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Elizabeth Warren and Me (Amazing True Story of How a Freeper Gave PayPal a Kickstart)
Washington Examiner ^ | October 1, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/01/2010 7:20:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Elizabeth Warren was recently handed yet another expensive bureaucracy to lead (although not formally so as to avoid an embarrassing Senate confirmation) in the form of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. You might as well take the $500+ million this will cost the taxpayers each year, pile it up, and torch it for all the good it will ultimately do. As was the case with TARP, the Obama Stimulus that stimulated nothing productive, and a host of other costly programs, this latest bureaucratic incarnation is likely to do little for the public.

It is my contention that your humble correspondent has done vastly more to help the average consumer (at no cost to the taxpayers) than Elizabeth Warren can ever dream of doing from high atop her academic ivory tower. Yes, you read that right. Let me explain...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ebay; elizabethwarren; paypal
The amazing but TRUE story of how YOURS TRULY inspired PayPal to ditch its emphasis on "beaming" restaurant payments via palm pilots to successfully focusing on eBay auctions.

Oh, and I humbly submit that, as a result, I did more for the consumer (at much less cost) than Elizabeth Warren can ever hope to do.

1 posted on 10/01/2010 7:20:18 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Charles Henrickson; bcsco

I bet you guys didn’t know this about ol’ PJ.


2 posted on 10/01/2010 7:21:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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Bump for tomorrow...


3 posted on 10/01/2010 7:22:29 PM PDT by bcsco (Karl Rove, from Magnificent Bastard to Malignant Bastard in one day...)
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To: PJ-Comix
even my own brand of hair ointment (PJ's Dry Hair Treatment)

GRIN

4 posted on 10/01/2010 7:33:37 PM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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To: PJ-Comix

Any compensation for this? Please don’t tell me they gave you coupons instead of cash....


5 posted on 10/01/2010 7:34:46 PM PDT by GQuagmire (Hey now!)
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To: GQuagmire

Har!


6 posted on 10/01/2010 7:35:55 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: GQuagmire
Any compensation for this? Please don’t tell me they gave you coupons instead of cash....

No coupons. They lifted the limit for me on how many referrals I could get compensated for. That was it.

7 posted on 10/01/2010 7:37:21 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Cingrats, Did they at least give you a bonus?


8 posted on 10/01/2010 7:37:40 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: PJ-Comix

Souds like you got the short end of the stick...


9 posted on 10/01/2010 7:38:40 PM PDT by GQuagmire (Hey now!)
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To: Drango

That Dry Hair Treatment is actually the BEST treatment for dry hair out there. Emu oil. Prevents bad hair days for days at a time. I was once in a situation where I was unable to access a shower for 4 days and my hair was still fine after all that time. Unfortunately, a lot of folks have a problem with putting “bird oil” in their hair so I am now the only one using it. And the bottles do say “PJ’s Dry Hair Treatment.”


10 posted on 10/01/2010 7:40:29 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: GQuagmire
Souds like you got the short end of the stick...

Maybe but back then I was just anxious to use PayPal in auctions and collecting referral fees that I didn't think in those terms.

11 posted on 10/01/2010 7:42:10 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: GQuagmire

With Elizabeth Warren the taxpayers will be getting the short end of the stick.


12 posted on 10/01/2010 7:46:19 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix
So you're saying you are more influential than Warren?
13 posted on 10/01/2010 8:09:07 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

Not more influential but I sure did a lot more in the long run for the consumer than her. That wasn’t my intention but that is how it turned out.


14 posted on 10/01/2010 8:23:10 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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To: PJ-Comix

Interesting.


15 posted on 10/01/2010 9:03:19 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: PJ-Comix

You are an AMAZING person, PJ.


16 posted on 10/01/2010 9:51:32 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, thank you for your ingenuity. Perhaps you should start your own consulting firm.


17 posted on 10/02/2010 12:39:48 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: TheThinker
Perhaps you should start your own consulting firm.

The first thing I would do is consult fast food companies to add a certain food to their menu. It would be a HUGE hit for sure in places like the midwest...after a name change.

18 posted on 10/02/2010 5:32:28 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (The Coupon Whisperer)
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