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Posted by: darkzero.2197

darkzero.2197

Q:

Hello,

My fiances account was closed because of a paypal error. What happened is her paypal account had been compromised very briefly. During this period of time no charges were made and paypal automatically limited the account. After that notices were sent out to multiple sellers she had been dealing with (including NC Interactive) that her account is under investigation. We immediately cleared this up and authorized all payments made by paypal. It was at this point that paypal removed all temporary holds.

However about 10 days later paypal placed a reversal on a gem store purchase, causing her account to be permanently closed. Paypal told me over the phone that this happened because NC Interactive did not reply to the audit notice. So automatically the system reversed the payment (for our safety they claim) and they also claim no responsibility for the issue. Paypal has told us that in order to have the money sent back to NCSoft that we would need to have an invoice sent to us and we would have to accept it, therefor sending the $10 owed.

So far my support ticket has done nothing but notify us that because of an error on NCSofts part, the account will remain closed with no chance of it being reopened. As a player of the game since it released last august I think that this is completely unfair and I fail to see how this is a legitimate business practice. I can understand why there are certain policies in place that protects not only the business, but the employees of the company. But in this situation we are being punished because someone tried to steal her paypal, and neither side is willing to help us out. Even though we’ve called paypal multiple times to verify the authenticity of the charges. We’ve contacted support a couple of weeks ago to do the same. We even went as far as to call the NCSoft Fraud department, and have them mark the paypal transaction as authorized and legitimate.

So, now that I’ve typed my very long wall of text. How can we get her account back?

Thanks for your time, and sorry for the wall of text.

Ticket# 130710-001722

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Posted by: Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

A:

Because this was well over three days old, I was able to send this over yesterday evening. It was reviewed by the team, and they informed me that they did respond to PayPal’s inquiry. In fact, in addition to responding to PayPal they sent an e-mail to the GW2 account holder advising him/her that we had to place a block on the account because of the potential reversal. Having done that, the team then released the account predicated on the belief that the PayPal issue would be resolved by the account holder and PayPal.

However, a few days later, the reversal came through anyway, and the account was (as required) blocked again. What the team tells me — no offense intended here! — is that when that happens it usually points to a lack of follow-through on the customer’s end.

The good news is that the team has reviewed this issue and will be releasing the account. But please be sure that if this sort of situation arises again, the GW account holder follows every step to prevent account closure. Account reinstatement could not happen again, as I’m sure you appreciate.

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

It you want Gaile Gray to look at it, she should be back on the forum sometime Monday. Put your ticket number on your post so she look it up easily and see the details.

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Posted by: darkzero.2197

darkzero.2197

I forgot about that, thanks! edited post

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Posted by: darkzero.2197

darkzero.2197

Thank you very much Galie

My fiance really appreciates this news and she’s very happy about it. In the future we’ll make sure to double and triple check our steps if this ever happens again

edit: Got it back, thanks again

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