PayPal General Purpose Card Complaints

Review and analysis of over 30 General Purpose Card complaints against PayPal

PayPal consumers have reported over 30 official complaints related to General purpose card. Out of the 30 consumer complaints against PayPal, 3% were disputed by the consumer (i.e. the consumer was not happy with how PayPal responded to their complaint) and 97% were processed in a timely manner. 7% of consumer complaints against PayPal resulted in the consumer receiving monetary compensation (e.g. money, cash reimbursement, etc.) and 47% resulted in non-monetary compensation.

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

December 9, 2015 - Hello, I am writing to complain against PayPal Inc for purposely limit my account and hold my fund from being accessed. On - -, I wrote an complain against PayPal for loading money into my account using PayPal cash card. The problem was solved yesterday ( -/-/-, - ) and I was able to loading fund into the specified account. Since PayPal has a limit for loading money everyday using cash card ( $500.00 per day ) and I have - cards for $1000.00, I need two days to finish loading ( yesterday and today ). I loaded the - cards this morning, and wait for the fund to be settl...

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PayPal Prepaid card adding money

December 7, 2015 - Hello, I am writing to make a complain against Paypal - and - - - - which dealying adding money to my account and holding the money for a week without any progress ( PayPal Ticket # - ). On - ( Mon ), I bought - PayPal cash card ( each with $500.00 - and tried to load into my PayPal account. The loading failed with " my cash card error code = - ''. I retried several time and all failed with the same error. Then I called customer service in the evening and a ticket ( # - ) was created. As requested, I emailed them immediately after the phone call the picture...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

August 10, 2015 - Paypal limited/froze my account on - -, 2015 for reasons that have not been revealed to me. They stated they would release my remaining funds $280.00 within 180 days. To date, they have not released my funds despite numerous emails that have gone unanswered. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

July 30, 2015 - Paypal closed my accounts and they 're refusing to send me a check with my leftover money in both of my accounts. I have about $ 1000+ in there and they 're depriving me of getting my money back after they took action and closed my accounts on their own accord. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

July 30, 2015 - Paypal took action to close my account but refuse to refund my money back to me. I 've waited for weeks after my account was closed but they 've still not sent my refund. I do n't understand why they 'll close my account for no reason whatsoever and then refuse to give me the money in the same account they closed. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

July 30, 2015 - Paypal took action to close my account but refuse to refund my money back to me. I 've waited for weeks after my account was closed but they 've still not sent my refund. I do n't understand why they 'll close my account for no reason whatsoever and then refuse to give me the money in the same account they closed. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

July 1, 2015 - Paypal has limited my account such that I can not withdraw anything and is withholding the balance of my account for 6 months. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

June 1, 2015 - I have - PayPal accounts. PayPal restricted all accounts in - 2014. They were very difficult to reach. When I did reach them, they asked me to send them some information, which I promptly faxed to them. I called them once again, and they told me they would release my money in 6 months. While I was extremely unhappy about them essentially stealing my money for 6 months, I decided to wait it out. Now, it 's been more than 6 months, and PayPal will not give me my money. - account is --. I has $180.00 in it. Another account is --. It has $310.00 in it. The last acc...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

May 11, 2015 - I have - PayPal accounts. PayPal restricted both accounts on - -, 2014. They were very difficult to reach. When I did reach them, they asked me to send them some information, which I promptly faxed to them. I called them once again, and they told me they would release my money in 6 months. While I was extremely unhappy about them essentially stealing my money for 6 months, I decided to wait ti out. Now, it 's been more than 6 months, and PayPal will not give me my money. - account is --. I has $830.00 in it. The other account is --. It has $40.00 in it. I wo...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

April 24, 2015 - My paypal account was permanently limited on -, so was my debit card. I have $3800.00 in my account and could not withdraw it. Paypal may have right to limit/close accounts, but they should not hold people 's money for that long. ...

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PayPal Prepaid card managing, opening, or closing account

April 5, 2015 - My paypal account was permanently limited by Paypal on -. I have contacted Paypal several times, but customer service department could n't explain to me why it was limited since it was done by another department. I have over $3000.00 in the account and could n't be transferred to my bank account due to limitation. Paypal said that it will be held for 180 days. I dont think that it is legal to hold the money for that long time without proper explanation. ...

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