Remember Belle Delphine, one of the most famous e-girls on the internet who went viral for, amongst other things, selling her bath water online? As it turns out, selling used bath water on the internet didn’t make her a millionaire overnight; on the contrary, PayPal froze the $90,000 she made doing it and refused to let her withdraw it.
In a recent tweet, Delphine wrote, “Since it’s been a couple years now I can finally share the biggest L I’ve ever taken. Not only did I not earn any money selling my bathwater, I in fact LOST money doing it. @PayPal without any warning closed my PayPal account and took the $90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater.
There was nothing I could do, I tried phoning them up and they just said ‘sorry, nothing we can do!’ I knew it would be a better news story to say that I made ‘sOoOo much money’ from selling my bathwater so I just kept this secret… Ultimately I’m still glad I did it since it was a really funny time on the internet when it happened, and I still did mail out all the bathwater people bought from me (which I did all by myself ) Sooo... fuck PayPal I guess?”
Delphine sold her bath water back in 2019, charging $30 for a bottle of “Gamer Girl Bath Water” and selling out within three days. Despite selling out, Delphine explains in her tweets that she lost money on the entire venture as she apparently broke one of PayPal’s terms of service, resulting in the site issuing her a $2,500 penalty for each infraction.
She told her followers, “So each payment of bathwater that went through was a break of ToS which resulted in -$2,500 every time without me realising. They wouldn’t tell me which PayPal rule I broke and they wouldn’t give me anymore information because of ‘security risk.’ So I don’t know if it’s because they don’t allow sex workers to use their platform or if they had a specific issue with me selling bathwater…”
PayPal, as well as other financial services like Venmo, doesn’t allow sex workers to use their platform for any transactions related to sex work; in fact, in the past, according to the ACLU, the site has “booted sex workers and other users off their platform with little due process.”
Here’s hoping her latest venture is a more profitable one: Delphine was recently selling a customized sex doll designed to look exactly like her to one lucky follower via her OnlyFans, complete with Delphine’s own clothing. She even comes with her own pink sparkly coffin. I definitely wouldn’t use PayPal to charge for it, though.
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