PayPal Europe Sarl & Cie, SCA

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-3685445 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Fri Oct 07deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Account closed or refused, Funds blocked or frozen

In the Ombudsman’s words

unfairly restricted and blocked the use of his accountAccount closed or refused

any money in the account, or later deposited into it, would be held for 180 daysFunds blocked or frozen

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-3685445.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.