paypal policy updates
policy updates taking effect 14 October
Section 2.2 of the “User Agreement for PayPal Service” will have the following wording added:
“Taxes. It is your responsibility to determine what, if any, taxes apply to the payments you make or receive, and it is your responsibility to collect, report and remit the correct tax to the appropriate tax authority. PayPal is not responsible for determining whether taxes apply to your transaction, or for collecting, reporting or remitting any taxes arising from any transaction.”
Section 11 of the “User Agreement for PayPal Service” will be amended as follows:
“PayPal's Right to Hold Funds. In order to ensure the integrity of a transaction (or) where PayPal, in its sole discretion, believes that a payment you receive may involve risk to PayPal or its customers, PayPal reserves the right to hold funds or proceeds from transactions by placing them in a “pending” or hold status beyond the normal distribution period until PayPal determines, in its reasonable discretion, that any such risk has passed. PayPal may hold funds in order to mitigate any actual or reasonably anticipated risk related to transactions it considers suspicious, or where PayPal’s position (or the position of any third party with whom you are transacting through PayPal) may be adversely affected with respect to any liability or obligation of yours to PayPal or that third party.
PayPal will generally release the hold after 21 days from the date the hold is placed, unless you receive a dispute, claim, chargeback, or reversal on the transaction subject to the hold, in which case PayPal may hold the payment until the matter is resolved pursuant to this Agreement. PayPal may choose to release the hold earlier, for example, if the buyer leaves positive feedback on eBay or where PayPal is otherwise satisfied that the transaction has completed successfully.”
Paypal have also started holding funds for periods of 21 days up to 180 days.. yes 180 at their discretion, and this is on all accounts, it is there are already several thousand accounts of this having already occured and account holders many of whom have never even visited an EBay site in their life are justifyably outraged, the above change is for Ebay's PayPal ToS but is already widely applied worldwide to general non ebay accounts and has been for some time.