Or if your customers accidentally put anything about e-cigs on the form. That's gotten several suppliers' accounts shut down.
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I'm confused...
Is paypal being forced to prohibit e-cig sales, or are they doing this on their own?
...or is it some hybrid of several issues.
Is paypal being forced to prohibit e-cig sales, or are they doing this on their own?
...or is it some hybrid of several issues.
I suspect that everyone's favorite ambulance chaser sent them a letter "informing" them that sales of e-cigarettes are illegal in the U.S., basing his "legal opinion" on the FDA's assertion that the products are unapproved drug-delivery devices. I think Paypal refuses to process tobacco sales as well, so the US District court's recommendation to regulate them as tobacco products would not help.
It seems vicious and nasty that the tobacco industry holds so much sway over the government no just in the US but here in Australia too. Look at the UK e-cigs are sold freely no problems but here it seems I have to resort to frowned upon methods to get healthy after the damage the tobacco industry had caused my health. Now paypal are saying what we can and cannot use our money on? It's my damn money!
I couldn't stay away from PayPal even if I tried. Easiest/fastest way to trade from the classifieds here, and most vendors on eBay won't accept any other forms of ePayments.
The best place to purchase cheap chargers for just about anything: eBay, payments accepted "PayPal".
The best place to purchase cheap chargers for just about anything: eBay, payments accepted "PayPal".
Looks like it's time to swamp that jackasses mailbox with letters of grievance.
Don't bother. He has been replaced as the ASH head.
Everbody thinks he is a joke, including all the movers and shakers in Tobacco Control.
He did? How the heck did I miss that?
So much time messing around with the forum, I miss the important stuff.
Bill Godshall posted the information in the News forum. He says the replacement is a much nicer fellow.
thats the biggest load of bull ive ever read in my life 1st off you can buy nicotine anything WITHOUT a prescription ie patches gum and MF CIGARETTES come on...
they have a lot more issues to worry about than a e-cig, isnt there a nuclear plant about to melt down? gas prices off the chain economy about to crash AGAIN on and on and on just my 2 cents
I've read that it's just the delivery system the drug companies have a problem with... I could be wrong though.
The drug companies are scared ........ of e-cigs because they will lose all their billions of $$$$ a year that they make from their ineffective "Stop smoking/nicotine" products that they charge so much for.
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I've said this before but in Australia I think it's because cigarettes are so heavily taxed ($20AUD for a pack of 40's) that they'll lose a .... load of revenue. Plus the Nicobate stuff.
The tax argument is the least persuasive to me because they'll just fix it the obvious way: apply the taxes to vaping juices and equipment.
Wouldn't there still be a large portion of people who want to have no addiction at all so there would still be some need to use the Nicobate stuff? So the inhalers would still be being sold.
Paypal sucks period. I've been boycotting them since 2000!
Everything is considered suspicious activity to paypal, then they limit or lock your account, while they make interest on holding YOUR MONEY.
Everything is considered suspicious activity to paypal, then they limit or lock your account, while they make interest on holding YOUR MONEY.
True as that may be... Its still better than western union... Charging money to send money.
:EDIT: besides it's still very convenient and safer than giving your credit card details out. Also I wonder what else is on their banned items list? Plutonium? I think that'd be pretty damn funny to be a fly on the wall when the office workers process that payment "ok so this one is $3000AUD for... 1kg of plutonium!?"
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