Another reputable Internet marketer bites the dust. Yep, PayPal has taken down yet another marketer (Edmund Loh) who has done nothing wrong. You can say all you want, but selling and reselling products is NOT MLM and it’s NOT wrong.

Here’s the scoop from Edmund Loh…

The first time my PayPal account was limited (which was only a week ago or so), the reason given was that I’m involved in MLM/Pyramid/Matrix which obviously, isn’t true. I emailed PayPal to clarify further (since it’s not true) but they were more intent on me removing references to PayPal (buttons, logos, etc.) on my site. They must’ve thought that they’ve already given their reason by sending that notification.

Anyway, I reluctantly did so especially if I wanted to have my account limitation lifted off and it was done in just hours. My account was all fine for a while then.

A few days later, I received a feedback form from PayPal and so I wrote down my experience with the unjust accusation.

Now, I received another limited access notification on my account, given the same reasons again. Note that by now, you cannot find any references to PayPal on my website’s index and member login pages.

I phone PayPal, and the staff told me I should email them at aup [at] paypal.com. I did just that, as instructed, but since I wanted to solve this a.s.a.p. and real-time, I phoned them the second time (yes, it’s costly calling from this part of the world) and request to do a site review and resolve this real-time, since earlier I mentioned that the reasons for account limitation were merely unjust.

The staff said that she had no authority to do so, and it’s only up to the AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) staff to do just that. I asked to be forwarded to them, but she went on to say that they don’t accept phone calls. I think it’s odd, but then - do I have any other options?

I hope this can be saved because I strongly believe my account is limited for the wrong reasons - twice and I wasn’t entertained on further questioning as they thought the first email (the notification that mentions I’m running MLM/Pyramid/Matrix,GRQ,etc.) would suffice.

There’s an ongoing discussion over at www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=101324

This is why this blog is here… To warn everyone about PayPal. When they shut me down over a year ago, everyone figured it was because I HAD done something wrong. Simply not the case and many others are having to go through all this now…

Liz