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The funny part, as TC mentions, is that PayPal pulled a similar guerrilla marketing stunt in its early days by paying people to wear PayPal t-shirts at an eBay conference. Could we say... revenge is a dish best served cold ?
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This is starting to sound like an adventure game puzzle. You are a security guard at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There are hundreds of dollars inside a six hundred pound block of ice. You cannot leave your station. How do you get at it? Using an ice pick? Why would a security guard have an ice pick? Maybe if it were Chicago, but this is San Francisco. Use another tool to chip away at it? I dunno, that's a lo…
> Melt the ice somehow? Nice idea, but how? Wait.
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This is starting to sound like an adventure game puzzle. You are a security guard at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There are hundreds of dollars inside a six hundred pound block of ice. You cannot leave your station. How do you get at it? Using an ice pick? Why would a security guard have an ice pick? Maybe if it were Chicago, but this is San Francisco. Use another tool to chip away at it? I dunno, that's a lo…
> Melt the ice somehow? Nice idea, but how? Wait.
When companies pull pranks like this, what's the risk of legal ramifications? I'm all for ingenuity in harmless pranks like this, but I've not heard much on what they're risking legally by doing so. Trespassing?
I can imagine that suing them for trespassing after dumping a chunk of ice with a 'paypal freezes your accounts, join wepay' message embedded in it (as well as a few hundred bucks) would help wepay more than it would hurt them. More free press! And a much longer running story.
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Hi Jacques, as someone who's had trouble with Paypal, what stops you from using, say, WePay in place of PayPal? I just wanted to understand your thought process regarding this?
Nothing, I just have not had the need to pay someone for anything in the last two weeks. Alternatives that I can use are international wire transfers and western union. Both have their own set of disadvantages, I'm most likely going to give some other service (possibly wepay) a shot when the next payment comes up. (and that's going to be fairly soon by the looks of it).
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provide the same basic functionality (perhaps make it easier to use), and improve customer service. i'd be willing to pay somewhat more for the same service if i have more of an assurance that my funds won't get frozen/confiscated/etc., and/or if the product were easier to work with. edit: hell, if wepay is partnering with a bank, if they can set things up so that i can get a debit card associated with that account a…
None of that would disrupt PayPal. You can't just provide the same basic functionality of PayPal. If you could, I'd have done it a long time ago. The problem is with the credit card companies. As for debit cards, those are easy to get. Incredibly easy, and easy to integrate with as well. Again, it's nothing special. I've been there, I've done it. A complete system where you could transfer money into your account tied…
sometimes its about timing, and at this point in time, there are a lot of people who are really angry with paypal.
Whenever people whine about PayPal, I usually mention AlertPay, and get maybe one upvote and otherwise I'm ignored. What's wrong with AlertPay? They seem like a pretty honest business and I've never had any trouble with them, though I've only ever bought things, not sold them.
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Nothing, I just have not had the need to pay someone for anything in the last two weeks. Alternatives that I can use are international wire transfers and western union. Both have their own set of disadvantages, I'm most likely going to give some other service (possibly wepay) a shot when the next payment comes up. (and that's going to be fairly soon by the looks of it).
Ok, do let us know how it works out :) I'm not sure if you'll be able to use WePay though, since their FAQs[1] state that they don't allow international payments at the moment(if that's what you'll be doing) [1] https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen
If it's local I have much faster and more reliable ways than any web server, bank-to-bank transfers here are online and nearly instant.
Ok, so that rules out wepay then.
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I can imagine that suing them for trespassing after dumping a chunk of ice with a 'paypal freezes your accounts, join wepay' message embedded in it (as well as a few hundred bucks) would help wepay more than it would hurt them. More free press! And a much longer running story.
True, though I would think Moscone would be the one with a claim against WePay for trespassing rather than Paypal.