Paypal and ASH is on the hunt...

[HighTech]

ASH recently put out a press release stating that they had warned PayPal that they could be held criminally liable for processing payments for E Cigarette retailers in an attempt to shut down online retailers from selling their goods online, but the public reaction may not be what ASH expected and may have just solidified the resolve of e cigarette supporters to keep them on the market.

Due to the pressure by these special interest groups, PayPal has now not only frozen the money in the accounts of these retailers, but made sure no other transactions can be completed by the retailers that use PayPal as their merchant system, putting many online retailers in a financial crunch.

The backlash has begun as message boards, and forums have lit up with angry members and postings concerning the act's of ASH and PayPals decision to cave to pressures from the special interest groups. On several online forums, dozens of users have stated that they are canceling their PayPal accounts and vow to never use them again as a payment processor online.

Me thinks ASH is crawling the web looking for sites that sell e-cig wares and accept PP as payment and then relaying that information to PP. And of course, this forum is just prime pickings for ASH to compile a list...

Better get alternative payment methods folks! Come to think of it, ASH could threaten any payment processor with legal action...

The rest of the article seems to be an advertisement:

OfficialWire: E Cigarette Users Send Resounding Backlash For Paypal Stunt By Ash

 

[Sasseaux]

Did this get posted to Digg? We could all go digg it if it was. I can't post to digg it on my dial up right now.

 

[Drunkwaco]

so i know were suppose to be peaceful about this but when can i threw down and be a Man about all this?

 

[Ryle]

Me thinks ASH is crawling the web looking for sites that sell e-cig wares and accept PP as payment and then relaying that information to PP. And of course, this forum is just prime pickings for ASH to compile a list...

Better get alternative payment methods folks! Come to think of it, ASH could threaten any payment processor with legal action...

The rest of the article seems to be an advertisement:

OfficialWire: E Cigarette Users Send Resounding Backlash For Paypal Stunt By Ash

Let em threaten.. I'd love for this goober to call me.. I'd be dancing with joy in fact..They can't actually DO anything to the processors, we can choose who we will and will not do business with.

ASH! If you're listening & you have an account on this forum.. send me a PM.. I'll give ya my number.. I'd LOVE to talk to you

 

[ckc]

The whole artical is an advertisement,check out the author then the advertisement.

 

[Ryle]

Ryle... they won't call you... that takes Courage

Any particular reason you posted so many times??? LOL

And I know they won't but it's funny to say it

 

[Ivisi]

please go to my blogspot ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES. I spent 3 months gathering info to help Current Tobacco Smokers

If you spent 3 months gathering the info, chances are you would have participated in more discussions in this forum, got your post count beyond 15 to post a URL, then you could have started a new thread to post this information into.

Instead, we have numerous posts in this thread that could have been condensed into one or two, and many of them are offtopic, including mine.

Mods, can we do something about this, maybe? And delete my post when you're done.

Ivisi

 

[sherid]

If you spent 3 months gathering the info, chances are you would have participated in more discussions in this forum, got your post count beyond 15 to post a URL, then you could have started a new thread to post this information into.

Instead, we have numerous posts in this thread that could have been condensed into one or two, and many of them are offtopic, including mine.

Mods, can we do something about this, maybe? And delete my post when you're done.

Ivisi

For God's sake, why does someone else's post count bother you? Please explain how this is possibly a problem.

 

[SSRob]

Just about anyone can post a "news release" on the internet. Crafty advertising there. They know people are going to be searching the web for information concerning the FDA and such.

 

[Ivisi]

For God's sake, why does someone else's post count bother you? Please explain how this is possibly a problem.

Did you even bother to read the posts? The person admitted to entering single line posts to boost their post count specifically to link to their blog, and a majority of those posts were offtopic.

It's not the post count that bothers me. It's what they did to boost it that bothers me, and their real reason for doing it.

 

[jexmex]

I feel the same way about post uppers. What he is doing is just upping his count to spam his url. That is the definition of a spammer. I have not looked at the link, but I sure hope it was worth it.

 

[sherid]

I guess I have better things to do than worry about someone's motive for posting might be. If it is to promote a blog, I get to choose whether or not to click on the link. I can also choose to ignore the posts if they bother me.

 

[jexmex]

Guess we were not the only ones who felt that way

 

[grimmer255]

I think paypal is great. But if this does happen I wont use paypal again either. But i wont take drastic measures until I see more suppliers get stiffed.

 

[LbizMan]

Paypal limited my account. Made me fill out affadavit and remove paypal from my site.

I tried to withdrawal my funds before the account was limited.

Now I got a new letter today saying that my account will be closed and my funds frozen for 180 days. I have over 4k in that account. When I called and asked they literally said "people in backrooms make those decisions and they don't talk to customers".... My only option is to email them and wait for most likely an automated response.

Any one else out there got shot down please pm me. The more we have against paypal the stronger position we hold.

 

[Sasseaux]

I ordered today from a supplier on here and it went through Paypal okay. Anyone who wants more details PM me. I don't want to call attention to someone if Paypal is leaving them alone.

Oh, and I didn't know this was a spam article when I said we should post it to Digg. I'm a NOOB. But I liked the article when I read it. I don't remember now what it said.