[foodhackingbase] money issue - how to get access to our PayPal cash when the account is limited

[Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck]

Hi Ingo and all,
many thanks for reply, answers in the text as >>>

On 2014-06-04 18:13, Ingo Weidauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I maybe have two options to offer. :)
> 
> First Option:
> Is there is any (legal) chance that someone else can get the money in
> Ireland from the account with an authorization from you?
> My sister lives in Dublin. I could ask her if she would withdraw the
> money and send it to you via her bank account. But we have to check
> limitations from her side as well

>>> If I manage to transfer the money from my PayPal account to my bank 
>>> account in Ireland (AIB I believe) than I think in theory I can 
>>> authorize/do from abroad by phone call transfer of up to 1000 eu to 
>>> an account which is also AIB based. However I've very strong doubts 
>>> about that because the Irish banking system to my experience is very 
>>> bad (several years of being customer). I've called and tried before 
>>> to reactivate my online banking and stuff like that and each call 
>>> which was answered by different bank staff gave me different ways how 
>>> to sort the situation which were later on proven absolutely wrong by 
>>> another bank staff. After four or five calls I just gave up on my 
>>> account ...

> 
> Another option:
> Some friends of her work/worked (I currently do not know) for paypal  
> in Dublin.
> But I have to ask her.

>>> I think this is the way to go, if you can find someone who "you" know 
>>> in person who could pull the strings that would be lovely. As I said 
>>> before we should be clean concerning transfers, also it is now over 
>>> three months since they limited  the account so time limit for any 
>>> refunds etc. is over so they already know that they are safe and they 
>>> will not have to pay anyone from their pocket because of some fraud 
>>> etc. They just keep the money because it is handy and they can, 
>>> simple.

>>> Thanks Ingo and if you can check this out that would be great, I'll 
>>> try to see if I find some other way too, maybe doing one more phone 
>>> call to my bank ...

>>> Sincerely from Jeju, South Korea,

>>> Frantisek


> Sincerely,
> Ingo
> 
> 
> 
> Zitat von Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck <algoldor at foodhackingbase.org>:
> 
>> Hi to all,
>> I will try to be brief and short it is about our money. We have  
>> 365.75 EU on "my personal Paypal account" which is now limited  
>> because I've exceeded the legal limit allowed per person by EU  
>> legislation bla bla bla ... That happened during the last crowd  
>> sourcing campaign during our Food Hacking Tour Europe 2014 (we  
>> reached over 2000 eu happy :-)). I would like to know if there is  
>> anyone in our group who would know someone who could lift the  
>> limitation or who would know someone who knows someone ... I've  tried 
>> to lift the limitation by providing whatever details necessary   but 
>> because the bank account linked to PayPal is Irish one (as is  the 
>> PayPal account by the way), I can not do basically anything -  
>> changing residency, changing bank account etc. all prohibited. To  get 
>> hands on the money I would have to send them to the account to  
>> Ireland (if they allow even that) and as you guess I do not have  
>> access to it now from South Korea. For a complete picture I have  
>> tried to talk to the PayPal staff several times and no chance,  
>> changing/linking to one of my South Korea bank accounts, using my  
>> Korean Visa as prove of address, nothing matters as long as it is  not 
>> the billing address (which is the Irish one) etc. they keep the  
>> money. The only way which I see is either getting someone in  
>> hierarchy to remove the limitation (someone who we know) or make a  
>> public case of this, because honestly they are screwing us really  bad 
>> (and keeping the money of course). We did not have any issue  
>> concerning transfers etc. so we should be clean.
>> 
>> I'm personally very unhappy with this because I see it as enormous  
>> waste of time. I think that in the future someone else should be  
>> keeping the cash on the account (as I was suggesting already  before), 
>> someone who has nice sturdy business account and is more or  less 
>> resident in one location. I've to say that the previous  campaign 
>> where Marcel was the official receiver of funds worked nice  and 
>> smooth so that model worked great - but of course it was his  time and 
>> energy needed to keep the track on the flow.
>> 
>> Anyway if you know someone who could help us to take care about this  
>> please let me know I really would like to this sorted it makes me  
>> feel bad.
>> 
>> Sincerely from Jeju, South Korea,
>> 
>> Frantisek
>> 
>> -- Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>> 
>> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>> 
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>> 
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