As someone who has used Kickstarter for a successful crowdfunding project, PayPal is a complete joke.
Withholding funds from legitimate users by default is NOT the way to mitigate a POTENTIAL chargeback problem. I don't pretend to know what the best way is but introducing another layer of uncertainty to crowdfunding is just going to make people go elsewhere.
Amazon has none of these issues with their payment system. PayPal's stance strikes me as Ebay mentality from a long-gone era of the internet.
IndieGoGo and other crowdfunding services using PayPal would be wise to abandon them.
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