They only ask you to fill in that business information on existing accounts if your activity goes over £1000 within that year as they have a £1600 fixed maximum you are allowed to deal for a whole year without the business details. They say it is to prevent money laundering but that is stupid when the EU law is near to £5000.

And I have to agree that that form you have to fill in is very confusing and not clear at all what to do if you are an individual and not a business. It had me stumped for a while too. And I did end up selecting the services other option as you eventually did.

Paypal is a very easy and convenient online payment service, but it is a nightmare when you need to change any details or settings. I forget what it was for, but I had an email from them last year asking me to update or change something and I could not find where to access and edit the information. And their FAQ files pointed me to an out of date url that no longer existed. Nice!