I recently had my PayPal account temporarily frozen for the second time in 12 months for the sin of having too many customers put too much money in my account within a limited amount of time. So I go through the kabuki dance of filling out their "resolution" form once again with the same info as last year, and the account is put back in good standing after a few days.
Searching around the web I see this is a problem many people who have a sudden surge in payments have, so I opened an account with Square, Inc. and began trying to steer my customers to them, but still let them pay with PayPal if they'd rather not.
Unfortunately I haven't had much luck with customers using Square, Inc, who accept payment through "Google Pay or any major credit card."
Has PayPal become like Amazon -- they dominate the market so much people won't even consider using some other method to pay because they may not trust another method? I realize they're not a regular bank -- they just play one on the Web and can impose any kind of rules they like without any government oversight (nothing gets a regular bank's attention unless the deposit is over $10K and my deposits weren't anywhere near that).
The PayPal rep was like, "hey, you've had an account with us for 17 years and only had it frozen two times." Seems like if I'd been with them for 17 years they would know who I am and know better than freeze it to begin with even though some kind of arbitrary algorithm was tripped.
If anyone has any tips for getting customers to pay with some other method than PayPal I'd like to hear them.
