Paypal is the devil

This is absolute bullshit. Plenty of places are collecting money for hurricane victims...Hannaford supermarkets have cups at the checkout, many large corporations are running fundraisers for Katrina victims...what the fuck is wrong with a website running a donation drive?

Like Paypal aren't big enough crooks, now they have to fuck shit up for Hurricane victims. Will somebody PLEASE come up with a decent alternative to Paypal so we can tell them to fuck off???

Paypal ties up Hurricane Katrina donations

On the morning of Sept. 3, Rich Kyanka set up a PayPal account to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims, with the intention of donating the money to the American Red Cross.

Kyanka runs the popular Something Awful web community, which is hosted in New Orleans, and donations came in quickly. Within nine hours, Something Awful readers had donated $27,695.41. Kyanka donated an additional $3,000 from his own pocket.

But just as Kyanka prepared to send the money to the Red Cross, the account was locked by PayPal, which launched an investigation into possible fraud.

This is not the only post-Katrina fund-raising account PayPal has locked. Members of the forums at dealmac also say a charity account was frozen.

Kyanka said he asked PayPal to donate the money directly from the account to the Red Cross.

However, PayPal declined, saying it has an exclusive charity relationship with United Way of America.

"I would have been happy if I could have donated money to the Red Cross but having people refund their money and go on this donation drive where nothing got accomplished, that didn't really make me happy," he said.

Kyanka said he could understand PayPal's concerns about fraud, but suggested that perhaps the company could have handled the situation differently.

"You've got to find a balance between assuming everyone is guilty and treating your customers with respect," he said.

HEY PAYPAL...