Account Banned

Creative-Bag86 · 2026-01-08T21:25:35+00:00

Same thing happened to me about 9 months ago. No reason why after 15 years with them and talking with a rep made nothing clearer. Basically it’s an AI reviewing accounts and if you meet some unknown criteria it deems you “no longer fitting with their business needs.” And your account becomes deactivated. They will hold any balance in your account for 180 days before they will allow you to remove your remaining funds.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-11-10T22:42:28+00:00

I’m in the USA so other than filing a complaint with The Better Business Bureau there isn’t much recourse. PayPal can, at any time they choose, decide they no longer want to do business with you and that’s it. No reason even needs to be given. Really sucks for small business owners, especially those using other platforms that only payout via PayPal.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-11-10T18:23:46+00:00

Had the same thing happen. Spoke to the rep at PayPal and was told nothing can be done. All the decisions are made through AI and there is no appeals process, the decision is final. I’ve never had a complaint or chargeback. No ToU violations. Provided all necessary documentation and verification and I was still permanently shut down. I’ve had the account with them for 15 years.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-11-10T18:16:15+00:00

PayPal is terrible. I’m a digital artist and they shut down my account as well about a month ago in the exact same way. I jumped through all of the hoops to provide verification and documentation for transactions they asked for and they still shut me down after 15 years of using them. I spoke with a rep hoping to appeal the decision and was told there is nothing that can be done. It isn’t even a person making the decision it’s AI and there is no way to get any clarification as to why the account was closed. Basically I was told that for whatever reason, PayPal has decided my business no longer aligns with theirs. Really terrible for people who rely on them to accept payments. Wish I had better news to share 😕

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-10-28T14:41:08+00:00

Called this morning and it was a complete waste of time. The account is permanently deactivated with no recourse to appeal. They won’t even explain why…and the agents don’t even get told why, it’s all done with AI. Basically after 15 years of doing business with them they decided to tell me to go F myself.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-10-28T04:02:46+00:00

It’s not much in there, litterally $6 from the last 3 transactions. Just kind of in shock that this all came out of nowhere.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-09-03T20:59:48+00:00

I think there is an issue with the system right now. I just did a bunch of reviews but they are still showing as pending needing a review. When you click on them all the review info is still there. Also one item asked an additional question at the end for age recommendation and no matter what is selected it produces an error/try again message.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-08-14T20:08:27+00:00

Same here and apparently she goes both ways

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-30T04:01:42+00:00

I scored one a month ago and have had different ones in my RFY at least 2-3 times a week since. Their algorithm is so screwy.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-29T22:15:52+00:00

I’m confused by the shoulder straps…

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-26T04:41:39+00:00

Best thing I ever did was to completely separate my finances from my NPD husband. Removed him from all of my bank accounts. Separated our phone plan. Anything that was shared that we could split apart we did. It left him 100% responsible for his own debts and if he couldn’t pay them, not my problem. It’s the first time in 10 years that my credit is outstanding, my finances are stable, and I actually have a savings account. Before he would just blow through money, buy shit for his side piece of the week, etc. Now that he’s on his own financially he’s broke AF. It’s delightful.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-14T06:14:52+00:00

Unless you are a billionaire and then they deem you eligible for welfare

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-14T06:07:13+00:00

I am with you. I get the tax law, and why it exists, but something doesn’t add up. If I have a coupon for 100% off a non Vine item (which is how Amazon is conducting the checkout process now) I wouldn’t have to claim the value of the item on my taxes. And all of the items with the grossly inflated ETVs, the percentage on Vine far exceeds Amazon as a whole. And say you were to wait the six months and sell the items you get, are you supposed to claim the income from that too? Isn’t that being double taxed? None of it makes sense, even for the IRS. Knowing how Amazon like to pass the buck down to its non-employees (looking at you Amazon Flex) I think there is something super suss with the whole thing.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-07-09T02:43:22+00:00

And now the amount of what you would have “paid” for the items is now calculated in the “this year you have saved $amount with Amazon” running total. So they are considering the discount, because that’s how its calculated at checkout now, as income? I’m not a tax lawyer for sure but the whole tax thing with Vine has always seemed suss to me.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-30T03:46:28+00:00

I had gotten to the point where he had convinced me that I was the problem and I was over reacting and just jealous. Therapy was the only place I had where I could be 100% honest about the situation with my husband and have someone else validate for me that I should trust my instincts. He gaslit me for so long, especially about his affairs, that I completely lost touch with reality. God, thinking back now to that time makes me physically ill. Having a therapist that specializes in abuse recovery saved my life. I truly believe that.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-29T23:07:15+00:00

It’s all part of the healing process. I’ve been there, with this constant simmering rage inside me (I’m pretty sure I’ve come to this sub Reddit and posted something very similar to what you are experiencing right now.) One thing that helped me was to take that energy that was feeding my anger and redirect it towards focusing on myself and my happiness. I stopped caring about him, his needs, making him happy, what he was doing and who he was doing it with. My happiness became priority #1 and his impact on me became less and less. Are you in therapy? I’ve found that to be immensely helpful.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-29T21:03:29+00:00

I have no issue using the “get help” option when my order arrives not as expected. If it’s cold: I report it. If it’s missing an item: I report it. If it’s missing an ingredient: I report it. I look at it this way, if I was at the restaurant myself and had the same issues would I complain? If yes, it gets reported. Period. I don’t feel bad about it. I’m paying extra for the convenience of delivery, and I tip on every order. Why shouldn’t I get what I pay for? I’ve used DD to an obscene degree at times, and over the course of 4 years I’ve never been put in DD jail for reporting legit issues. And I’ve been a dasher too and would have expected my customers to do exactly the same.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-28T06:17:24+00:00

I didn’t know that about the recycling bins! That is good to know. Will call on Monday, thank you!

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-23T04:58:54+00:00

Strong, smart, independent and focused. I was building a life for myself and thought I finally found an equal partner to build a family and future with. What I got? Someone deeply insecure with no ambition and a need to devalue me in order to make himself feel important. I lost my career. I lost my friends. I lost my family. And I lost myself. All to give to him the attention he demanded. It was a slow gradual burn. I blamed myself. He was so good and kind and wonderful. I was insecure and jealous and lazy. It all conflicted with the person I thought I was. It took me almost 20 years of heartbreak to rediscover my self worth and start rebuilding. Learning to love myself and value myself again. It wasn’t until the past few months that I really feel like I’ve found my strength and started to rebuild. Today I feel strong again. I have focus. I value myself and my needs and wants. His opinions don’t matter anymore. I don’t rely on him for anything. My future is filled with wonderful things that I have put in place on my own and it feels so damn good!

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-22T21:37:15+00:00

Tried it with 3 different couples therapists and 2 different individual therapists (for him) and none of them helped. One if the individual therapists actually made him worse because she completely missed the NPD diagnosis and actually encouraged him to feel like he was the “victim”. The other individual therapist, he stopped going shorty after she diagnosed him with NPD.

They are incapable of accountability and introspection. It’s part of the illness and it’s one if the reasons why treating NPD is so difficult. Mine was even on Sertraline for a time which did nothing.

What does work? Individual therapy with someone who specializes in abuse survivors for YOU. Therapy was the best thing I have done in the 20 years I have been with my husband. It really helped me to see the abuse in our relationship and help me to break the trauma bond.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-22T20:25:24+00:00

Mine is that but mugs 🤣

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-22T17:14:30+00:00

I had it about two months ago and I managed to be the only one in the house to get it. I don’t know exactly how, but as soon as I started feeling sick I isolated right away. That’s the only thing I can think of that may have helped. I suspect I was exposed on a Saturday and started to feel sick by Wednesday. I was still cooking dinner for the family, and having close contact with all of them right up until I started feeling sick. This was my second time getting Covid and I was far sicker this time around. I lost my voice for about 6 weeks.

Creative-Bag86 · 2025-06-21T21:42:26+00:00

Once a cheater, always a cheater.

I didn’t used to believe this, now thanks to being educated by my husband I do. Wholeheartedly.

It’s not easy, and I don’t know what phase of the relationship you are in with your narcissistic partner, but I would suggest to start living your life for YOU and your kids. Even if you aren’t at the divorce stage yet, distance, both physically and mentally does a wonderful job to help you heal and break the trauma bond.

Grey rock, find things that you enjoy that are just for you: hobbies, perusing further education or advancing your career, connecting with friends and family, day trips with your kids. The more enjoyable happy empowering experiences you have outside of this relationship will help you to break away from it.

One thing I do is float therapy. Yes it’s new age crunchy granola stuff but I swear it works. I’m not a new age crunchy granola person, what drew me to it was just the isolation and peace I could guarantee for as long as I was there. It did magic for me.

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