I may as well laugh, since crying is so painful,...

OK, so Paypal decides to freeze my account, while in the meantime I am faced with the imeasurable inconvenience of having to order equipment from out of my own pocket. If that weren't enough, there weere unavoidable delays from items out of stock, trying to finaggle free shipping on orders, and trying to locate a lost peice of studio furniture on a skid the size of a refrigerator.

But one headache at a time please, It's not my desire to lay too musch on you at one time. The procedure to finally regain access to the funds in my brand new paypal account involved confirming my address, phone number, and that I am infact the owner of the bank account to which the paypal acount transfers funds to. The phone number and address proved to be the most difficult, as I had to speak with several supervisers, and send several copies of my phone bills to them. It got to the [point where I was faxing them so many documents that they gave me a separate number to send the documents to. The initial prognosis was that it would take roughly a week to sort it all out, I was skeptical and was proven rightly so. Two weeks later they were still not satisfied that my address as stated was in fact my address. two days after this started, a letter was supposed to have been sent to me, which would take up to  four days to arrive (hence, the weeks time required to sort things out). I was to take some sort of code that was on this letter and then enter it into a form on the paypal sight, and all my troubles would go away.

Hmmmph!

Yea, RIGHT!!!!!

Two weeks later the infamous letter was yet to arrive, and I was fighting with representatives and supervisors from Paypal twice a day. Every day except sundays, week after week. I finally, in a fit of frustration, taped together three copies of the clients fifteen page installation proposal (Paypal was requesting detailed information of  what exactly it was I was doing for the "client", to so wilingly just hand over ten thousand dollars to me), Three copies of the twelve page equipment list with detaled descriptions, as well as all the previous dosumentation I hadsent them including copies of my passport, credit card and banking statements, birth certificate, and phone bills. I proceeded to then spend the next two and a half hours faxing this in a continuous strip to Paypal's customer service department,....

TWICE

They approved my status as a legitimate business and unfroze my account (I am not making this up, seriously folks).

This was four weeks and five days later, oh and by the way. That letter sent to me from paypal that I was supposed to glean my precious secret number from which had the magical ability of confirming my ailing address? I would love to say that it never arrived, but that would not be true. It did in fact, arrive, at my mail box, two weeks after my account was released....

Next entry: "The story of the missing desk", followed by "the out of stock stuff"

Peace every one!