Dear Bertrand Fan,

We appreciate the fact that you chose PayPal to send and receive payments for your transactions.

However, after a recent review of your account, it has been determined that you are currently in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. The Policy prohibits the use of PayPal in the sale of obscene or sexually oriented goods or services. The complete Acceptable Use Policy addressing Mature Audiences can be found at the following URL:

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/use/index_frame-outside&ed=mature

In order to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy and avoid the limitation or closure of your account, you will need to:

1. Remove PayPal as a payment option, as well as all references to PayPal,
including the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart, from your website(s) and/or auction(s), http://www.bertrandom.com/index.php?node=2700; and

2. Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive review or list of your Internet sites in violation. Furthermore, the violations of the Policy described above are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that all transactions comply with the
Acceptable Use Policy.

For more information about the status of your account, please log in to your PayPal account.

We encourage you to login and return your account to good standing as soon as possible. Failure to respond by 4/9/05 will result in the further escalation of this issue.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at paypal-compliance@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department PayPal, an eBay Company PayPal Email ID PP522

So I got this e-mail this morning and was puzzled at first, until I followed the link to my website where apparently I was trying to use paypal to facilitate a masturbation contest. I'd like to state, for the record, that I am no longer trying to use paypal to facilitate a masturbation contest, have removed paypal links and name from said masturbation contest link, and am thus in compliance with the Mature Audiences portion of the Acceptable Use Policy. Also, the contest never happened because everybody was too busy having sex with their significant others.

This being said, I don't think they gave this issue proper thought. If you google "paypal masturbation" right now, the masturbation contest is the third link, so it's not really a question how they found it. I think the question is, did they read it and actually think about it? The whole point of the masturbation contest was the lack of masturbating, so really we were selling the absence of sexually oriented services, which is actually in compliance with the Acceptable Use Policy. But I'm not going to argue with them about it, since my Paypal account is rather important to me. Please refrain from mentioning paypal in the masturbation contest topic, as well as linking to this topic from that one. Thanks!

can I still LMAO or is that not retro yet?

Dude, that's so 1996.

thbis site is now number one for "Paypal Masterbation" on google, It is actually shown higher than Paypal's Acceptable Use policy.

Does that mean this site supercedes the policy?