So, I woke up to a great email this morning. From PayPal. And I usually ignore PayPal emails because they are one of two things – notifications about crap that doesn’t matter or phishing emails.
This one was directly to me.
My account has been suspended. Why? Apparently I violated their terms.
The thing is, I didn’t. Their emails said that I was selling adult services or obscene materials. No, I had a donate button on my sidebar. MANY MANY MANY sex blogs I read have donate buttons.
I know that they’re talking about the “Christmas Wish” thing. Again, I wasn’t selling anything. I was offering gifts with donations if you wanted to claim one, and no, not everyone did. Furthermore, nothing that I gave away was anything more “obscene” than what was actually on my website. So now my account is PERMANENTLY suspended. I can think of at least five different instances, right now, where sex bloggers raised money through their websites using PayPal, raffling off items, selling items and tickets to events, etc.
What really pisses me off, though, isn’t that they canceled my account. That’s PayPal’s prerogative, and while I still feel that I didn’t violate their terms, they have the right to do whatever they want to do.
What really pisses me off is that someone had to have “reported” me.
There are millions and millions of PayPal accounts. I’ve had mine for over a year, and I’ve had a button on my website for almost as long. They specifically mention the Christmas Wish post by URL in their letter to me, and there aren’t even links to my account in that post, just text that mentions the donate button that was on the sidebar. My account wasn’t even suspiciously active, despite my best efforts to raise money. So are you going to tell me that PayPal randomly found my website, read it, and decided to block me?
Bullshit.
Someone reported me, or someone who works for PayPal reads my website and reported me. Either way, anonymous tipster, you’re an asshole. Do you hear me? Ass. Hole. I hope you feel really good about yourself. Because guess what? You’re wrong. I have as much right to receive donations from my website as someone running a non-adult blog. This isn’t a porn site, this isn’t even a site about fucking. This is a site about finding who you are. And I think who YOU are is pretty damn clear.
So for anyone out there still interested in donations, just let me know. I have a friend with a working account who will be accepting them on my behalf.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, jerk.
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Rori is the founder of Between My Sheets. She works full time as a writer, reviewer, and online educator and can be reached at rori-at-betweenmysheets.com
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I feel you. Similar thing happened to one of my videos on YouTube. Prude asshole flagged it as “inappropriate” and has then hurt my hits… and there’s no way to undo this.
Thanks for stopping by, Giovanny. I do think, though, that there’s a difference between posting something that people consider offensive or inappropriate on a social networking site and having a donation button on your own site. Having a donation button here wasn’t showing up on any website other than my own, and if people are here, they already know that the content is adult-orientated.
Some people have no lives. I’m sorry!
I don’t have the money to donate, but I sure as hell didn’t (and wouldn’t) report you. Just sayin’.
And slightly off-topic, but what’s PayPal’s problem anyway? Seriously – porn money is still money and they still get a cut. As long as everything’s legal (and this blog surely is)…well, whatever. Obviously eBay & PayPal are run by prudes.