very upset over paypal

[Underwhelmed]

Exactly!!!!!!! I agree with you whole heartedly. They are hurting legitimate business when they withdraw as merchants and they are very WRONG in doing so.. Today I say, good bye and good ridden to ebay and paypal.. Shame on them!!!--

Meh, PayPal has been shunned and boycotted by the NRA for several years now over their policies and it doesn't seem to have had any effect on their profitability.

There are many more gun owners in the US than there are vapers, so I doubt they would even notice a vaping boycott.

 

[Robino1]

I mean no harm. I just don't understand why they are anti vape and vaping products. I've always loved paypal but I'm very passionate about vaping and feel it saved my life.after many many years of struggling and trying to quit cigarettes trying everything from the patch to pills and finally finding something that worked and allowed me to be free of tobacco, I view vaping as something to be celebrated not condemened. Please forgive my anger it's just when I see a good business struggling because now their merchant has cut them off, it upsets me greatly. As I don't view vaping as a negative at all but as a positive thing. It just confuses me as to why said merchant would do such a thing. Thank you for understand my point and again, forgive my anger.I just don't see vaping in a.negative light. Nor as something that should put a negative stigma on if supported.my intent is not to offend anyone, I truly don't understand why being associated with vaping or vaping products is viewed as a negative. When it has helped so many people...

Trust me, we feel the same way. It's not just PayPal that we feel treats vaping unfairly, it's government and lawmakers too. It seems senseless that vaping isn't embraced by everyone.

 

[drsocal]

Paypal is the worst...the end!

 

[JMarca]

E-Bay has the same policy it's just not really enforced in fact E-Bay and Paypal are the exact same company. When it comes to desputes on E-Bay however you may not be protected if they find out it's an E-Cig product. They've pulled that card with people in the past.

 

[MissBlue]

it's very easy to make this a non-issue by simply not using ANY vape-related words in the item descriptions on Paypal.

As far as the principle of the thing - yes, ITA that it's ridiculous, but on this one I am 'picking my battles', because it's more important to me to be able to continue to use both Paypal and eBay, than it is to make a stink about it with them on principle. It's easy enough to avoid the whole issue and still use Paypal, AND eBay by being clever about what products are called and how things are worded.

 

[Rickb119]

It seems senseless that vaping isn't embraced by everyone.

Amen!!!!!!

 

[Rickajho]

Not knowing more about what vendor and the nature of their business dealings it's only speculation as to what was the real source of their problems with PayPal.

If you read the PayPal AUP there actually is no mention of e-cig anything in there as a banned category of merchandise. At all. Go read it.

However, this has been a long standing banned category on eBay. If that store had been using eBay as a cheap store front to sell merchandise on line (and in the store even), and for whatever reason they ended up in the cross hairs of eBay for a TOS violation, then yeah - if their eBay account got shut down then there goes their option to use eBay as a front to process PayPal transactions.

Actually, your post doesn't make it clear at all what really happened. First you refer to buying from a "vape store" and then you refer to going back to a "site." If you are talking about an eBay "store front" then the issue is with eBay and PayPal probably had nothing to do with it.

 

[crxess]

We do all understand and it is a PITA to say the least. As I mentioned, my choices work for my situation. Others have their reasoning.

Some people are afraid of Spiders. With PayPal it's ANTZ.

 

[Jvalles95]

Thats weird, been buying most of my vape stuff from ebay and so far nothing has happened

 

[dr g]

tbh this is on the merchant for not researching the paypal TOS, or willingly violating it, and having no backup plan when and if they were caught. Paypal offers very low costs and a lot of services, so they like to steer clear of high risk industries. While the vapor hardware industry isn't all that high risk per se, it is at high risk of legislative attack and it's Paypals right to steer clear of that rather than pay their lawyers to figure out what it means to them.

 

[rzil]

very unprofessional of them , what's next ? bank will not make a transaction just because the bank CEO doesn't like what you are buying.

Vapors buy online all the time so if they want to loose that many customers so be it but they shouldn't be surprised if some1 else comes around