Anti-liberal said:
That was a leak in the system which they'll stop. Will it be proof enough for you if they stop peer-to-peer transfers for American customers so they can't send it to Canadians who can pull the money down?
They may have already done this...I had a couple of guys send me peer to peer transfers in the past week or two. When I tried to withdraw them to my debit card they declined it, and the only explanation they give is that "they won't allow debit card withdrawals due to the source" and that due to their client privacy they can't tell me more. The helpfully offered to reverse the original transfer and send it back to the sender, which I declined. Other than that, they suggested that I check with the sender about the nature of the transfer problem.
I can't get a straight answer from one guy about his transfer, but the other guy I trust implictly. He's not in the US and says that the money he sent me came straight from a book to his account before being sent to me. It's not enough money for him to lie about, and he actually sent it to me via PayPal (which I sent back since it ain't his fault that Neteller won't let me at the look).
At this point its only a few hundred bucks and I'm not going to lose too much sleep over it, particularly in light of the balances a lot of others have there. Still, it chaps my ass that I can't get it out--now I'm faced with the option of requesting a check/EFT that probably won't show up, sending it back to the original senders (at least the non-US client might actually see the money), finding one of the seemingly non-existant "non gambling" merchants and spending it there, or--the most likely scenario--just eating it.....
