Our Paypal account was frozen last week, When i spoke to AUP and Risk Management at PP, and explained how they can say the ecig is a violation of their AUP, since the AUP does not state the ECIG, and the Ecig is not officially labeled as a Tobacco Product. they only replied with " As Paypal is a part of Ebay it is in the best interest of these companies to currently avoid any issues of this product as the FDA as marked them as unsafe"
I then asked them to provide me the documentation proving this product is unsafe, and to also show me where in there T&C it states the sale of Ecig is not allowed thru paypal. They could not provide either one. Regardless they froze our account. they DONT need a reason to freeze your account, they just can. as we have been a verified member of PP since 2005 we were shocked. We had our account released in 2 days, but had to agree to 2 requests.
1. Provide a Photo ID
2. Remove Paypal logo from our site and if we continue to use to paypal, that we can not use it to sell Ecig or parts for them.
I am so FREAKIN glad we no longer use them.. Yes as nice as it was for our customers and our selves. It is so much easier now and less expensive to just go thru a CC Merchant instead. as many have suggested on these forums. if you are supplier get out of paypal while u can. They may have not frozen your account yet, but they will. They froze our account the day after i was speaking with another supplier telling them how i wasn't worried HA what a wake up call!!