Re:PayPal? No way
by ctpide on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:22PM
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Seems this is a very one sided view from the sellers perspective. I believe most people want to use PayPal to be more secure. I've paid plenty of bills through simple wire transfers, but those were large reputable utility companies or merchants I trust. Small websites which are completely unknown to me, don't deserve the trust to wire money to, immediately, sorry, but I rather not have to hire a lawyer to get my money back in case something screws up. That's what PayPal and CreditCards are for.
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PayPal has a terrifying privacy policy.
Especially for something like a small donation, or a small purchase!
One day I was in an airport and wanted to use the wifi. Unfortunately I burned through my free 30 min way too quickly and had to pay a dozen dollars to the boingo hotspot crap.
I was on my phone so no way to change my MAC address unfortunately.
So I use paypal. I accept to pay the amount. And that was it.
Now a week later I connect to the free wifi in the same airport. And the thing decides to charge my paypal for one hour of browsing. I never opted to open my paypal account for boingo crap to have unlimited withdrawals.
So I contacted paypal and told them there was a fraud. I had never allowed these transactions. Paypal refused to do anything.