07-10-2008, 06:40 PM
I didn't see if this warning has been posted before, but thought I'd pass it on.. There's a popular online payment service (starts with a "P" and ends with an "al") that went through another cigar forum I'm on and shut down some of our accounts because they think we were using their service to buy and sell cigars (which is a violation of their agreement). They shut down my account too and really they have no proof that I was involved in buying or selling cigars other than I said somewhere that I accepted that payment method. But there's no proof that anybody sent me any payment using that method. These guys are doing searches and taking a pretty liberal swing at anybody that even appears to be buying or selling tobacco products. One of the other forum's administrators told me that even when a sponsor paid for advertisement, this service shut down his account just because he was making a payment to a forum related to cigars. Also, my screen names on cigar forums have nothing to do with this company's online service. They obviously used their detective work to piece together circumstancial evidence that my account with them is the same person as my screen name. This is where your fees go- to hire people to track down tobacco sales like we are thugs. I don't know if I'll fight it- they're a rip off anyway. Just wanted to warn some others.
