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My understanding (when I briefly looked into this about 5 years ago) is that Paypal doesn't support sending money for donations unless it's actual charitable donations - accepting 'donations' for an npm package is against paypal terms of service. My guess is that Paypal finally got around telling github to stop accepting this.
What is an actual charitable donation?
I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank account. It directly presented me with the info that if I were to couple the account, Paypal will have 90 days of access to my balance and all my transactions. How about no. Luckily there was a link on the bottom “link it in…
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> and there it was, my bank account number. I was able to transfer to it without coupling after all So you could totally transfer without coupling... the real problem was you didn't know your bank account number?
I am curious if people with your attitude think it is OK to try and be sneaky to trick users like that, or if you are not aware that is what is happening?
I don't understand your reply at all.
We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?
No complaints.
Really GitHub, no details? That looks like something which could easily hugely decrease donations for _some_ people. (For many it probably won't be to big of a change given that most sponsors are likely either companies or well-earning IT people.)
My understanding (when I briefly looked into this about 5 years ago) is that Paypal doesn't support sending money for donations unless it's actual charitable donations - accepting 'donations' for an npm package is against paypal terms of service. My guess is that Paypal finally got around telling github to stop accepting this.
https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/not-for-profit-2
The problem is that PayPal’s rules are vague and opaque, and they apply them arbitrarily. You have no real recourse to complain about one of their decisions. I can maybe see how it’s painful for GitHub to deal with them.
We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?
We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?
Much better support than eBay or Amazon, at least for merchants, and the few times I've needed them as a customer they've helped me out. Even one time when I was socially engineered into ticking the "item received" when I hadn't received the item, they helped me get a refund.
I think a lot of the bad stories you hear about them come from people upset at the customer being always given the benefit of the doubt, even in suspicious fraud situations (e.g. where the customer has 3 positive feedback and the seller has 10,000). It's bullshit, but from a business perspective it's a small price to pay so that your customers don't think "am I about to get scammed?" every time they click the Buy It Now button.
If you drill down a bit too, you'll find a sizable minority of people who lost their shit at support staff then act surprised when they don't get any help.
We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?