Suspicious activity = we can freeze this account for a couple of months, grab a crap load of interest off investing the money, then give him his cash (minus the interest) after we have "reviewed his case"
PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev's Account
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This is not how you make a good case for yourself in the business, guys. First screwing up a donation drive and then denying a guy his hard-earned money - not good.
At all.
At all.
There seriously needs to be an alternative to paypal. Its just fucking weird how you can't really do business on the internet without it, but theres nothing comparable.
I don't touch pay pal with so much as even looking at the logo it's WAY dodgy to use and very hit and miss what you can do with it alot of the time. They need to fix all these problems with it because I've heard horror stories attached to this companys name.
If he gets it back anytime soon its because hes got enough funds to hire a bunch of lawyers and take them to the cleaners.
I agree I would furious if I was making that sort of money then all of a sudden my account was frozen.FloodOne said:
AFAICT, & IANAL, but it's pretty standard practice for most monetary institutions. Since Chip/Pin came in, banks (and similar) regularly monitor transactions in case your card/account is being used fraudulently or being used to launder money.Lightslei said:
At any time you go past certain spending/donating limits, it will freeze you out so their accountants can do a detailed scan.
We've had people froze out over Christmas, Weddings, Summer Holidays by banks I'm not at liberty to mention - but the advantage of them is you can walk into the nearest place and prove your ID.
With online banking though...
Saying that, I've never had troubles with Paypal/Steam or any other micro-transactions apart from SOE, who ignored my cancellation of MMO fees because my browser crashed. They didn't inform me until months afterwards.
Paypal has a very arbitrary and vague set of rules it can be a hassle to deal with it when they want to mess with you....
I will hunt you to the deepest corners of hell and make you apologize for that statement.rembrandtqeinstein said:
OT: Minecraft is the best game of this generation. GIVE THE MAN HIS MONEY BACK!
Minecraft is really good game. Tho... it does have some issues.
In the game, during nighttime (or while cave exploration) your likely to run into monsters that kill you. This isn't so much a problem as much as a augmentation to something much more aggravating. You see when you die, you drop all you items. (armor, equipment, resources, RARE ITEMS.) So if you want your stuff back, you have to walk all the way back to where you dies and pick them all back up, of course by the time you get there, it will be guaranteed to be the newest monster spawn point rave party. this couples with the fact that lava destroys all items will do nothing to slow computers being chucked out windows. Then when you get so frustrated to turn monsters off it gets really boring.
In the game, during nighttime (or while cave exploration) your likely to run into monsters that kill you. This isn't so much a problem as much as a augmentation to something much more aggravating. You see when you die, you drop all you items. (armor, equipment, resources, RARE ITEMS.) So if you want your stuff back, you have to walk all the way back to where you dies and pick them all back up, of course by the time you get there, it will be guaranteed to be the newest monster spawn point rave party. this couples with the fact that lava destroys all items will do nothing to slow computers being chucked out windows. Then when you get so frustrated to turn monsters off it gets really boring.
