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TT · 07-30-2004, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by 666fast

http://www.paypalsucks.com/

Read and be horrified! Paypal is a shady company IMO.

Paypal has many detractors for sure, but all those people should maybe invest their time in creating another method to send money so fast and easily as Paypal does

I use it very often, of course I'm pissed off at their charges every now and then, but hell, it's a service

you have to pay for a service usually

coloradosilver · 07-30-2004, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by TT

Originally Posted by 666fast

http://www.paypalsucks.com/

Read and be horrified! Paypal is a shady company IMO.

Paypal has many detractors for sure, but all those people should maybe invest their time in creating another method to send money so fast and easily as Paypal does

I use it very often, of course I'm pissed off at their charges every now and then, but hell, it's a service

you have to pay for a service usually

Yeah, I got this one too. Paypal does have it's downpoints, but for right now, and it's connections with e-bay, it's the most convenient world wide money transfer system we have. I deleted the lawsuit email as well. Just because 43 cents doesn't really help me, and because it'll probably take a few years to collect. Oh well, just going to have to deal with Paypal till something beter comes along. I still like it for the most part though.

RC45 · 07-30-2004, 05:41 PM

http://www.paypalsucks.com/forums/sh...87&old_block=0

http://paypalsucks.com/files/paypal2.mp3

Interesting.

This guy used the PayPal recorded message "This call may be recorded for quality control purposes" as a granting of permission - as in "This call MAY be recorded..." as opposed to "This call MAY NOT be recorded..."

So far I only pay with it from Credit Cards...

jon_s · 07-30-2004, 05:53 PM

I was going to say that it was a pretty comprehensive scam! No one aspect was missed out. :shock:

SilviaEvo · 07-30-2004, 06:03 PM

nope didnt get it

Anile8er · 07-31-2004, 07:58 AM

i got it but deleted it... also paypal is fucked up a friend sent me a dollar to test his account and they took 33 cents out oif a dollar... a fucking dollar

TT · 07-31-2004, 08:03 AM

Dude if you will read their policies you will see there is like a 30 cents or so, minimum charge for EVERY transaction, + the %age that change with the amount you send.. so obviously if you send a single dollar, it will seems outrageous

It still isn't cheap, here are some of the last payment we received:

171 € sent toward us, 7.02 kept by Paypal
231 $, 9 kept by them
420 $, 16 kept by them

again, it is quite high, but a Money Order wouldn't be that much cheaper and anyway longer to do while Paypa is a simply click

graywolf624 · 07-31-2004, 11:26 AM

actually its free if you send from a direct bank withdrawl. it costs money when the payer sends from a credit card.

TT · 07-31-2004, 12:11 PM

Well if the receiver has a premium account as we have, you ALWAYS pay, no matter if the money is sent from the balance, a cc or bank

and you need a premium account to be able to receive cc payments, so I'm sure it's more common than the regular one

hemi_fan · 07-31-2004, 02:19 PM

I sold some Online Game Money to a guy one time for $210 canadian, and the payments went thru and everything. I transfered it into my parents bank account, and to this day they say they never recieved it... i have no clue what happened, if they got it or not...

SandyDingos · 07-31-2004, 03:18 PM

There are other alternatives you paypal which are used more readily then paypal currently in other industrys besides eBay like Firepay www.firepay.com
Paypal is a great service and thus some charges should be imposed like TT explains, I guess if people start switching there payment options to other services on eBay perhaps paypal will lose its grip on the online auction market.