How to Prevent the Horrible Pay-Pal Freeze

Helping You Succeed Financially

Chris Knight
The Pay-Pal freeze has actually demolished online businesses, and it can hurt you if you are not careful. You should definitely have a back-up fund and back-up bank account just in case your Pay-Pal transactions go into a blunder due to a freeze. In order to beat the freeze, you must first know what it is, how to avoid it, and how to get out of it when you're in it.

What is the Pay-Pal Freeze?
One of the most important questions is: What is the Pay-Pal freeze? The Pay-Pal freeze is when the company believes that there may be fraudulent activity that may be happening in your account. In order to stop people from doing fraudulent things with your account, Pay-Pal may freeze all transactions, progress, in order to get to the bottom of everything. You will be required to follow their instructions so that you can get out of the freeze and continue with your business. There are actually times when Pay-Pal can freeze your account without you doing anything wrong!

Be sure that you know how to avoid it, and know what to do if you can't avoid it. There are many things that you can do in order to avoid it, however, you must be willing to put in the time and effort to do so.

How Do I Avoid It?
In order to avoid the Pay-Pal freeze you may want to try doing things gradually. One of the most common causes of the Pay-Pal freeze is a seemingly dormant account receiving a huge influx of activity. If you are running a business, you want to make sure that it is growing slowly but surely. This is especially true if you are running a wholesale business, or dropshipping business that requires tons of daily purchases and transactions. You may also want to consider having back-up funds in your bank account so that you can recover from the freezing of all your transactions.

If you have actually tried everything possible and see yourself practically frozen in time when it comes to e-biz; you should definitely consider following Pay-Pal's instructions in order to avoid any further confusion. By following the orders of Pay-Pal and doing exactly what they tell you to do, you can ultimately recover from your freeze and continue on your venture to create a successful online business.

Pay-pal gives buyers in all e-commerce the ability to perform transactions with safety and ease, however, you always have to have a back-up plan just in case everything doesn't go as planned.

Published by Chris Knight

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  • Ben Dover Knowmoore8/21/2010

    Paypal freeze accounts around the world. This is nothing new. An entire site has powerful information about where the frozen money is and what is really happening. www. paypalfreeze.squarespace.com

  • sent paypal pay later to a Orlando,FL where my mo9/18/2008

    payment sent 9/1/08 The money was to go to settle a negitive balance. Since the payment wasn't posted I can't order anything elseWHAT UP? Have dealed with your web sites. still no help. The payment was cashed but not sent to ebay. I will shortly close my account I DON'T LIKE BEING RIPPED OFF.

  • Bill3/3/2008

    If the author thinks that PayPal is some nice friendly fair honest entity that author, "how to get out of the PayPal freeze" is sadly mistaken. Hundreds of sellers have been abused by this out of control corporation. The author really needs to do his homework, his article reads like something in the Boy Scout Manual. Come now, enough BS. Lets hear some real facts about the PayPal Freeze and all the people it has been wrongly and indiscriminately used against. The real way to get out of it is to retain a Lawyer and SUE PayPal. That works very well. Costs money but it works and you get your money back real soon.

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