PayPal's evil ways predate that acquisition. My own bad experience happened before it was owned by eBay. It was the usual - arbitrary freezing of account due to unspecified suspicious activity that they would provide no response about and was going to take six months to resolve. I eventually got my funds out and never kept a balance there again.

The "PayPal mafia" is such an ironically apt title for the group that founded it. So proud of their anti-fraud tech which is actually horrid - just sweep up anyone's account for whatever reason and call it successful fraud prevention.