This sort of thing has happened after customers complained about being forced to opt-in to a list after they'd already paid for a product.

PayPal removed the restrictions after the person called and explained the program.

I'm just speculating, of course, that this could have something to do with a complaint about a forced opt-in.

But because account restrictions have resulted from forced opt-ins, a good number of 7 Secrets users make the form optional on the Squeeze page.

Are you selling your own products or acting as an affiliate?

Patrick

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

Patrick

khoward:

Have you tried calling them, as opposed to email? You might get a quicker result that way.

The $7 Secrets script does NOT create a multitier marketing program; it is a simple sales program.

It's important to communicate with PayPal personally.

Patrick

That is indeed strange.

It would seem that it would be in PayPal's interest to speak to you over the phone.

OK. Sorry. Have to ask this: Are you 100 percent sure you're dealing with PayPal and not a phisher?

Did the email directed at you include your name? Were there any misspellings or curious phrases?

I'm asking because there have been some exceptionally well-masked phishing scams lately.

What's truly strange in this case is the reference to $7 Secrets, especially since you're not selling $7 Secrets.

Patrick

I'm going to cover a lot so please bere w/ me...

1. Did you login to your PayPal account by typing the URL? If not, do it. If it's limited, it will say so inside the account.

2. Johns site is still taking payments. If they use him as an example, which I can't see them doing for legal reasons, then his account should also be limited.

3. If it's because of the MLM/Get Rich clause, then are you sure that you are selling a PRODUCT and NOT an opportunity? In your sales letter, how much are you mentioning the the opportunity? In mine, I do it as a PS and I am very vague. I don't mention 100% commission anywhere.

4. I was limited for the MLM/Get Rich because I was selling resell rights. After talking to PayPal They removed the limit and approved me doing it. I had to fight with them though.

Here is what I did:
A: Emailed and received "decision is final" reply - twice
B: Called them and as each person got on the phone, I simply said, "put your supervisor on the phone" and nothing else. Then after a few people, I finally asked for "account escaletions". When this person was on the phone, I started by saying, "I am trying to get this resolved before I get my attorney involved. I then told about the products and pointed out EACH classification PayPal uses to determine MLM/Get Rich. And said my products do not fall in any of these categories. He said it was "iffy" and I replied for it to be a "Get Rich Quick" the product must focus on the opportunity and not have a real value - according to PayPal guidelines and I then pointed out for them to determine if my products had no value, they would need to actually look at them which they didn't. This person then looked at my acocunt history said I only had a few complaints and I delt w/ all of them in 24 hours. He told me to email aup one final time repeating what I told him. I did (including the attorney bit) and a few hours later, I received an email from PayPal saying my site was "OK" and that they closed it by mistake.

JFYI: If you are running a closed affiliate program, you are more than likely breaking the law if you advertise it as a benefit. (I forget the name of the law but you can Google it.)

Lastely, my suggestion is to not even mention the opportunity and to not build-up $$$ at any point.

Just to clear it up, I am not being phised.  I talked to Paypal on the phone and they confirmed that my account was on a limited status and then told me to email their abuse team. 

Anyway, I am moving my sites to Clickbank to avoid this problem from happening again.  I would warn others using this script to be careful and have a back up plan ready.  I have talked to several others who have had the same issues and also moved to Clickbank.

wow...that could very easily become a big problem if you are using paypal as your main source of income to live on.  this seems like something that john could probably clear up with paypal in some way since he is "the man" with all of this. if they ever decided to crack down in some way it could hurt a lot of us. or at least cost everyone a lot of money untill it got cleared up.  some of these products are really not suitable for clickbank and are specifically created to be $7 offers. moving to cb for many of these would be the end of some other wise very nice products i would think. just my 2 cents