Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product
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Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product
#2I've hit this 'can only link bank account to one PayPal account' problem a few times and it is very frustrating.
The way I operate my business and personal bank and PayPal accounts means I have to shuffle money around to work with this rule. Why, PayPal?
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#3While some people may have various business reasons for wanting multiple PayPal accounts linked to one bank account, I've run into this problem for another reason that I imagine is even more common: I'm married. My wife and I both have PayPal accounts. But guess what, PayPal? We have but one bank account. You know... a joint account... like I'm sure a vast majority of married people have. What a stupid rule.
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#4This wouldn't be a problem if you accepted Bitcoin. ;)
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#5I've hit this 'can only link bank account to one PayPal account' problem a few times and it is very frustrating. The way I operate my business and personal bank and PayPal accounts means I have to shuffle money around to work with this rule. Why, PayPal?
> Why, PayPal?
To prevent fraud.
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#6I've hit this 'can only link bank account to one PayPal account' problem a few times and it is very frustrating. The way I operate my business and personal bank and PayPal accounts means I have to shuffle money around to work with this rule. Why, PayPal?
I hit it because my wife had a paypal account before I did, and we share a joint account. It's really irritating, but I found a work-around (use another account) and moved on.
Wish there was a strong competitor to paypal...
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#7I've hit this 'can only link bank account to one PayPal account' problem a few times and it is very frustrating. The way I operate my business and personal bank and PayPal accounts means I have to shuffle money around to work with this rule. Why, PayPal?
> Why, PayPal? To prevent fraud.
Care to elaborate on that? How does it prevent fraud?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why, PayPal? To prevent fraud.
Care to elaborate on that? How does it prevent fraud?
Presumably it keeps people from just spam-creating new accounts every time they get banned.
In this case, however, it's hurting their business by being too strict. They could, for example, let you have at most two accounts linked to solve the problem some married people have.
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#9I'm pretty sure you can go to pay while not logged in to PayPal. Then enter your credit card directly. They will tell you it's linked to an account and do you want to login. But there is still an option to go ahead and just use the card.
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#10While some people may have various business reasons for wanting multiple PayPal accounts linked to one bank account, I've run into this problem for another reason that I imagine is even more common: I'm married. My wife and I both have PayPal accounts. But guess what, PayPal? We have but one bank account. You know... a joint account... like I'm sure a vast majority of married people have. What a stupid rule.
You probably had separate bank accounts once too. You merged those, what is holding you back from merging paypal accounts? Seems like it would be the easier of the two operations.