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I'm not blaming PayPal for this, I agree I was not aware of this ToS, I am just making the point that they are pushing away legitimate business because of this policy.

But I doubt you can call it unforgivable. You can't tell me you have read every single ToS to every single service you have signed up to in full and detail. PayPal makes it more clear on their signup about this these days but I signed up a few years ago. It wasn't as clearly spelt out.

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>But I doubt you can call it unforgivable. You can't tell me you have read every single ToS to every single service you have signed up to in full and detail.

As an individual? No. As a business, presumably an organization that has a lawyer on standby to translate the legalese? Yes.

You haven't run a small business before have you?

Actually yes. I consider having legal counsel part of the cost of doing business.

So you pay a few hundred dollars and wait a few days to a week every time you sign up to an online service such as Pay Pal for them to read over the terms and conditions. The same with any Microsoft, Google and Amazon accounts? Did you get them to check over the Microsoft license or Apple license before you loaded your operating system on a computer you use for business?

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