PayPal has had many, many issues over the years. Google for “PayPal sucks” and you’ll find a plethora of horror stories where the company has frozen funds, frozen whole accounts, and worse. Unfortunately, PayPal is also very popular when it comes to Internet sales. After a dispute with a buyer, one unfortunate seller found out PayPal’s policy on disputes may require the item in question to be destroyed. That sounds like a bad policy no matter what, but it’s particularly egregious when the item is a decades-old violin:
Great work, PayPal.