email today from Paypal. I have been a member for about 13 years. I am canceling my account today. Paypal puts Ammunition and firearms in the same category as narcotics, steroids, drug paraphernalia, misc. crimes, etc. See my pasted content from Paypal's website at the end of this email.
Further, my sale of ammunition went to a single Mom in PA who is concerned about her safety and being unable to defend herself given the recent political environment and new anti-second amendment laws. She was unable to get any ammunition where she lived and further stated that ammo was like a currency there. She is one conservative republican in a large community of democrats and feels that if civil unrest were to develop, she would certainly be targeted by scores of people around her that have been living on entitlements. God help us.
Send this on. Psalms 144:1
----- Original Message ----- From: ******** To: ******** Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Your account has been limited until we hear from you
From: service@paypal.com Date: April 9, 2013, 1:01:35 PM MDT To: ******** Subject: Your account has been limited until we hear from you
Dear ******,
After a recent review of your account activity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales of Ammunition on www.GunBroker.com via Seller ID: *******.
Please refer to transaction/s: ***************** In order to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy and avoid the limitation of your account, you will need to: - Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.
The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy.
Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal at its discretion, may not be used to send or receive payments for (this list includes but isn't limited to) ammunition, firearms, certain firearm parts or accessories, or certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law. For a more complete list, please see our Help Centre on firearms and weapons.
The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US
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This is not intended to be an all-inclusive review or list of your website/s and auction/s. Furthermore, the violations of the Policy described above are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that all transactions comply with the Acceptable Use Policy.
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We encourage you to login and return your account to good standing as soon as possible. Failure to respond by the following date will result in the further escalation of this issue: April 14, 2013
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That is oooollld news my FRiend.
It is how drug dealers conduct transactions while keeping snoopers clueless. That’s where all the street names come from. They have to change it often as cops get on what they are using. They don’t say ‘want to buy some pot’ but instead, ‘want some candy’.
Our Republican Women’s Group was considering using PayPal for our next fundraiser to make it easier for people to buy tickets. So I sent your post via email to three people on our Board and the email was rejected by Yahoo. Never had this happen before. Worrisome.
Oh yikes! That’s strange.
Get used to this, folks!
There is an effort to make us extinct.
Liberals already control education.
They have their fingers in banking.
Soon, your mortgage and insurance companies will ask about guns in the home.....or they will already know via some federal database.
Here’s the rejection I received. Maybe somebody smarter than I can explain it. X’s replaced people’s names I had sent it to.
xxxxxxxx@sbcglobal.net
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host mx2.sbcglobal.am0.yahoodns.net [98.138.206.39]:
554 Message not allowed - [PH01] Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://postmaster.yahoo.com/errors/postmaster-27.html [120]
xxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host mta6.am0.yahoodns.net [98.138.112.33]: 554 Message not allowed - [PH01] Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://postmaster.yahoo.com/errors/postmaster-27.html [120]
You must have used the word Republican, conservative, Constitution or some other equally “terroristic” term.
I agree. A group of friends & I were talking about this after Sandy Hook. Pretty soon, you won’t be able to get homeowner’s insurance if you have guns in your home. Or they’ll make your premium so high it’ll be cost-prohibitive. It’s getting ugly out there, folks - the hostility towards gun owners & indoctrination of our children will soon make us second-class citizens.
Some idiot surgeon I work with was blathering on about her kids wanting to play at a friend’s house a few weeks ago. She said she called the other mother inquiring as to whether or not there are firearms in this home. When the mother said yes, Dr Liberal said “well my children are not permitted to come to your home, then. But your children are welcome to play at my house.” What an ass. Meanwhile, my cat has injured more people than my guns. The damn thing lays on the steps, tripping us quite frequently. And once, he turned the gas on the stove while we were asleep. I’m lucky the roof didn’t blow off when I flipped the kitchen light switch the next morning. Guess we need cat-control legislation.
violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation.
relate to transactions involving (a) narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer safety, (b) drug paraphernalia, (c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) stolen goods including digital and virtual goods (e) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (f) items that are considered obscene, (g) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (h) certain sexually oriented materials or services, (i) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, or (j) ,certain weapons or knives regulated under applicable law.
relate to transactions that (a) show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law, (b) support pyramid or ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs, (c) are associated with purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card, (d) are for the sale of certain items before the seller has control or possession of the item, (e) are by payment processors to collect payments on behalf of merchants, (f), are associated with the sale of traveler's checks or money orders, (h) involve currency exchanges or check cashing businesses, or (i) involve certain credit repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions or insurance activities.
involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent.
violate applicable laws or industry regulations regarding the sale of (a) tobacco products, or (b) prescription drugs and devices.
involve gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not it is legally defined as a lottery) and sweepstakes unless the operator has obtained prior approval from PayPal and the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US
It's been this way for a very long time.
What? You mean that people are supposed to actually read those TOS agreements before clicking to say they agree to them? :)
I was just thinking about a pay service for firearms, ammo and such. Was thinking like “BangBucks”
Actually I used the subject: PayPal Anti-2nd Amendment Alert on the email that was bounced. Maybe some truth to your statement.
Two weeks ago I sent an email to the same people and used the subject: PayPal Option for Fundraiser. But at that time I wasn’t aware of their anti-2nd Amendment stance and we were looking for some way to allow people to buy tickets for a Republican fundraiser without having to physically mail a check. Tried changing the Subject to just PayPal but didn’t change the content and it still did not go through.
Hell, lets all use paypal to buy crap-tons of ammo and force them cancel thousands of accounts over it.
I haven’t used pistolpay but haven’t heard any complaints.
I had heard that Paypal was anti-second ammendment, but I now know first hand. I received a phone call and this email today from Paypal. I have been a member for about 13 years. I am canceling my account today. Paypal puts Ammunition and firearms in the same category as narcotics, steroids, drug paraphernalia, misc. crimes, etc.
If your state doesn’t allow something neither does Paypal. I understand this policy.
PayPal is a subsidiary of eBay, which has long had an anti-gun, anti-ammo policy. I think eBay even bans gun accessories.
On the plus side, eBay is not the only online auction site, and PayPal is not the only electronic payment system online.
Check for “PayPal alternatives”.
PayPal and e-Bay are spwans of Satan. Their fees are outrageous and they have no interest in protecting the seller with regards to international sales. I have been ripped off of about $1,250.00 in the last year with international orders “claiming” they never got their items...regardless of the tracking across the U.S. to the plane leaving the U.S.
They can’t track packages once they leave the U.S. so they side with the buyer EVERY SINGLE TIME and screw the seller. I had to stop selling internationally.
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