Another reason Pay Pal may need its own episode of 24

[cyrano]

Received this email from Black Phoenix yesterday:

Paypal has currently locked our account due to the name of the single note Iranian Galbanum. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.



Once Paypal is working again, please do not use the name Iranian Galbanum. If you wish to order it, just order Galbanum or Single Note Galbanum.

We apologize profusely for the inconvenience.

I infer this to mean that if we were still in the cold war, an etsy dealer who advertised their matryoshka as Russian nesting dolls would probably have to be shut down for security reasons.
It's a good thing we're not at war with SteamPunk.

Comments

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I saw their FB post about that! Utterly mind-boggling stupidity on PayPal's part.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain if it's stupidity or hubris. I keep seeing reports of their egregious overreach, and it would be easy to paint them as tin hatted pocket despots at this point. I've been waffling about doing business with them any more, but I am lazy and they have saturation.