Today's Failure Friday story is one I have heard in different variations several

times over the years for actually a couple of decades now. Paypal has been around, I forget exactly what year it came out,

but I think PayPal has been around more than 20 years.

I used to use PayPal in my very early days of selling stuff on eBay

and then used it in a variety of business.

I actually used PayPal to take in ticket revenue

for the First World Domination Summit.

And thankfully, I did not have a failure or disaster, but I've known

several people who have had pretty much the same story that you're going to

hear today. Like I said, different variations, but sometimes PayPal and it's not just them it's other

Merchant accounts other financial companies sometimes when you take in a lot of money

whether it's for a product launch or a future event, they get worried.

And they think, oh, this is fraudulent, this is some kind of scam.

And instead of asking you about it or you know trying to get some clarity and

understand that it's actually you know a perfectly legitimate use case sometimes

they just freeze the account and it's very difficult to get information to or from

them. It's very difficult to appeal the process and it's extremely stressful for somebody in that situation.

So one thing you can do is not use PayPal

because they are somewhat notorious for this.

At least, if you're going to use them,

make sure you have some backups. Make sure you're not keeping a lot of funds in that account.

Just transfer anything that comes in right away.

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