[freepatriot32]

the people at paypal must have gone to the same business school as the owners of all the airlines they figure if they can p*ss off the customers and make doinng business with them as inconvienient as possible they will get twice as many customers.

[ChemistCat]

Went to send a VERY FINE artist, who does military art, (http://hometown.aol.com/woodblox/myhomepage/index.htm is the site by the way) some money through Paypal. They wanted us to sign a ridiculous new user agreement which absolves them from all responsibility at all for errors they make affecting our bank accounts. Since we've been a victim of Paypal before, we declined to agree to give them carte blanche that way. They lost us and convenience or no convenience I'm sure this was their last chance with us.

[Andyman]

You can thank the lawyers for this one I bet. Someone is bound to sue PayPal if funds transit through there for one purpose or another. CYA. BTW, I love PayPal.

[shattered]

Anyone else find it strange that they will let people SELL the stuff..just not BUY it with paypal? Ebay needs to decide one way or the other.

[xp38]

home of the Spank-O-Matic and a wide variety of bondage and in-home torture equipment

Pardon me while I try to suppress ROFL.

[big bad easter bunny]

Thanks a lot for posting this, I am curently setting up my new site and we are probaly going to use Paypal.

[jimt]

the people at paypal must have gone to the same business school as the owners of all the airlines they figure if they can p*ss off the customers and make doinng business with them as inconvienient as possible they will get twice as many customers.

You've got that right. They set a limit of $2000 worth of transactions before they DEMAND direct access to your checking account. Well, I've spent my $2000 via Visa, Discover and Amex, and now, they can go to the theological place of eternal punishment. NOBODY has direct access to my checking account - a practice which has paid repeated dividends in the past.

Their arrogant buiness practices stink. I patronize vendors who allow more flexible means of payment.

[TennesseeProfessor]

I'll just add that you are also prohibited from using PayPal to buy guns.

[boris]

I perceive a business opportunity for a competitor which is not quite so fastidious.

Remember when E-bay stopped allowing the sale of firearms? Somebody started "Gun-bay" or something similar.

Anybody know of one (a freer alternative to Pay-pal)?

--Boris

[fqued]

You, and most of the posters on this thread have overstated the case. I am an eBay seller of antiquarian books, and I accept PayPal payements. I have NEVER had a problem with PayPal. But then again, I sell rare books, not bondage equipment, not pornography, and not guns. I don't care if anyone else wants to purchase those items, but I do not see a problem with PayPal refusing to be the middleman in those transactions. Again, I have NEVER had a problem with PayPal.

[BJungNan]

home of the Spank-O-Matic and a wide variety of bondage and in-home torture equipment...

ROFL. Oh my gosh, you mean I can't pay for it with PayPal. Hmmm, maybe they can set up SpankPal payment service. Tooooooo Funnny! What the heck does a spank-o-matic look like anyhow?!!! LOL

[buickmackane]

Interesting. I used to buy and sell Yu-Gi-Oh! cards on eBay because my daughter's collection was so overloaded with duplicates. I had no problem with PayPal other than the fees that were deducted from my customers' payments. It was great until Christmas because demand was so high (there seemed to be a lot of grandparents online who had no idea what they were buying), but after that, prices started nosediving. I clearly stated that I would only accept electronic payments, but I kept getting high bids from kids who didn't have PayPal and were deadbeats when they promised to send money orders instead. After receiving negative feedback from one of these kids who didn't comply with the payment terms, I quit selling because I didn't need the hassle. PayPal does deduct directly from my checking account, but I only keep a small balance in it. They have my Visa debit card number as a supposed "backup," but they obviously don't realize that it all ties into the same little checking account, and that's just fine with me.

[LibKill]

Sometime back I wanted to buy some software from a company that only takes PayPal, no credit cards, no money orders, etc.

I started to set up the PayPal account ("Click Here, Easy to Do!"). They asked for my credit card number.

At this point I thought I might better do a little research on Paypal. (Will open in window.)

It turns out there is a LOT of negative information about PayPal. After that, I decided they would never get my credit information.

[Henrietta]

ping

[Atlas Sneezed]

Question:

How does paypal know what you are selling? If I am selling (say) a machine gun with pornographic images emblazoned on it, how does paypal know not to allow the buyer to put the money in my account?

[narses]

Ping. A good thing happening, PayPal says NO to porn and the scum who sell it.

[fatima]

Well I just became a power seller a few weeks ago,never had a problem with paypal and I do not leave a lot of money sitting there.I did have a problem with a vintage nightstick.This was donated and very old.We watched the auctions for 1 month on nightsticks and old Billy Clubs,this one was from the 20's.I put it up with a reserve of 50.00 and in 5 minutes had a full bid.Went to bed and looked it up the next day and they took it down,but when fatima goes she takes them all.All the auctions we were watching were gone too.Buyer contacted us and we still sold,moral of story,if fatima goes they all go:)