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There are certain problems inherent in any kind of account that involves credit card type money transfers. Often the systems are stacked in favor of anyone who makes an a complaint against the receiver of the funds. Merchants funds are also in significant danger if any kind of fraudulent credit card transfer is made to the merchant. There are stories that many of the electronic services like PayPal have frozen entire accounts because of the receipt of a single fraudulent transaction. They will also freeze accounts for any kind of access, even if by the owner of the account, from foreign countries that they do not allow to open accounts. Your account in good standing for many years could be frozen if you log on to try to do a transaction to it from a country, where that country is not on their list of countries allowed to open accounts.
Merchant accounts, and also paypal accounts, have draconian terms that allow the the provider of the account to reach into your linked checking accounts, and credit cards, and take back money they've given you, and even take back extra money for any kind of service charge or penalty they decide to levy. To get the account, you must agree to these kinds of terms.
And if they in their own judgement feel it is neccessary, extract money from your accounts it is possible that it can happen without any advance notice. In the case of Paypal, they can reach into your credit card accounts, and either paypal or merchant accounts can grab money from any linked checking accounts.
If you are contemplating opening a merchant account, or a paypal account, you really should take the time to thoroughly read the contract terms. Especially in the case of electronic services like Paypal, where there is not a lot of case law, and their agreement is said to claim to have you agree to forego certain consumer protection laws, you should study the agreement carefully. And if you already have a merchant account, or a pay pal account, you should periodically review your agreement. The electronic services are able to change their agreements at any time, and usually they will claim that your continued use of the service after a change means that you automatically agree to any changes, whether or not you paid attention to any notification about changes to the term of service.
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