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

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Post by robomartin » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 1:48 PM UTC

glogla wrote: post #68

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…

I've been using it since the early days (by that I mean IBM PC/DOS). The paragraph you quote does not represent anything I have ever experienced with any version of the product.

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

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Post by leephillips » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 2:13 PM UTC

The screenshot that we are to assume is from paypal says that he's reached his "sending limit". What is that supposed to mean? In the text, he says he's reached his "spending limit". Is this just a weird typo from paypal? Or something stranger?

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

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Post by jack-r-abbit » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 2:33 PM UTC

aplusbi wrote: post #63

coderdude wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A wife taking the husband's name is still the norm here. I think that some people feel they need to explain why they didn't so that other (more judgmental) people don't just label them as "weird" or "femi-nazis" or any of the other disparaging labels that people put on others when they don't have the same opinions and ideals. I think this change is a slow process and will not have 100% acceptance. But I have no doubt that the time will come when that choice will no longer be questioned.

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

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Post by mdc » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 3:32 PM UTC

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.

My wife doesn't need an excuse and I didn't offer one. I provided an explanation for this discussion lest you think we were recent immigrants or had some other cultural norm different from mainstream US. In fact, we're about as mainstream as you can get in this wonderfully diverse country, and no one I know bats an eye about us having different names. No one except PayPal and that one grumpy old Cuban* in south Florida who wanted some proof of our marital status for a rental car contract.

* and before I'm branded racist for pointing out his nationality without relevance, I'll add that he was the one who made a long case about how things were done properly in his country and how I lacked machismo for allowing this sad state of affairs. There was much wagging of fingers and clucking of tongues about this "American way". Maybe he works for PayPal now.