Amendment to the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy

[bestcigliquid]

Just thought id post the new Paypal Policy Update and get your thoughts:

We encourage you to carefully review this Policy Update to familiarise yourself with all of the changes that are being made to the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy.

1. Tobacco Products, E-cigarettes and Prescription Drugs and Devices

The Acceptable Use Policy currently prohibits use of PayPal for activities that violate applicable law or industry regulations regarding the sale of tobacco products or prescription drugs and devices. We're replacing that prohibition with new policy language covering these types of items, as well as e-cigarettes. Under the new language, use of PayPal for cigarette transactions will be prohibited. In addition, merchants will be permitted to use PayPal for sales of non-cigarette tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and prescription drugs and devices only with PayPal’s pre-approval.
The changes will be as follows:

• Section 5 under Prohibited Activities, which contains the current provisions related to tobacco products and prescription drugs and devices, will be removed.
• A new Section 2(c) under Prohibited Activities will read as follows:
  • “You may not use the PayPal service for activities that: … 2. relate to transactions involving … (c) cigarettes …”

Service Requiring Pre-Approval: … selling … non-cigarette tobacco products, e-cigarettes or prescription drugs/devices.
Contact Information: Please send contact information, business website URL and brief business summary to [email protected]

 

[steffijade]

Personally, I think it stinks but paypal is the bog standard for 'e-commerce' as far as I'm aware and a lot of vendors rely on it.

Is there a viable alternative service that isn't quite so erm... authoritative?

If so, it might be worth vendors putting their heads together and migrating en masse?

Anything that interrupts the flow of profit for a business might give pause for thought.

 

[3born]

Personally, I think it stinks but paypal is the bog standard for 'e-commerce' as far as I'm aware and a lot of vendors rely on it.

Is there a viable alternative service that isn't quite so erm... authoritative?

If so, it might be worth vendors putting their heads together and migrating en masse?

Anything that interrupts the flow of profit for a business might give pause for thought.

Google wallet is an alternative


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[Aerovape Ltd]

This ok for us pre-approved companies especially juice companies like ourselves, if you're a new company or a company that has not joined Paypal yet then you will need pre-approval.

 

[pipedreamsuk]

This ok for us pre-approved companies especially juice companies like ourselves, if you're a new company or a company that has not joined Paypal yet then you will need pre-approval.

I read the post as any company selling anything under that category would need to email Paypal and ask for approval. Whether they are currently selling or not.

 

[Blackhack]

I'm just going to carry on as normal...I think paypal are just covering their asses in case of future regulations...Much the same as eBay who have an anti "Tobacco" policy....I sell a lot of stuff on eBay , but I have to claim that it's eshisha products....

I'm registered with paypal as a trader so I'll just bluff it out, but if it comes to the crunch I'll just use something else for payments....

 

[Phantom Diablo]

even though paypal owns ebay ( or vice versa and lists over 88,000 products in there smoking / shisha section. fucking hypocritical bastards... you wont seem them pulling the plug on any of that simply because of the revenue lost from there cut of the sales.

 

[bestcigliquid]

full link here

Sorry, i forgot to add the full link.. seem Paypal will be no longer apart of Ebay:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full

 

[Phantom Diablo]

Sorry, i forgot to add the full link.. seem Paypal will be no longer apart of Ebay:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full

sounds like pp getting to big for there boots.. looks like a few amendment changes in regard to ebay protection but nothing to overly dramatic .
is sagepay a possible alternative to paypal?

 

[walks]

I believe World Pay could be a viable alternative as well. I work in Retail IT so know of a fair few payment providers. Their 'bread and butter' if you will is CnP payments in store, but the majority of them will also provide an online service. Not sure whether they will provide online only though. For those worried about it I'm sure some simple research will help.

The only downside of course is that it costs money.

EDIT: Just found this:

The Top 12 Online Payment Alternatives to PayPal - Search Engine Journal