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I've worked around this in the past by changing my e-mail address in my current paypal account, and then just creating a new account. (and then deleting my previous, now useless account). The limit is large enough that I so far have only needed to do this once. (I don't trust paypal enough to link it to an actual bank account).


My account was restricted once and I ran through all the paperwork - faxing my id, my credit card statments (unbelievable) talking to a csr and it was still deemed I was somehow in the wrong. After all that I deleted my account and just created a new one - when the truth doesn't work lie.


This would make sense if your account doesn't have any more money. But it may happen to you some day that you have more money in your account than your limit and then you will be stuck as you cannot transfer it to another account.


I never have any money in the account. I only use it to make credit card purchases.


This is clever, but likely an easy way to get perma-banned from PayPal, as they run checks for unusual behavior to detect fraud.

And even if they didn't notice, they will if your account is ever under review.


This is a good idea.

Ridiculous. But a good idea.




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