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Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Complaint
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>	20. juni 2025 kl. 10:15
Til: enquiry@paypal.com
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Hi,

from 2010 to 2014 I ran a web-shop (Posegodt) from the UK.

I had read on an online message-board that people in Norway missed a sweet (Isbre-mint) that had been discontinued in the shops in Norway.

And I knew that Fox's made a similar sweet/mint (Glacier Mints), so I thought I'd try to sell them (and also other bags of sweets-products) on a Norwegian web-site named QXL.

(I contacted Fox's Confectionery, and got advice about this.

They say I could just buy the sweets from cash and carry-shops).

But QXL had some strange rules/'red tape' (that people not living in Norway had to pay them a big deposit, to trade there).

But One.com sold web-shells and domain-name for £10 or something.

So I started my own web-shop, using osCommerce.

But osCommerce had back-doors.

My web-shop was hacked by Turkish hackers.

And I decided I'd just design my own web-shop, and then use PayPal as a payment-solution.

And I had to move the web-shop to an American shell-supplier (SpexHost) due to that One let someone hijack the webshop, so that a very nasty photo was what the customers saw, for a day or two (One were also slow with cleaning this up).

And after this again I had to move to Sunderland (due to a court in Liverpool making problems for me, in a dispute with my landlord (T. J. Thomas/Imperal Properties)).

And then I ended up on a hostel named Azalea Lodge.

And I had to move from there, after a while (for some vague reasons).

And a day or so before I moved, it was a letter for me there.

It was from PayPal.

It was a Visa-card that I hadn't ordered.

So this I have to complain about.

(That you sent me a Visa-card, that I hadn't ordered).

And in 2012, then a Norwegian TV-program (Tweet 4 Tweet) where making fun of my web-shop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msh6BQdG1ns

A rock-star (Thomas Seltzer, from the band Turbonegro) discussed my web-shop (and blog and memoir-books).

And he made a point of that one could pay by PayPal.

I wonder if Seltzer ridiculed both my web-shop and PayPal.

(A Norwegian newspaper wrote that this TV-program (Tweet 4 Tweet) was just for a small audience, in Oslo etc.

The TV-program was perhaps a bit too modern, for the rest of the country.

And I wonder if they meant to ridicule my web-shop.

And the TV-channel (NRK, who are government-owned) didn't tell me in advance, that they were going to talk about me, on TV.

So I didn't get a chance to explain about the hackers, etc.

And the TV-host was Jenny Skavlan (niese of the well-known talk-show-host Fredrik Skavlan).

She was mostly known for being in a TV-commercial, trying to sell a frozen-pizza-brand named Grandiosa, from the company Orkla.

And I don't like the band Turboneger/Turbonegro.

So I didn't know who Thomas 'Happy Tom' Seltzer was.

But some of my blog-readers told me about the YouTube-link mentioned above).

And then I complained about this (that NRK ridiculed my web-shop (leading to lower sales etc.)).

And I was told (by Kringkastingsrådet's then leader) that NRK's legal-department had suggested that I should get 30.000 NOK i compensation, but the Kringkastingsrådet (NRK's own council, responding to viewer-complaints etc.) had decided against this.

So I was robbed.

And the compensation should be higher, since I'm now unemployed.

I have a degree in IT (from HiO IU now Oslo Met).

But I think this TV-program has destroyed my reputation (and also PayPal was ridiculed by Seltzer, it could seem, due to the way he mentioned the company-name, like in a loud way).

So I wanted to complain about that you sent me a Visa-card (in 2011/2012) that I hadn't ordered.

And I also wanted to inform about the mentioned TV-programme.

Regards,

Erik Ribsskog

PS.

Around 2013 a customer (but not a regular customer) asked me if Posegodt would accept Bitcoin.

Then I didn't know what to answer (I said if it becomes main-stream).

But I had really out-sourced the 'payment-stuff' to PayPal.

So I guess I should have asked you then, what I should reply to the customers, when they ask about this.

It could have possibly been an internet-troll (I've earlier mentioned the problems with hackers).

And I also got a strange order, for like 1000 bags of Glazier Mints.

But Fox's Confectionery had told me that a British company had the right to export pallets with Glacier Mints etc.

So this could possibly have been some people checking if I tried to compete with the whole-seller.

Something like this.

Thanks in advance for any reply!

PS 2.

Also later, Norway have stopped with De Minimis-rules (for consumers shopping from abroad) and started something called the VOEC-register.

And to do with this, they have put a high tax on sweets (like Glacier Mints).

It's like the earlier Prime Minister (Erna Solberg) have a vendetta against me.

Because almost all other product-groups (like clothes and toothbrush-heads for electric toothbrushes etc.) have no tax (other than Norwegian MVA/moms/VAT).

So this webshop wouldn't be feasible now (in the same way as it was around 2014) I think.

So it didn't really get a chance.

Because I didn't have that much money for marketing etc., when I ran this webshop (from 2010 til 2014).

Just something I though about.