An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
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Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#2For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch.
Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#3For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch. Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. There is no requirement for you to sign up for a Google+ account, or a Google account whatsoever.
A lot of people post very informative and provocative things on Google+, it is a shame that people would shun them just because it is on Google+.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#4For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch. Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. There is no requirement for you to sign up for a Google+ account, or a Google account whatsoever. A lot of people post very informative and provocative things on Google+, it is a shame that people would shun them just because it is on Google+.
Some people does not like what Google has become or the fact that Google has way more information about ones person than one feels comfortable with.
Therefore, they stay off Google and their products, even just for a "visit".
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#5For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch. Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
I read it ok...
I don't have a google+ account and have a browser that is pretty much locked down. ( no-script + ad-block + request policy ) Other than allowing google.com in no-script, no action required.
Short read, no surprises. - paypal customer has problem, can't get any customer service. There really needs to be some effective competition to PP before these stories stop, I think.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#6If e-mail wasn't getting him anywhere, why hasn't he picked up the phone and called? My experience has been that the people on the phone were more knowledgeable and had more power to work on an account than the people responding to e-mails. And you don't have to wait.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#7For me to read this article I have to sign up for a Google plus account. No go. I'm trying to reduce my daily social media intake, thankyouverymuch. Just keep in mind if you post on Google plus and no where else, you are limiting your audience. I, for one, will not read it.
I read it ok... I don't have a google+ account and have a browser that is pretty much locked down. ( no-script + ad-block + request policy ) Other than allowing google.com in no-script, no action required. Short read, no surprises. - paypal customer has problem, can't get any customer service. There really needs to be some effective competition to PP before these stories stop, I think.
I can even read the content with curl. No javascript or cookies required.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#8As a PayPal user, I find this sort of issue more alarming than the usual temporary hold stories :-( That said, there should always be a second set of backup data for transactions you process.
You can lean on the receipts and transaction data stored by your chosen shopping cart or similar system. Even if the taxman won't accept these stats as authoritative, they're a good placeholder.
If everything is done with Buy Now buttons, though, things get a lot more difficult as the only remaining transactional record are the e-mails PayPal sends you which will be pretty tricky to collate.
Darren should also look into PayPal's various APIs (sadly there are so many..) though, as there's probably a way to slurp the transactional data one by one but programatically.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#9The business of PayPal is to allow you to accept payments over the internet at a reasonable rate.
The business of PayPal is not to outsource your financial administration. If you run a million dollar business and you're relying on PayPal to keep the records for your tax, you're doing something wrong.
Re: An Open Letter to PayPal - Or How PayPal is Stopping Me from Lodging My Tax
#10Every time I see a PayPal horror story, I think, "if only these people were to write to their representatives in Congress about the laws that allow PayPal and the banks to main their monopoly, something might actually happen." PayPal isn't going to change.
There's a mobile payments hearing in Congress on March 22nd. (See http://financialservices.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx...). The witness list is closed and my guess is that no startup is represented. If you're interested in making your views known, e-mail me and I'll get you in touch with the right people.