Paypal has saved my ass many times from fraudsters and rougue sellers. They also provide a handy landline number to call and are main reason i can buy things from around the world on ebay and the web without fear.

Google Checkout on the other hand provides no dispute resolution and only supports fraudulent merchants. It is good Paypal blocked what the computer saw as suspicious behaviour and a single phone call to paypal may rectify the situation

... if your name happens to be Tess Elliott, that is.

I have been reading about bugs like this in PayPal for years, and am very disturbed that they continue to do this account freezing without any real-world way for the aggrieved parties to talk to ANYONE. It happens to small businesses and usually due to PayPal's strange filters against fraudulent activity. Human beings, not software, should be doing that, and phone calls made. This makes me very much not want to use PayPal for the estore I plan to open. They don't seem to fix anything fast either.