What just happened to accepting Paypal?? looks like they are trying to drive us away

You can add my name to the casualty list. Sold an item last week and the buyer couldn't get his Paypal payment through. I had to file a trouble ticket to find out that I had to add a merchant ID to my account. A few days later I tried to buy something. I couldn't make my Paypal payment go through. The seller is trying to check his merchant ID while I have opened another TT to get help. 
I feel sorry for the customer support people. If my experience is anywhere near typical, they're getting crushed.

I don’t have a business account with PayPal but noticed in my account settings that I have merchant account ID.  WTF!?!

Ok, so if I don't want PayPal merchant status  do I need to quit selling here?  Without PayPal,  it seems I will only be able to accept money orders as payment for stuff I sell here.  However, even money orders do not afford the same protections as PayPal did.  

There continue to be new listings here every day and even though there seems to be more business-sellers here than in the past, there are still private individuals using the site.  I wonder if all of them have accepted the merchant status or if they may have some of the problems reported here when they finally conduct their transactions?

I have a bunch of stuff to sell and was waiting until the end of summer to take advantage of the historically better fall sales environment.  I guess I will try something small to see how things go here without accepting PayPal as a payment method.  I will probably start listing at USAM since they have indicated their agreement with PayPal does not require folks to accept merchant status, however that might change....seems like maybe an opportunity for another PayPal-like entity to step.

Just follow the work around instructions that Agon gave. I did and it worked beautifully.  Took me 3 minutes.  All good.  

I went back and re-read the post below from Admin but I do not see any "work around" instructions. I also looked at the Audiogon "Safe Payment Methods" article that discusses PayPal and still nothing.  Can you point me to where I can find the work around instructions. Thanks