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Belle Delphine, the woman who went viral in 2019 for selling jars of her bathwater, revealed earlier this month that the stunt netted her $90,000 in profits. In a thread on X, the adult content creator and model also explained that because of PayPal, the payment processing system she used for the sale, she never saw a penny of that money.
“PayPal, without any warning, closed my PayPal account and took the $90,000 I made from selling my bathwater,” Bela Delfina wrote.
Image: X/Belle Delphine
Now, according to a report of Business InsiderPayPal reversed that decision, with the company returning all proceeds from the bathwater bonanza to Belle Delphine five years later.
Mary-Belle Kirschner, known as Belle Delphine, is a content creator Known for trolling her large fan base. In 2019, she announced that she would sell the bathwater to her “thirsty gamer fans,” creating an instant viral sensation. The feat generated The agitation in articleswith some questions Who would buy something like that and why?, while others praised his business acumen in providing a product that people were eager to pay for. But, according to Kirschner, instead of making a $90,000 profit, she made a loss.
“Not only did I not make any money selling my bathwater, I actually lost money doing it,” she wrote on X.
According to PayPal current terms of service, the payment processor allows “US-only transactions for certain sexually oriented physical goods that are physically delivered to the customer” – which bathwater would apparently fall under. But Kirschner wrote that he apparently violated PayPal’s policies anyway and that each sale was counted as an individual violation is worth a $2,500 fine. She also explained that the money was not returned to its customers and that she shipped the product anyway, costing $11 per bottle to ship to the United States.
A PayPal spokesperson said Business Insider which ended its $2,500 penalty policy a year ago, but according to Kirschner, the money was only returned after she posted about it earlier this month.
“Which sucks, because what are all normal non-social media users supposed to do in this situation?” she said to Business Insider. “I followed all the normal protocols, got blocked and gave up.”
