How do I close my Paypal account?

PayPal is great when it works. But when something happens out of the ordinary it turns into a huge nightmare. In reality they are a bunch of thugs. But just type PayPal sucks into Google and you will read about the thousands of people completely screwed by PayPal.

Basically PayPal has an attitude: Fx@# the customer. We are not regulated by any government, anywhere, so we can do what we want without repercussions. Remind me of doing business in Russia.

Paypal is a great service...I have been using it for years. Now could you be more specific on how PayPal can screw you up? (Not Vendor but PayPal, as you claim)

Sam, the issue that I'm aware of is if someone accuses you of having fraudulent transactions, the method of stating your case and trying to clear things up with Paypal is clumsy and since they often freeze accounts upon complaint, it's very much like "guilty until proven innocent" with a judge that's not paying attention. :-\

Couldnt close Paypal account, for updating country on address... I did it 5 times, still no use, It cycles, Close Account > Reason > Close Account :(

I had a fraudulent charge on my account and after searching all over for a phone # for them all I got was a recording that said leave a message we'll call you back..and they never did.when I tried to e-mail them they wanted me to give my credit card info,mothers maiden name and my ss number,just to dispute a charge?no way,after someone already hacked my account they want me to trust them with my ss number? I closed that account fast,thanks for your help

I hope nobody buys Dave a chai with a fraudulent PayPal account!

Just FIY.

Oooppps! I meant FYI. Oh well, I am sure these 2 comments will be well intentionally purged!

paypal have frozen my account because they have noticed some irregular activity.

So in light of this i feel the sensible thing to do is to remove all my bank details from paypal and close the account.

but because my account is frozen i cant close it, their phone service sucks and all my bank details are stuck on thei database waiting for ther next hacker to come along.

paypal sucks!

I recently had a meeting at Paypal's offices in Richmond...I work for a multi job poster and had to visit gumtree.com - thought Id get my account unfrozen whilst there. (Both owned by ebay). I found them to be very friendly people and a few hours after speaking with them all was sorted.

I like payal. I hate google checkout ;D

You can reach an agent by saying "agent" even though the automatic machine doesn't list agent.

PayPal take your money when it suits them. I have just had some whacko buy something from me on scumBay and claims it is faulty (more like he doesn't want it anymore) so PayPal take his money from my account BEFORE looking fully into the dispute. So, the whacko has my product and PayPal have my ca$h, how is that fair!? I just closed my scumBay account now my PayPal. This company has forgotten it's roots, we need a new player in this market without the extra affiliations with PayPal etc that can deliver the goods, and when that day comes I hope eBay share prices crash on Wall Street 'cos I will be smilin'....

Not Happy with paypal. Bought an items worth over hundreds of pounds andthey where all fake and paypal refused to refund my money. I need to close my account.

Hey Dave, wait until you experience your first problem with paypal... When they "lock" your account and YOUR money for weeks/months.

Then tell me how you like them. Paypal is the worst

Paypal stinks. Now Ebay is insisting that a person with less than a 100 feedback offer paypal on any items that person lists on ebay...with the possibility of the money being frozen for 21 days for 'verification' purposes. I've used Ebay for 9 years with a 100% positive 80 rating, but I'm not gonna use them any more - they just trying to drive more business to Paypal. Forget that!

Paypal isn't a bad service... it is an uncaring service run by a bunch of robotic procedures that 95% of the time work in the benefit of the consumer but 5% of the time don't.

When you run into someone who scams for a living and knows how the Paypal robots think, you will lose all your money and unless you can figure out how to file a suit, you won't get it back.

Out of 5288 transactions I had exactly 6 problems. 3 were decided in my favor (Yeah!) and 3 were resolved with an email stating that "your case is now closed". (booo!)

The total dollars I got screwed out of equaled approximately $3800 and the total dollars of transaction volume was approximately $1,200,000.

I think you can do the division and see that Paypal has some issues but it is mostly safe.

Ways to get screwed by Paypal:
1. Receive a box with a brick in it and try to charge back the merchandise. If UPS says they delivered it, you will lose your case.
2. Ship an item to a country outside the USA. A charge back from the card holder FOR ANY REASON will result in your money getting held for months.
3. Call customer service. They are useless.

Ways to get ahead with Paypal:
1. Don't leave your money in a Paypal account - have it linked to a bank account that you use ONLY for paypal. Transfer the money from this account to your real account after the deposit from paypal hits.
2. Ship bricks
3. Use the paypal credit card - this is your only way to get your fees reduced (they credit back 1% of your purchase price as cash). Since you will pay 3.6% on average with their virtual terminal, the 1% back potentially gets you to 2.6%. In reality, it probably winds up being 3% but it's still a help.
4. When you start selling more than $5k/month get a real merchant account (Total Merchant Services or Heartland seem to have great rates)

That's all!

I opened an account with pay pal a long while ago but didnt use it, I have chanced banks and therefor credit cards, When I went to use my paypal acct they couldnt use the new credit card number and I can not acess the paypal account as I can not remember my oil dcredit card number, How thw hell am i coing to close my old account and ope a new one without my old credit card number, # Thanks Micklefix.

i cannot access my acc i forgot my password and i do belive that my acc was hacked

How the heck do I close my acct. with paypal?

I didn't ask for an account and don't want one. Close my account.

3rd. party spoof e mail to, got a hold of my credit card numbers. Notified paypal. My account is frozen. Unable to close account and receive my money. I had to cancel my credit card, now they want a credit card number so i can get my money. This is a viscious cycle. They make it impossible to get your money for items you sold on e bay. I don't want to give them antmore credit card numbers, thats how i got in this situation to begin with. This is not a secure web site like they say it is.

Utterly useless. If your account's frozen, they don't let you access your account in the first place. I'm going to report them to the FSA.

I want to close the account but I want to open another because I forgot my password.I tried everything to retreive my password and couldnt.

My name is Tony A. Stroy,
I need my routing number and my Direct deposit number.

Thank you...

I closed my paypal account after financial loss problems. First problem, an ebay seller claiming to be in the USA. They shipped from Thailand and sent my item to the wrong country! I raised a dispute with paypal but because they had proof of shipping paypal decided in favor of the seller!

The second problem was the same. The US seller on ebay was in fact from India or Pakistan, and once again sent the item to the wrong country, and paypal decided in favour of the seller.

But when you want to leave paypal, how many times do you have so say 'I want to close my account'? Something like five or six times. Are you sure? Really sure? Would you like to talk to us about it (I guess you must need therapy if you want to leave paypal), you realize if you leave paypal (blah blah)...

Lets not talk about customer service....

i would like to close my paypal account because i signed into it one time and it refused to let me in my account considering the password and my email adress was right

your regards gareth kelton

one time my paypal was hacked and the hacker changed all the information. Before I tried to talk to them $200 were already stolen. After I called them and talked about that issue, they froze my account. Well then resolving of the issue took forever. Then when I got my account back after faxing my credit card, house address and all I got my account back. But the money which the hacker used to buy a hosting service from hostgator, I did not get it even though I tired it so much.

Atlast I was tired of their service but helpless and still using the same account after changing every thing on the site. I am right now waiting for a service which will atleast gives a competition to them so that I can shift everything.

This procedure to close a pay pal account is no longer valid. This is what I get when trying to close the account:

Before you may withdraw funds by check you must confirm a non-P.O. Box address. You can confirm your address and request a check immediately by adding a confirmed address. Alternately, you can have funds directly transferred to you by adding a bank account.

Your account cannot be closed at this time.

The whole reason I want to close my account is that Pay Pal won't let me spend or withdraw MY money. I don't have a bank account or credit card and even if I did, I would not trust Pay Pal with that info because of past experiences with them plus hundreds of thousands of other people with similar complaints.
Four calls to Pay Pal offshore call centers asking for help closing the account, in all four cases the Pay Pal operator HUNG UP ON ME.
Maybe I'll contact law enforcement and report a theft.

In the meantime can you please update this procedure so that it is current?

Paypal sucks they froze my account for some reason and now I cant acceess my money. Tried to ring customer service but its automated.
The worst company on earth.
Imagine this is how the future will be, you wont be able to trade unless you belong to an organasation like this!!

How do i close my paypall account when they wont even let me in i got ripped by them a while back i sold an item on ebay i kept it for the buyer six weeks after he paid through paypall when i asked him not too he come to pick item up and he said its bigger than i thought i dont want it now i will get my money back i said no you cant i held it for six weeks he said i will get a reversal refund through paypall which he did i sent paypall 8 emails telling the truth he just lied so much not one return email from paypall i emailed him and he said why do you think i pay through paypall so i can look at item if i dont like it i just get a reversal refund now paypall are chasing me for the money there is no way iam handing over any money to those crooks paypall need to be closed down for good

well i just sold something on ebay a few days ago and i have over 230 feed back i put on my description i dont use paypall after a few days ebay takes my item off i already had 23 watchers i get an email saying that i haved to use paypall as a payment option i emailed them back and said the law states i do not have to use paypall to sell on ebay i only have to use them as a payment option i can put direct deposit cash on pick up or money order they emailed back and said they would suspend my account with ebay if i said the wrong thing again ebay are crooks like paypall

Hi I can give you some word of advice my cousin is one of the best iT people in the country he has been in to computers for 30 years or more he said there would be no way in the world would he give bank details to paypall as there are hundreds of hackers waiting to get in to paypall and take your bank details beware you could lose everything.

hey i put in the wrong email adress an i orgot my pin how can i retriev my pin put in xtatique@mwed instead of xtatique@mweb what should i do

to much fraud from some sites and i want the last transaction canceled that was made today on2/9/2010

yes i want to close my paypal know it no help i forgot my password but it no help with paypal

We have to go out and protest against paypal,especially in this next general election,we need protection from paypal,they think they are above the law.they either put things right or they will be out of our country. go fish somewhere else where there is no law.
good luck paypal.
we sell cofee but sorry we dont accept paypal as way of payment.