Is PayPal Losing It?

Complete Computer Services, Inc. ^ | December 2001 | Y. Goodman

[CommiesOut]

Hm... speechwriter for William Bennett.
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http://www.myprimetime.com/work/entrepreneur_toolkit/content/thiel/index.shtml

Prime Mover
Peter Thiel
Age: 33
Company: PayPal
Title: Co-founder, CEO
Launched: October 1999
Employees: 570
Revenue: $1 million a week and growing
Distinctions: National master in the U.S. Chess Federation, speechwriter for Secretary of Education William Bennett
Author, The Diversity Myth

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

This is what I got. This is a bunch of garbage. I lose the money tomorrow

Thank you for contacting PayPal.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. The PayPal system is so designed that it does not allow you to claim a payment that is sent to a misspelled or incorrect email address. Your ISP server may allow you to receive the notification but the funds will not settle in your PayPal Account. Please contact the sender and ask them to cancel the unclaimed transaction in their account and resend it to you, using the correctly spelled email address.

Please note that an email address that ends in a period, such as "silentbob@msn.com." has an extra period at the end of it, and will cause the funds to remain unclaimed. There should not be a period at the end of the email address.

We cannot change our security policy to allow the payments to be claimed at a wrong email address. We hope you understand our concern about the security measure.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again.

Sincerely, Susan PayPal Customer Service

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[struwwelpeter]

Aw the heck with it, let's all get drunk and play ping-pong!

[CommiesOut]

Say bubye to your greens... :(
earned the WH equivalent of a backstage pass

[CommiesOut]

Comrades, let's invest.
PayPal aims to raise $63.3 million in IPO

[dennisw]

thanks for putting me on your ping list a mixed blessing for sure.

[GROUCHOTWO]

PayPal? Frankly I think a little 'insider trading' pays off best, like dealing in the pre-911 puts and shorts. And if you know the right people the SEC will not bother you.

[jmp702]

This was "the story" which I felt had the most potential, post 9/11 for identifying those silent partners of the terrorists. Yet there is vitually nothing being reported or even investigated by the any of the media, big or small. Or have I missed it?

[Archaeus]

Three alternatives to PayPal:

1. Money order
2. Money order
3. Money order

[CharacterCounts]

This sounds like a great way for PayPal to increase its bottom line. Restrict a lot of accounts and keep the interest on the float.

[GROUCHOTWO]

It is down the memory hole!
So who can divert such a big story?
Are the US citizens are considered so simple minded that the boom-boom distraction of 'breaking news' will be enough to bury this?

[sneakypete]

It sounds to me like they learned their custom service policies from E-Bay. E-Bay doesn't even have a customer service e-mail address. They rely on a chat board and e-bay customers to help their customers resolve problems. I've never seen or heard of any business this lame before.

[ladyjane]

I just opened a PayPal account three hours ago. Wish I had waited!

[jmp702]

I made a prediction to myself when this story came out soon after the attack, that it would never see the light of day if found to be politically incorrect with respect to those involved.

[Registered]

I've never had a problem. But I don't have the legs to be a cheerleader ;-)

[GROUCHOTWO]

Smart move. It has become quite easy to predict what will become 'news' and what will disappear.

The bad thing was how this story was knocked off the radar....the new terror attack by anthrax. The news media prepared us to anticipate it, then to assure hysteria the first round of anthrax was sent to the talking heads. Isn't interesting that the anthrax was home grown?

Since there has been much embarrassing news revealed this week regarding Israel conducting aggressive espionage against the US and JDL terrorism, I fear that if the media spin does not negate these charges we may see another 'terrorism' attack.

[jmp702]

No, the stories have been proven false

[struwwelpeter]

Check out My Lawyers dot Com.

[GROUCHOTWO]

I read your link. Where exactly is the proof that the stories are false?

[jmp702]

It was sarcasm..:)