After many years of small artists and labels complaining and asking for it they are finally kicking that useless bloodsucking crooked af plague known as paypal to the curb yay!

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/23020652077079-Setting-up-your-PayPal-account

 

Thanks for the heads up!

 

That's great news if I can stop losing money to Paypal. I'm more than happy to give the Paypal share to Bandcamp even. The worst thing about Paypal is that in my country, they got rid of the balance. So not only I need to wait for Bandcamp to transfer to Paypal, I also need to wait until Paypal transfers to my bank with their absolutely terrible exchange rates.

By the way, is anyone able to update their details? The link they provide just goes to an error page that says, "We regret to inform you that something odd happened."

Guess I'll be waiting for a while to get rid of it.

 

Bandcamp is amateur hour overpriced constraining leecher shite IMO, but, still I am extremely happy about this news!

PP has notoriously locked or banned accounts for no valid reasons and stolen money from millions of people around the world, including myself, when my account was issued their infamous automated "banned for life" just for checking my balance while on tour trying to confirm a show fee was paid! The customer service was a complete disaster. I was never able to recover that money. Unfookinbelievable these people. Paypal can do one!

Never had any such issues with Stripe on the other hand, and they also do crypto. Not that I will be using BC anytime soon, this bit of news made my day if not my week

 

Not trying to defend PayPal but I've seen this repeated so many times in so many communities and it's always people doing business on a personal account. And then they get mad once they get caught.

 

Nope. I had a proper business account with TIN's. 100% legit. My only recourse was small claims track in court, which would have cost me 10 times what they stole from me. They know this and don't give a shit about small fish. This isn't a unique or rare situation, anyone who tours or signed with international labels knows, should know or will soon find out, about it. Do a search and see for yourself the literal millions of people who've also been screwed over by these crooks. I only use Stripe + crypto now and never had any problems.

 

For me it's bad, Bank didn't see what was in my PayPal account until I made a money transfer to my Bank account, not good.

 

I still remember when PayPal was useful and fair with taxes...
Oh, wait. Not really, I don't remember that

 

A severe setback for the PayPal mafia broligarchs

 

Misinformation.

Spoiler: Stripe balance->can my bank see it?