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Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by problemspace »

ricardobeat wrote: post #52
greyfade wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried that, and when it complained that the card was linked to an account, it wouldn't let me proceed until I logged in. At the time, my account was locked down because I had the audacity to go to a conference in a town 80 miles away and try to use my Paypal account for something. They wouldn't let me unlock my account until I gave them a new landline phone number (which I didn't have) or fax them my ID (which I…

I have an account with a linked credit card, and have used the same card without logging in on a few occasions without any trouble. Maybe the policy is different for each country?

I can use my credit card without logging in as long as my PayPal account status is normal. But when my account was restricted, I couldn't pay using my linked credit card. I also tried to close my PayPal account - they don't let you do that either while the account is restricted.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by vectorpush »

pbiggar wrote: post #33
mdc wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>share the same last name. This may make sense in the US That counts me out. My wife was well-known professionally before we were married, so she kept her name. In my circle of friends, I know a handful of others to whom this also applies. Paypal's policy might have made sense in 1950's US, but not in the US as it is now.

Completely off topic, but I wish this could have just said "my wife uses her own last name" or something like that. It reads like your wife needs an excuse to keep her last name, which I'm sure isn't the case, but is indicative of the weird - slightly misogynistic - society we're in where the default is for women to give up their names at marriage.

Male hegemony is not the same thing as misogyny.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by aplusbi »

coderdude wrote: post #48
pbiggar wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my limited anecdotal observations, I see the same as you. That does not mean that it isn't a "male domination thing" (at an ingrained-into-the-core-of-society level). I simply wish we didn't feel like we have to excuse women keeping their own name, and hope that one day it will simply be the default.

I trust that the billions of women world 'round who practice this know in their heart-of-hearts that they are not being dominated by adopting their husband's last name. Yours is something of an extreme point of view, IMO.

The point is not that women adopting their husband's names is misogynistic but rather that the need to excuse women who don't is misogynistic.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by chris_wot »

In Australia, I believe that every PayPal account can also use a credit card - no matter what the card type. Just today I bought a CD with my Visa card, over PayPal.

I believe that it's because the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission stepped in some time ago and told eBay that they couldn't force people to only use PayPal to pay for their products as this is third-line forcing.

I love strong competition law :-)

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by chris_wot »

octopus wrote: post #34
DannoHung wrote: post #32

Paypal forced me to open an account with them so I could buy shit by credit card through their interface. And so they could try to shove their other shitty products down my throat. I want to set every single person who works for PayPal on fire.

@DannoHung I want to set every single person who works for PayPal on fire. While I can understand your frustration, I think you should cool off and think before posting such extremist views here.

I think we can safely say that this was very much said tongue in cheek!

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by batista »

vectorpush wrote: post #62
pbiggar wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely off topic, but I wish this could have just said "my wife uses her own last name" or something like that. It reads like your wife needs an excuse to keep her last name, which I'm sure isn't the case, but is indicative of the weird - slightly misogynistic - society we're in where the default is for women to give up their names at marriage.

Male hegemony is not the same thing as misogyny.

And a societal norm of women taking their husbands name is neither hegemony nor misogyny, it's just what it is.

Not everything is a kind of domination. Especially if it doesn't involve people doing stuff they don't want.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by glogla »

robomartin wrote: post #59

Want to experience real pain? PayPal + eBay. Talk about some horror stories. Here's what's interesting: It's YOUR MONEY. This isn't a credit card. It's a payment system that allows you to take your money --real cash-- and pay for things. Why are they placing limits on people's own money? If the account has enough balance for the purchase in question (and the money has been there for a while) you should be able to spe…

Quicken?

I have no direct experience with it, but according to wikipedia article it's very very horrible. For example:

"Quicken contains a sunset provision that stops online features and any QFX formatted files from working after a certain amount of time,[8][9] requiring users to first buy a new Quicken license, and then to learn a new, often confusing interface to the more recent Quicken version." or "To migrate to Lion, users are required to pay for an updated version of Quicken 2007. It has no new features." While GnuCash isn't perfect, and probably wouldn't work too well for business, Quicken would have to have really great features for someone to put up with this. And QuickBooks seems to be pretty much the same.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by dspillett »

beedogs wrote: post #55
EwanG wrote: post #51

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We're both off-topic, but since you chose to go there... My wife was 18 when we got married. She wasn't "well known". She wasn't a feminist. But she kept her last name and it has never been a problem - except for PayPal. Our kids have her last name as their middle name and my last name as their last name for convenience - mainly the school's convenience. Personally I hope some day we go to a system where you turn 18…

> My wife was 18 when we got married. o_O

That really isn't unheard of, you know. It isn't common, but it happens often enough that you shouldn't be that surprised. If you are shocked by people marrying at 18 I recommend you avoid looking into teen pregnancy rates.

Many early marriages fail (but then again so do many late ones, so that generalism might be based on confirmation bias) but some people are mature enough to have a solid relationship and life plan by that point so getting married early works for them.

Re: Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product

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Post by warp »

lomegor wrote: post #19
warp wrote: post #11

I've worked around this in the past by changing my e-mail address in my current paypal account, and then just creating a new account. (and then deleting my previous, now useless account). The limit is large enough that I so far have only needed to do this once. (I don't trust paypal enough to link it to an actual bank account).

This would make sense if your account doesn't have any more money. But it may happen to you some day that you have more money in your account than your limit and then you will be stuck as you cannot transfer it to another account.

I never have any money in the account. I only use it to make credit card purchases.
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