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WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

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Re: WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

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Post by nphase »

hugh3 wrote: post #8
TallGuyShort wrote: post #4

There are hundreds of dollars below the ice, and they chased down the pallet-mover? Why didn't they just get some ice picks?

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…

Cover it with black bed sheets. Attracts the sun, covers the statement. Problem solved.

Re: WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

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Post by zackattack »

HNer wrote: post #14
jacquesm wrote: post #10

What a funny way to grab a ton of free press. They must have planned this for some time given the logistics involved and the time it takes to freeze quantity of water that size and get a nice and clear chunk. My own paypal saga isn't over yet, though there have been some surprising developments. I sincerely hope that someone will one of these days replace paypal with a better way of doing peer-to-peer payments, but o…

i moved away from paypal, went pci compliant, got a merchant account, was a pain stetting up but feel so much better on the other side.

have your sales increased

Re: WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference

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Post by billclerico »

jacquesm wrote: post #50
billclerico wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

according to our tests, about 3-4 days

I figured as much, that's not going to be in time for dinner. Unless you like your dinner cold. (pun somewhat intended). When will you guys do international payments ?

international payments is our top requested feature. unfortunately, there are a ton of product & regulatory hurdles that stand between us and our goal.

we're steadily marching towards it, but we have a lot of work to do here at home in the U.S. before we can expend the resources necessary for international expansion. i don't have a date for you, unfortunately.

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Post by DeusExMachina »

jacquesm wrote: post #10

What a funny way to grab a ton of free press. They must have planned this for some time given the logistics involved and the time it takes to freeze quantity of water that size and get a nice and clear chunk. My own paypal saga isn't over yet, though there have been some surprising developments. I sincerely hope that someone will one of these days replace paypal with a better way of doing peer-to-peer payments, but o…

I can understand that some security measures are required, but I moved away from paypal because after being locked very easily it's then really hard and painful to show that your account is legit. Especially when all you get are automatic responses to your emails.

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Post by olegkikin »

scythe wrote: post #23

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.

Paypal charges 2.9% + 30c

AlertPay charges 4.90% + 25c

WePay charges 3.5% (50c minimum)

(for credit card processing)

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Post by noodle »

jasonlotito wrote: post #68
noodle wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

being disruptive doesn't necessarily imply success. in what way do you think wepay right now is disruptive? plus, its not like paypal was the first online payments system. sometimes its about timing, and at this point in time, there are a lot of people who are really angry with paypal.

> sometimes its about timing, and at this point in time, there are a lot of people who are really angry with paypal. "At this point in time" has been for more than a decade. People have always been angry with PayPal. > in what way do you think wepay right now is disruptive? I don't think it is. It's not at all disruptive to PayPal. And I'm not even talking about the biggest limiting factor right now for WePay: lack o…

> People have always been angry with PayPal.

and yet people don't have a viable alternative that provided the same or similar serivces. i'd stop using it almost immediately if had one.

> I don't think it is. It's not at all disruptive to PayPal

then why does it matter if it pivots or not?

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Post by nkassis »

jacquesm wrote: post #22
HNer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i moved away from paypal, went pci compliant, got a merchant account, was a pain stetting up but feel so much better on the other side.

Yes, that's a good way to get payments from customers to you, but it sucks as a way of paying for auction goods and freelance work, which is how I used to use paypal. International wire transfers are a lot harder to do without actually visiting a branch of the bank I'm with and filling out a bunch of forms, and they take much longer to process too.

"International wire transfers are a lot harder to do without actually visiting a branch of the bank I'm with and filling out a bunch of forms, and they take much longer to process too."

That's my personal problem too. Sending money from US to Canada or Canada to the US is a pain. If only they had the same check clearance system, it would solve so much. Same as how having similar phone numbers makes it so much easier.

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