Why Doesn't Paypal Do Anything About Illegal Activity Reports?

[HawaiianPunch]

Paypal makes it extremely difficult to report merchants that are performing illegal activities or going against their terms of service. And even when you do report those merchants, they do nothing about it. For instance; [removed] accepts Paypal payments through Epoch and even when this is strictly against Paypals Terms of Service, they are allowed to continue to operate and use Paypal as a payment method. This has been reported to them several times. Along with many other much more disturbing and highly illegal things that I could not even legally post here, found through Instagram sellers. Even without abundant proof, Paypal does nothing about these operators. I think Paypal should be held more accountable and should have a streamlined way to handle these types of issues. 

[sharpiemarker]

@HawaiianPunch 

I didn’t check what that [removed] website is about but I wonder if it is because when people purchase from a website that uses Epoch to processing payments, Epoch is displayed as merchant, not the website/merchant themselves. PayPal is a payment option of Epoch’s so these websites/merchants might not even have a PayPal account, nor may PayPal know of these merchants or have any control over them receiving payments or not. Epoch website is hush on how the merchants are paid out their sales proceeds (ie. bank accounts or to PayPal for example).

Maybe you need to take the matter to Epoch. Epoch fine print/legal policies are on the thin side and do not have an acceptable use policy in the way PayPal has. Epoch’s services are rather expensive so it’s practically no holds barred and the things sold can be on the risky side: 1k account set up fee plus a flat rate processing fee based on volume and automatically adjust to current sales figures that starts from 15% down to 13%, the higher the volume. Epoch also don’t have rolling reserves or holds on funds either.

[HawaiianPunch]

Maybe, but do I have to be the one to say it? That is unfair, unjust and messed up all the way around. So it is completely acceptable to sell adult content if you are one place, but not the other. At the end of the day, a merchant is using Paypal to sell it. Albeit they are hiding behind a curtain to do it. And the others I could not directly name due to their illegal nature are the same exact story. Through places like Telegram where people sell illegal content they put up products for sale such as; [removed] ([removed]) which is like a mini shop created through here; [removed] [removed]) and you can checkout using Paypal for patently and highly illegal content. Paypal has been told about this, all of this, and refuse to do anything. 

[HawaiianPunch]

And so Paypal is just going to take a blind eye to this, huh? Genuinely illegal, obscene and grotesque content being peddled through them and they're going to shrug.