I have a IKEA Vindstyrka running in my Home Assistant, which reports PM2.5 and a proprietary VOC value from the sensor manufacturer. For 40€ + ZigBee / HA Setup quite reasonable as well.
I opened a business PayPal account, and it was closed within the first 2 minutes of opening. There was no reason given, and I had provided all details necessary during sign-up. I still get promotional mails until now.
Same, I got the ban email before I was even done setting up the account:
> After a review, we decided to permanently limit your account as we found potential risk associated with it.
> You'll not be able to conduct any further business using PayPal.
> Based on this decision, if applicable, you are no longer eligible for PayPal Seller Protection as per our User Agreement. You'll also be charged a High Volume Dispute fee based on your activity for all existing and future cases you receive.
> Any bank or credit card information that's linked to your PayPal account cannot be removed nor can it be added to another account. You can still log in and see your account information but you can't send or receive money.
> If you have funds in your PayPal balance, we'll hold it for up to 180 days. After that period, we'll email you with information on how to access your funds.
> We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
No contact address, no escalation path, only vague rumors on internet forums of voodoo to get the ban lifted by the Paypal gods.
They continue to send me daily emails telling me to link my bank account. Okay!
And then a day or two later I get another email
> My name is YYYY and I work on the PayPal Business team. I am more than happy to assist you with your PayPal onboarding journey.
> So I understand the nature of your request. Could you please provide me with some additional insight to your business by answering the below questions.
And a bunch of generic business area questions (what do you sell, what's your volume, etc). Are you kidding? You open by telling a fellow to get stuffed, then talk about journeys and assisting them?
I was also surprised when I saw it. A GbR is a German "Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts" which does not need to be formally incorporated and offers no limited liability. The name needs to include the names of all partners, so we can deduce it is being run by two persons. I am quite surprised they do this without liability protection. Upon googling, I found only a playlist on YouTube which has this name and contains one explainer video about signing up a company with German tax authorities.
If they are indeed based in Germany, they're required to have an Impressum / imprint on their home-page, without it, they risk being fined.
Very cool. I just checked your site after some time and happily saw that my city is now supported. Upon checking in the API, it's using the unofficial GBFS feed that a couple friends and I are hosting (which we're also earning 0€ from).
We built our own GBFS GraphQL abstraction called gbfsQL [1] a couple years ago that makes working with GBFS less difficult.
Thanks for replying and for providing feeds much on the same philosophy as citybikes. I guess the feed you mention is for Aachen [1]? Sometimes I take a very hands-off approach on the library contributions, so I do not know about specifics. At the moment our gbfs feeds come with a 'gbfs_href' field mentioning the source. Is there any way on which I can give more credit to the work you are doing? It would suck for our project to perpetuate the same kind of damage we receive from other projects, so this is important to me.
Honestly, I am just happy that someone is using the GBFS feed. We built it for and are using it on Openvelo [0] which I don't think many people use. The purpose was never to somehow be rewarded, but to make working with this kind of data in our city easier.
I suggest adding the hacktobefest label to issues you'd like to see tackled. Many people search for `label:hacktoberfest language:Rust is:open` or the likes to find projects to contribute to. I have not found a way to search for repos with a repo-tag yet.
