Paypal classes events as high-risk transactions (as they require people to pay upfront often far in advance of the event) so you're at much more risk of being suspended if you breach their risk thresholds.
Imagine if you're a fraudster, you've knocked up a fake event and you've sold $10k-$20k in tickets, you could withdraw the money and disappear before the date of the event. Now Paypal are on the hook for the money, when they get creditcard charge-backs it comes out of Paypal's account and not the fraudsters.
Does anyone consider it reasonable that Paypal take this risk ? - the reason for the 90 day limit is that's the length of time most consumers have to request a credit card chargeback. Paypal is simply protecting themselves.
If you're engaged in high-risk transactions you're much better off going with a specialist provider (i.e Amiando or Eventbrite in this case) as they have risk fraud models designed to handle the specific risk factors.
Imagine if you're a fraudster, you've knocked up a fake event and you've sold $10k-$20k in tickets, you could withdraw the money and disappear before the date of the event. Now Paypal are on the hook for the money, when they get creditcard charge-backs it comes out of Paypal's account and not the fraudsters.
Does anyone consider it reasonable that Paypal take this risk ? - the reason for the 90 day limit is that's the length of time most consumers have to request a credit card chargeback. Paypal is simply protecting themselves.
If you're engaged in high-risk transactions you're much better off going with a specialist provider (i.e Amiando or Eventbrite in this case) as they have risk fraud models designed to handle the specific risk factors.