http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/paypal/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:11:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103254/posts Ebay is forcing customers to a payment option of Paypal or credit cards by October 20, 2008. Their email states: Offer an approved electronic payment method by October 20 Make sure you're ready for an uninterrupted holiday selling season: Offer PayPal, a merchant credit card, and/or one of the other approved electronic payment methods by October 20 when checks and money orders will no longer be allowed. Their release states as follows: Faster, more secure checkout experience Paper payments end this October Beginning late October 2008, all items listed on eBay.com must be paid for using one of the following... EMAIL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103254/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:11:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065974/posts Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government Broad, invasive provision touches nearly every aspect of American commerce. Washington, D.C. - Update: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley is pushing the bill. Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America's small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065974/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:16:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053437/posts Excerpt - If you regularly sell items on online auction sites, you may find yourself on the Internal Revenue Service's radar. Recent legislation aims to help the IRS collect more taxes from online enterprises, many of which either don't know about their tax obligations or are ignoring them, according to the agency. The provision, part of the housing rescue package that President George W. Bush is expected to sign within days, will require PayPal and other processors of online payments to report annual gross receipts to the IRS for all but the smallest online merchants. ~ snip ~ The Wall Street Journal (excerpt, subscription) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053437/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:47:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035149/posts Broad, invasive provision touches nearly every aspect of American commerce. ~~~ Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government. *** Call Congress and Tell Them to Oppose The eBay Reporting Provision in the Housing Bill: 1-866-928-3035 *** FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey commented: "This is a provision with... FreedomWorks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035149/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934095/posts RCMP investigator says eBay trying to hide scam problem. A Calgary man is one of 1,000 Canadians who have been scammed on eBay through a tactic known as hijacking, and the RCMP says the online auction service is not co-operating with their criminal investigations. Shaqir Duraj, a Calgary bakery owner, won an eBay auction for a car in early October. He thought he was dealing with a reputable seller with a 98 per cent customer satisfaction rating. When Duraj complained to eBay, the company wrote him a letter saying someone had temporarily taken over, or hijacked, the seller's page, and... CBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934095/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 20:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902413/posts http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000565444&start=0 Ebay was hacked today. Users complete credit card information was being posted today on eBay's Trust and Safety board including name, cc number, CCV, paypal info, etc. It took eBay over 90 minutes to finally pull down the Trust & Safety server to remove the publicly posted information. If you have an eBay or PayPal account, you might want to monitor the above link. eBay discussion Board http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902413/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:25:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717361/posts I was bored this morning, was reading up on the news, events, nuclear bomb testing by rogue communist nations, etc. And surfed myself on the official website of North Korea. I always knew they were odd, but Holy $%#@!! Then I found they sell stuff like; badges, jade, CD's, and DVDs, using a free software platform called OsCommerce and they take payment via Paypal!? After I wiped the coffee spit off my monitor, I wondered if the UN sanctions that are coming down would include dismantling this sweet webstore? Oh man, that would really frost Kim Jong. North Korea Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717361/posts#comment Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:17:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707405/posts After many years of having an account with PayPal, I am sorry to say that I no longer trust them. In the last few days, someone hacked into my account and added a bank to my list. They then proceeded to deposit money into my account using this bank and then withdrew the whole amount after two days. All this was unknown to me as I have not had activity using PayPal in months. I only caught it because of notification sent by PayPal in e-mail. I suppose I should be grateful for that. So, I called PayPal and began... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707405/posts#comment Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:03:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661779/posts EBay Inc. said Jeff Jordan, president of its PayPal e-commerce payment service, resigned from the world's biggest online auctioneer as the company shuffled managers at units it's counting on to spur growth. Jordan, who almost doubled PayPal's user accounts while running the unit, will leave later this year to spend more time with his family, San Jose, California-based EBay said yesterday NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661779/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:00:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645724/posts Rep. Bob Goodlatte is in the process of pushing through Congress a bill that would "ban" Internet gambling. I've previously explained why the bill is bad public policy. But since that column, it has come to light that online auction giant eBay has thrown its support behind Goodlatte's efforts. Why would an Internet company open its arms to congressional regulation of the Internet? Some speculate that eBay is attempting to win favor with Goodlatte, who also happens to sit on the Congressional Internet Caucus. There's probably some truth to that. But there's another, more likely explanation for eBay selling out... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645724/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623381/posts This is a pretty elaborate one. You are invited to use your phone to access PayPal. The Phish takes you through a series of well-faked screens to a point where you have to enter your PayPal ID and password so as to be able to use the "new service." email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623381/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613620/posts U.S. Seeks PayPal Customer Data In Attempt to Find Tax Evaders By ROB WELLS April 12, 2006; Page D2 The Justice Department has asked PayPal Inc., the online-payment-processing unit of Internet auctioneer eBay Inc., to turn over some customer records as part of a tax-evasion probe, a top tax official said. U.S. District Judge James Ware in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in February issued a "John Doe" summons to PayPal, of San Jose, Calif., for the records.... The summons requires PayPal to provide account and transaction records relating to U.S. taxpayers with MasterCard, Visa... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613620/posts#comment Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:11:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478953/posts Katrina Relief Fund account frozen by PayPal Posted 01:46 - 5 September 2005 - by Tim Smalley PayPal - something truly awful, avoid like the plague. It seems that PayPal is getting in the way of SomethingAwful.com's efforts to raise some money to help with relief of the devastation in New Orleans. At the same time, PayPal are taking a 2.35% profit from every donation that was made to site owner Rich Kyanka's relief efforts. He had helped to raise over $30,000 in a little over 9 hours thanks to generous forum member donations. He'd chosen to use a PayPal... bi-tech.net-news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478953/posts#comment Wed, 7 Sep 2005 02:14:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474735/posts Phishing has emerged as one of the online world's more frightening scourges. Even at their most irritating, most spammers just wasted your time or left you averting your eyes from scary porn. Phishing scams are worse -- they're attempts to steal your money or even your identity, and they threaten to undermine some of the basic conveniences and efficiencies of the Internet age. And unfortunately, phishing is going to be with us for some time: The Internet's technical underpinnings date back to when the Net was a preserve of scientists who had no reason not to trust each other, and... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474735/posts#comment Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1470344/posts JUST RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL. LOOKS BOGUS AS ALL GET OUT! PLEASE BE ADVISED.....You have recieved this email because someone had tried to use your paypal account at http://www.1-bulk-email-mailing-address-list.com Below is the details about the transaction made: Payment Details Transaction ID: 4FS50663S0663861W Total: $113.00 USD Item/Product Name: America Email Address For Email Marketing and Email Advertising Business Information Business: Beyond W Limited Contact E-Mail: support@beyondw.com Message: send me msg to my mail new_paypal@yahoo.com Date : Wednesday, Aug 24 To confirm or decline this transaction, please follow the link provide below, Please save the fraud alert id for your reference. http://www.paypal-com-cgi-bin-confirmation-pp7848%34%31%2E%63%6F%6D... My e-mail InBox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1470344/posts#comment Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461572/posts ALL--the other day I was discussing the closing of my PayPal account and what they wanted from me in order to do this. I wrote them again to ask them how I can close my account and I wanted to share this with everyone to show you what you have to do in order to close an account with PayPal. Something I will not do and think is totally unreasonable.What I ended up doing is canceling that credit card.Here is their response to requesting the closing of my account that has been locked do to lack of use (I also... Paypal people http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461572/posts#comment Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1446439/posts eBay has tightened rules governing credit card acceptance and clarified its prohibition of a type of fraud known as shill bidding. eBay said Monday that sellers could no longer accept PayPal payments from buyers without accepting credit card transactions, thereby avoiding PayPal fees. eBay acquired PayPal in 2002. Sellers' practice of restricting PayPal payment methods "was creating a bad buyer experience," said PayPal spokeswoman Amanda Pires. "It would be like walking into the grocery store and filling up your cart, getting to the check stand with your credit card and being told sorry, even after you saw the credit card... Cnet News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1446439/posts#comment Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1446347/posts This was just posted to a web forum hosted by my local newspaper. Before I comment on it to the poster (who has posted before that he's a registered Republican, but who is a frothing liberal), I want to find out if anyone here knows anything about this. If Freepers really did this, I'm ashamed. But I have a hard time believing that, especially since DU is mentioned. In fact, as I re-read it I notice that there are no checkable or verifiable facts here. What can you all tell me about this? Here then is the post: This is... The Williamsport Sun-Gazette forums http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1446347/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:32:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425439/posts NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Exact details of the search company's planned service are not known, the report said, but quoted people familiar with the matter as saying it could have similarities with PayPal, which allows consumers to pay for purchases on Web sites by funding electronic-payment accounts from their credit cards or checking accounts. A Google spokesperson contacted by Reuters declined comment.... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425439/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jun 2005 02:34:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1401820/posts I received the Following Email. It is a scam. If you receive it and have a PayPal account please forward it to spoof@paypal.com. DO NOT fall for this phishing Scam. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1401820/posts#comment Thu, 12 May 2005 16:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387546/posts Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Hearing Charter: Future Markets for Commercial Space Future Markets for Commercial Space April 20, 2005 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Purpose: On Wednesday, April 20, at 9:30 a.m., the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics will hold a hearing to examine the future of the commercial space market and the government's role in that future. Last year, the President signed into law the Science Committee's Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, which dealt with regulating one aspect of commercial space - private, human suborbital flights, which are generally intended for space tourism.... House Science Committee via SpaceRef.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387546/posts#comment Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:37:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1323414/posts I am looking to switch auctions sites away from Ebay since they have made huge monatiary demands upon small sellers like myself. I have only heard of bidville.com and yahoo.com auctions. I was not impressed with yahoo. I am in need of good freeper advice please. I know that the buyers will not follow as quick as the sellers, but I figure that eventually the buyers will go where the action is. So I don't mind slower sells for a while. me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1323414/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320875/posts Ebay to increase fees, angering sellers Auction giant Ebay announced plans to boost the monthly fee it charges sellers by 60 percent. For a typical item selling on Ebay for $100.00, Ebay will collect 8 percent of the first $25.00 of the sell price and 5 percent of the remaining $75.00 of the sell price, or a total of $5.75 of the $100.00 purchase price. In addition, Ebay also derives a fee of anywhere from $0.40 to $1.00 per listing depending on the selling features the buyer selects. Should that $100.00 purchase also be paid for using Ebay's PayPal service,... gogov.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320875/posts#comment Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318699/posts Has anyone else noticed strange behavior on the net today? I was trying to pay a bill via Paypal and noticed it was very slow, so I fired up my tracert and noticed some strange things: Trace paypal.com (64.4.241.33) ... 9 65.106.6.133 14ms 14ms 13ms TTL: 0 (p5-0-0.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net ok) 10 65.106.0.25 41ms 28ms 41ms TTL: 0 (p6-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net ok) 11 65.106.1.73 27ms 27ms 41ms TTL: 0 (p0-0-0d0.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net ok) 12 65.106.0.21 69ms 69ms 54ms TTL: 0 (p6-0-0.RAR1.SanJose-CA.us.xo.net ok) 13 65.106.5.158 220ms 69ms 68ms TTL: 0 (65.106.5.158.ptr.us.xo.net ok) 14 207.88.80.178 68ms 69ms 68ms TTL: 0 (p0-0.CHR1.Fremont-CA.us.xo.net ok) 15 67.104.60.146 68ms 68ms 68ms TTL:... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318699/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:28:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1293003/posts Ukraine’s Money Lock-Down Copyright (C) 2004 by Eric M. Jackson Americans may take their ability to load up on cash from an ATM and initiate wire transfers from banks for granted, but this simple economic right is a crucial underpinning of their liberty. The unfettered flow of money is the bane of despots and corrupt governments the world over. When money is allowed to exchange hands unimpeded, it decentralizes decision-making and empowers a society’s citizens by giving them a store of value and medium of exchange that they can employ for their own private use. This weakens the state’s central... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1293003/posts#comment Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:00:17 GMT