Frozen Waffles

Paypal has frozen the account of Waffles.fm citing "unusual/high-risk activity".

Having recently been through something very similar with the SaveOiNK.com fund we know what this is like.

The Waffles admins will have to jump through many hoops, make a lot of phone calls, and if they don't already have one; buy a fax machine.

This couldn't have come at a worse time for Waffles. With LeaseWeb forcing all torrent trackers off their network with a deadline of December 1st, time is swiftly running out to arrange alternate hosting.

In a risky move, one of the site admins is taking the full hit of the replacement sever on his credit card. In the mean-time they've set up alternative donation arrangements with Amazon.

I'm certain Douglas Adams wrote the following with Paypal in mind:

Vogons. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found again, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry to you.

Let's hope What's Paypal account isn't soon to suffer the same fate.