Within minutes PayPal had frozen the Canna Zine account, making it not only impossible to receive payments, but also denying us access to the account to remove any funds which may have been in there.
Although as the shop had only been open 24 hours suffice to say there was nothing in there, but thats not the point right? I know of a number of online vendors who have had literally thousands of pounds of hard earned revenue, essentially "stolen" from them by PayPal.
Yeah yeah ok, so they get their money back....eventually, but thats hardly the point.
Who the f*ck is PayPal?
Why should a private company be able to freeze the accounts of a small business for 3 months? A business which is paying taxes and abiding by the laws of the land it operates in no less. I tell you it is beyond me.
Yesterday (March 1st) the Canna Zine published a story to Google News which went on to explain the hypocrisy of this paypal/ebay situation.
So we're not allowed to sell cannabis seeds using paypal as a payments option right? But what we can do, is buy pirated software!
Thats right, the Canna Zine found a couple of websites which offered illegal "Warez" - software packages which have been hacked and pirated, and those websites accepted PayPal as a payment option and we felt it was our duty to let people know about this.
In the interests of fair play we even wrote to PayPal and told them about it too, just prior to us telling the Business Software Alliance (BSA) that PayPal were actually financing software piracy.
Its a fair bet this isn't over by a stretch and rest assured we'll keep you informed as things progress, but in the meantime, for those of you who have waitid patiently for the Canna Zine seed shop to get up and running the day has finally arrived.
Your credit card details will be kept safe and secure behind out secure (https) server and your seeds will be despatched under plain cover for your security.
I hope to see you there.
Original Cheese by Big Buddha
Cheese is a unique strain, until now, available as clone form only. Like many cannabis strains the history and origins of Cheese are somewhat confused and distorted. Cheese originated in 1988-89 as one unique female phenotype out of packet of Sensi Seeds Skunk No. 1 grown somewhere in the Chiltern Hills. This one plant produced impressively large buds and had a very distinctive cheesy odour. It was quickly cloned and named Cheese. Around 1995 a Cheese clone was passed on to Exodus, an alternative community living in Haz Hall on the edges of Luton. Exodus organised free parties, championed the legalisation of cannabis, grew cannabis themselves and protected each other from the law. They also started CANABIS (Campaign Against Narcotic Abuse Because of Ignorance in Society). Because of all the people that passed through the Exodus community many clones were handed out to visitors and the strain continued to grow in notoriety. For many years Cheese has passed around an underground network of growers in the UK, helped by Exodus and others, until one clone came into the hands of the Big Buddha. The Big Buddha realised its importance and set about crossing the clone with a suitable father. This he found in a traditional landrace, pure-bred Afghani that a friend had brought back from Afghanistan during travels in that area. The result is a strain that takes 8 – 10 weeks to flower and is consistently a much better yielder than the original Cheese, and flavour and taste is well preserved. Appealing fruity fresh smell, uplifting effect, highly pungent hence its name! Buy CHEESE from the Canna Zine shop . |
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