In an attempt to deal with this issue, I manually looked at my PayPal subscribers by doing a search of my subscriptions in the PayPal system.
I'm sure I didn't find all the problem accounts, but I feel I got most of them.
I'm only dealing with 2,000+ subs. I couldn't imagine checking over more.
Some background ...
I started taking subscription payments before it was a feature in Threads. I'm still running 7.2, and haven't upgraded to the latest version yet, so I haven't seen how it handles subs. I do know that I'm going to have to do more manual work (such as entering expiration dates in profiles) when I finally do upgrade.
I realize probably not a lot of people are running paid forums, but I decided to in 2007. Mainly for two reasons:
1. I started to question how much time I spent moderating my site and dealing with those who posted garbage. Going to a paid site was a way to instantly weed out the troublemakers. Of course it also meant losing some good members, but it was a risk I decided to take.
2. Revenue
Considering how the economy -- and advertising -- has changed, I'm happy I did this. Ad dollars aren't as easy to come by any more.
