PayPal Shuts Down Accounts Using 7 Dollar Scripts Salespage Copy.

If you are using 7 Dollar Script and PayPal as your payment processor, please read this!

Recently, there was a stir in the internet marketing world over PayPal shutting down Jonathan Leger’s 7 Dollar Secrets site and several other $7 sites as well for ‘apparently" violating PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

And since I know that many of you are either promoting them as well or are running your own $7 promotions and sites, I wanted to make sure that you were at least aware of the issues. I want to make sure that you knew what you can do to prevent your PayPal account from being shut down.

It’s NOT the 7 dollar script that PayPal is shutting down. It is the salespage copy that they find it’s against PayPal’s AUP. PayPal has been shutting these accounts down has NOTHING to do with the 100% instant commissions being paid to affiliates immediately (Although, it IS also a violation of their AUP to pay split commissions instantly to different affiliates or to split a payment between you and an affiliate but this is NOT THE CASE).

The “so called reason” why PayPal is shutting down these sites:
Basically, PayPal is saying that when you advertise the fact that you will pay 100% instant commissions within the sales letter, or as a bonus, that this is the equivalent of selling a business opportunity that is not tied to the sale of a product. According to PayPal, that violates their AUP. They have therefore shut down these various accounts and despite protests, are not willing to reopen them.

PayPal mail to Jon Leger
“Your website, 7dollarsecrets, is considered to be Multi-Level Marketing because for $7.00 you are selling the script for the website and instructions. In return, the buyer can then create their own exact copy of your website. No other products are being sold and the only way for a person to succeed is to turn and resell the program to as many people as possible. This is considered Multi-Level Marketing”.

Advice: When you are making a sale, that sale must be tied to some product , whether physical or digital or it is often prohibited by law (In the US at least and in many other countries as well). Did you know that you can’t charge someone a fee to get the right to sell your products and earn a commission? I did not know either as I just found that out. It’s for that reason that PayPal prohibits it as well. PayPal is suggesting that when the price of a product is so nominal, that listing the 100% instant commissions as a bonus is essentially amounting to selling the business opportunity itself.

In most of the 7 dollar templates below the salespage, you will find this:

“P.P.P.S. If you purchase Your Product Name",  you can join our Affiliate program that pays 100% commission! That’s right, 100% Instant Commission! Paid directly to your Paypal Account. Whatever the price is at the time your referral purchases, you’ll get the whole amount deposited to your Paypal account. Remember, after buying you can turn around and resell this ”Your Product Name”(or with a link on your website). You can make that $7 back times 10, 100, or even 1000! You get the FULL $7 directly to your PayPal account for every sale, the instant it’s made. Instructions will be given after you purchase.”

Please remove it and reword it in such a way that PayPal don’t see it as an MLM product(even if it is not). You can word it this way as an example from Sidhale of 7 dollar forum:

“P.P.S. We also have an affiliate program that pays 100% commissions directly to your Paypal account for every one of our reports you sell. And payment is immediate.  No waiting till the end of the month for commission payments. All it takes is a mailing to your list or a link on your website. We take care of the rest! How many times you make your $7 back is totally up to you.”

Other reasons from other PayPal users that got ban:

In some other forum, some have suggested that the reason for PayPal’s decision was tied to sites that were requiring customers to opt-in to a list after their purchase transaction. Although that DOES violate PayPal’s AUP as well, that was NOT the reason why Jon’s sites have been affected.

Advice: You can have an opt-in after a sale if it is optional, but you cannot require someone to opt in after a sale in order to claim their purchase.  That is simply not allowed in PayPal’s AUP. If you are using the 7 dollar templates and using the same copy, please take it down and reword your sales copy before PayPal shuts you down too. Better be safe than sorry.

For more info and tips, please visit:

http://7dollarforum.com//YaBB.pl?num=1180640219/0

Hope that you are not effected by this. Thank the stars that I wasn’t one of them. I’m now rewording all my sales letters that gives out 100% commissions.

Good Luck!

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