[thelist] How do you extract money from people over the internet?

[Brian Cummiskey]

Pieter Roosens wrote:
> So none of you have experienced any trouble with Paypal? Like them  
> closing down accounts and things like that ? I found a lot of rather  
> unpleasant information on the net.
> It's hard to know how exceptional these are.
> 

It happens... but it's much less frequent for merchants.  The only time 
they freeze accounts is when the buyer files for reversal claiming they 
never got the product, etc.

I've easily bought/sold about 20k worth through paypal in my day, and 
i've never had my account frozen.