<story><title>We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business</title><url>https://blog.niteo.co/paypal-ban-after-12-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sincerely</author><text>You get banned from Uber if you do that, no?</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>&amp;gt; Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There&amp;#x27;s literally nobody you can call about it.&lt;p&gt;Your bank. You dispute the charge. Uber can deal with your bank. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter it was a debit card. It means you&amp;#x27;re missing the money immediately, but doesn&amp;#x27;t stop you from disputing.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The lack of customer service in the Silicon Valley is a pervasive problem.&lt;p&gt;* Cody Don on YouTube teaches the masses about science and regularly gets banned. His videos are rated G to PG. Despite millions of viewers and dollars of Revenue, there is nobody he can call.&lt;p&gt;* Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There&amp;#x27;s literally nobody you can call about it.&lt;p&gt;* Lose your Instagram&amp;#x2F;Twitter&amp;#x2F;Gmail? Too bad, because it&amp;#x27;s free, you&amp;#x27;re treated as cattle.&lt;p&gt;* Oh then there&amp;#x27;s the paying customers too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17431609&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17431609&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s the second comment in two days I&amp;#x27;ve seen along the lines of &amp;quot;You can&amp;#x27;t risk pissing off Uber because they might ban you.&amp;quot; What a sad codependent relationship to be [ADDED: or feel you are] so locked into some uncaring tech service that you feel you basically have to just put up with whatever mistreatment they dish out.</text></comment>
<story><title>We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business</title><url>https://blog.niteo.co/paypal-ban-after-12-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sincerely</author><text>You get banned from Uber if you do that, no?</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>&amp;gt; Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There&amp;#x27;s literally nobody you can call about it.&lt;p&gt;Your bank. You dispute the charge. Uber can deal with your bank. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter it was a debit card. It means you&amp;#x27;re missing the money immediately, but doesn&amp;#x27;t stop you from disputing.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The lack of customer service in the Silicon Valley is a pervasive problem.&lt;p&gt;* Cody Don on YouTube teaches the masses about science and regularly gets banned. His videos are rated G to PG. Despite millions of viewers and dollars of Revenue, there is nobody he can call.&lt;p&gt;* Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There&amp;#x27;s literally nobody you can call about it.&lt;p&gt;* Lose your Instagram&amp;#x2F;Twitter&amp;#x2F;Gmail? Too bad, because it&amp;#x27;s free, you&amp;#x27;re treated as cattle.&lt;p&gt;* Oh then there&amp;#x27;s the paying customers too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17431609&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=17431609&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkersten</author><text>Why would you want to stay on Uber? So they can charge you $1500 again sometime in the future?</text></comment>