ae1th@, you mention this is the case with gift cards... I can see that as being a policy. Gift cards, while being great options, they have no real tracking ability especially on the internet. Many scammers out there are stealing money from people with fake IRS or whatever scams and are asking for payment in the form of gift cards. Some unsuspecting people and many of them being people that usually cant afford to lose money, fall for this scams and pay. And then there are the straight credit card frauds or theaves that go to stores and buy gift cards to convert it quickly and then use the gift card or sell the gift cards. Paypal caught onto this and probably made it a policy to not use gift cards. People can also quickly convert the gift cards to bitcoin via paypal payments and then they are clean and completely anonymous when purchasing. So, no more paypal as a gateway.... Price we need to pay for those that are bad out there.
