WillyDmz

Thanks, but I would prefer to remain a bit anonymous until I can get this sorted out.

My goal with this thread is to try and get some connection to somebody at PayPal that can help me.

There was nothing obscene on the site, and in our FAQ, it was made clear that this wasn't a gay phone sex service. Regardless, the PayPal employee I spoke to agreed that it wasn't some obscene porno or sex service.

Hey, cool site. I'd prefer to remain a bit anonymous until I can sort this out though. Thanks.

My guess, as mentioned, is that some phrase on the site triggered some automated process that locked the account.

Is it related to orientation or do just the words "phone sex" trigger something? I have no idea how PayPal works internally.

I spoke with somebody on the phone, and they viewed the site and agreed that it wasn't pornographic, but their decision is final and can't be overturned.

I asked to speak to a manager. They said a manager would get back to me, but no response yet and I'm guessing they won't ever call me back.

It's inconvenient (not to mention a resource hog) to have another browser open most of the time.

I use Chrome for development. Then I confirm that everything is similar in Firefox, which it usually is.

Then I fix IE's numerous errors in every single version. Immediately after that, I restrain the urge to cry myself to sleep.

Well, to expand on that, a lot of people don't just use the shopping cart, but all of the combined stuff like payment processing, the CMS for adding in products, user accounts, built-in APIs and many other features.

I was involved with an ecommerce startup that built all of this from scratch to control everything legally and then sell it, and quite honestly, it is an absolutely incredible amount of work.

Usually, it is easier to find software that's already been written to meet your needs unless you're trying to create a unique value proposition in some way.

If you're building a standard e-commerce site, it might make sense to use some software package that's prebuilt with what you need.

Either way, if you think you can do it in 15 minutes and want to build it, have fun with it and do it yourself.

Regardless of what the law says, governments can and do take whatever they want, so that shouldn't dissuade anybody from making software free.

You can definitely write your own shopping cart if you want, its just that its a problem that so many businesses have solved before so you'd likely just be wasting time reinventing the wheel when you could be building up other aspects of your business, finding clients, marketing, etc.