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I fought the PayPal and I won

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Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

croes wrote: post #58
atirip wrote: post #6

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I only buy from merchants that offer PayPal (there are few I trust by card, like Amazon). And the reason is that whatever it happens, I can always get my money back with PayPal. It happened 3 times in last 5 years that seller took the money and never shipped anything. I got all them resolved very quickly.

That's BS. Had a seller screwing me over who "sold" me a VR headset. He gave me a UPS tracking number which belonged to a package that was delivered to another city, another person, was part 1 of a 3 package delivery and weighted 28kg, pretty heavy weight headset. The only match was the zip code everything else had nothing to do with me. So I complained to Paypal, gave them all the data that showed that the tracking…

Aside: Where do you live that has a postal service where zip codes match in different cities? Sounds like someone misunderstood the point of a postal [zip] code. Or, did I misunderstand?

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Thanks, I remembered I was receiving a few dollars a month from patreon which added up over the years, I just transfered a big chunk of that out of my account.

At this point, I'm not worried about Paypal's security, but more about their own policies of shutting down accounts. I wish companies were required to specify why an account was blocked, but I'm 99% sure they don't and they've weaseled their way out of it so that challenging the decision becomes more difficult. If they specify a reason to someone who is more ligituous or who knows legalese, they could probably pick the reasoning apart.

Or just a "oh you have ruled 'fraudulent activity'? Prove it"

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by kingofpandora »

missedthecue wrote: post #57
rippercushions wrote: post #53

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I lost access to a PayPal account I had used for years, because one day they decided they needed to know the CVV of a long-expired credit card, and refused to let me log in without it. Surprisingly, customer support was very helpful and let me transfer out the (minimal) balance in the account to another, completely unconnected PayPal business account I happened to have. Which is even more disconcerting, because it me…

Does "very very occasionally" mean you use it frequently or infrequently?

It means infrequently.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by hvdijk »

hairybobbins wrote: post #78
ryan-c wrote: post #35

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Why do you find this offensive? Wright's key points regarding 'sex realism', as I understand them, are that sex is not a spectrum (as many people are claiming these days) but a male-female binary, and that sex is still an important characteristic in many circumstances, such that it cannot realistically be supplanted by 'gender identity' or similar. Seems like a reasonable viewpoint to me, and not one that would gener…

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Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by richbell »

hvdijk wrote: post #86
hairybobbins wrote: post #78

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Why do you find this offensive? Wright's key points regarding 'sex realism', as I understand them, are that sex is not a spectrum (as many people are claiming these days) but a male-female binary, and that sex is still an important characteristic in many circumstances, such that it cannot realistically be supplanted by 'gender identity' or similar. Seems like a reasonable viewpoint to me, and not one that would gener…

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> Nothing suspicious about this at all.

This type of low effort comment is generally frowned upon.

Perhaps they didn't feel comfortable discussion controversial matters on their main account?

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by googlryas »

ryan-c wrote: post #64

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As someone who doesn't follow any of this, having just heard of "sex realism", do trans people generally think they are a different biological sex than what their DNA and gene expression shows? I thought trans was about changing gender, not changing sex.

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Post by hairybobbins »

mschuster91 wrote: post #54
TulliusCicero wrote: post #33

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Sorry, what does this article have to do with social justice issues?

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'TERFs' are just feminists who want to retain female-only spaces.

This is not a viewpoint that's even remotely comparable to Nazism, whose adherents are a distinct group with a set of beliefs that are inherently contradictory to feminism.

Re: I fought the PayPal and I won

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Post by thagsimmons »

ryan-c wrote: post #64

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Almost nobody who reads this but doesn't already know who Jesse Singal is will bother to do the mountains of reading needed to figure out the reality, so I feel that I need to provide a counterpoint. I'm quite familiar with Singal, and my reading is that he's judicious, fair, scrupulous, compassionate, but willing to explore touchy issues in a way that triggers his critics. We need more like him, and I encourage people who are interested enough to take a look and come to their own conclusions.
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