Just to test, send me money: https://paypal.me/martino
Edit: Thank you for your €0,10 kind stranger!
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#42Paypal, sort out the problems you've had for years on your main site: * Incredibly slow page loads * I have to login twice each time * If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail * It goes on and on
Good on you for listing your gripes with them. Too often I see people complaining about PayPal in general but I've managed to miss actual reasons before now.
Normally it's because their account is suddenly closed, without any reason given, and no correspondence is entered into.
Also they're happy to support hate groups, but blacklisted wikileaks.
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#43It´s available here in Germany and I feared that fees would apply for every transaction but learning from the FAQ, when transferring money between friends/family this is actually free. Given, that in Germany, transactions between banks are free too, the whole cycle of shifting money should be also free for Paypal (omitting costs for running the service of course). I am looking forward to trying it out, it might be mu…
An alternative in Germany (or any country adhering to the IBAN/BIC numbering system) is cringle [1]. It uses direct withdrawals (Lastschrift) or wire transfers and does not require the other party to have a cringle account in order to receive money, according to their website.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell me about it: https://www.paypal.me/signup It looks like somebody already grabbed https://www.paypal.me/login
If you need a refund, just visit https://www.paypal.me/refund — enter an amount and hit send! :)
That's got to be the worst one. b^)
I wouldn't be shocked if they were to take this one back from you.
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#46I attempted to sign up with a 50 character 1Password-generated password, and was told that passwords cannot be longer than 20 characters. I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext. Use with caution.
Normally I'd cry foul but 20 alphanumeric characters (roughly 64^20, or 1e36 combinations) is more than sufficient.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell me about it: https://www.paypal.me/signup It looks like somebody already grabbed https://www.paypal.me/login
I grabbed https://www.paypal.me/test root was also available, sadly 404 was not.
Enjoy the penny! I was curious what the payer experience was like... (impressively slick)
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#48What happened to the story of PayPal handing over users' phone numbers to robocallers? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/03/paypal-robocall...
Did it turn out to be true? I haven't deleted my account yet, but I haven't made new purchases nor signed any new agreements since then. Especially since there may not even be a guarantee that they won't do it to people with "disabeld" accounts.
Edit: I just registered the .me account for my regular name, so I won't have someone posing as me or getting payments from people who've confused the owner with me, as a precaution.
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#49Just to test, send me money: https://paypal.me/martino Edit: Thank you for your €0,10 kind stranger!
Looks like they forgot to test for negative values. I put in -200.00 and it seems to have withdrawn the money from your account without problems ;)
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#50Paypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?
The Venmo team is a different team, located in NYC instead of California, has a brand that people actually like, something something middle managers. This kind of nonsense is standard issue from eBay and I don't think it would have changed in a month of separation.
Venmo has a team in SF now, and eBay doesn't own PayPal anymore.
Personally, I think it makes a lot of sense. This seems like a lower-friction flow, especially when requesting money from people who have never heard of Venmo – not everyone trust a payment processor they've never heard of, and PayPal has much broader awareness than Venmo.