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Skybird · 09-15-13, 06:10 AM

Friend is gone and I googled, found out that the problem obviously is around since some time now, a policy change that paypal has started to implement since 2011, and that just was not that obvious until now becasue the number of transaction and custoimers getting this treatement was intially small, but has constantly grown. At ebay people complain that almost none of their trascaciton works without credit card infos added to their paypal accounts anymore, and that paypal does transactions only via these credit cards for them.

I'm sure they jhave very many and very sensible excuses for it. But it is a torpedoing of the very purpose why paypal initally was successful in getting introduced to the market. You do not need paypal at all if you nevertheless have the transaction done via credit card. Why then adding it to paypal, why not skipping paypal and do it straight via credit card all the way? Or do they have a hidden alliance with credit card companies and wanting to generate income for them by forcing people to run via their credit cards nevertheless?

Neal, I'm still wondering why you do not run a separate, dedicated bank account for subsim-related things. Is thgat so expensive in the US? Ove rhere it costs me 30 some bucks poer year. With other banks it could have had even cheaper. That way, people could directly do transactions from their banking account to yours. Simple. Straight. Works since many decades. No internet-related concerns regarding security. No need to place personal sensitive data on more servers, and credit card info, and so on.

I have given up my credit card also. A life without these internet and plastic things is possible.

In stores, I pay cash, almost never via my bank card.

I have had paypal, then cancelled it during the Assange incident in protest, when paypal and other companies obeyed to US pressure and blocked Assange'S account. Last year I shortly had activated it again, when the hunger to buy a sim was greater than reason, but I regretted that when getting spam email adverts en masse which I traced back to the senders and learned that I got them due to my paypal account. I cancelled it again, and deleted it completely, and this time I have no intention to go back to them a third time.

I'll ask for my fathers credit card again to get your case done. But for that there must be an option to donate via credit card.

Didn'T know that donating could become so complicated.

09-15-13, 06:10 AM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,687 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Friend is gone and I googled, found out that the problem obviously is around since some time now, a policy change that paypal has started to implement since 2011, and that just was not that obvious until now becasue the number of transaction and custoimers getting this treatement was intially small, but has constantly grown. At ebay people complain that almost none of their trascaciton works without credit card infos added to their paypal accounts anymore, and that paypal does transactions only via these credit cards for them. I'm sure they jhave very many and very sensible excuses for it. But it is a torpedoing of the very purpose why paypal initally was successful in getting introduced to the market. You do not need paypal at all if you nevertheless have the transaction done via credit card. Why then adding it to paypal, why not skipping paypal and do it straight via credit card all the way? Or do they have a hidden alliance with credit card companies and wanting to generate income for them by forcing people to run via their credit cards nevertheless? Neal, I'm still wondering why you do not run a separate, dedicated bank account for subsim-related things. Is thgat so expensive in the US? Ove rhere it costs me 30 some bucks poer year. With other banks it could have had even cheaper. That way, people could directly do transactions from their banking account to yours. Simple. Straight. Works since many decades. No internet-related concerns regarding security. No need to place personal sensitive data on more servers, and credit card info, and so on. I have given up my credit card also. A life without these internet and plastic things is possible. In stores, I pay cash, almost never via my bank card. I have had paypal, then cancelled it during the Assange incident in protest, when paypal and other companies obeyed to US pressure and blocked Assange'S account. Last year I shortly had activated it again, when the hunger to buy a sim was greater than reason, but I regretted that when getting spam email adverts en masse which I traced back to the senders and learned that I got them due to my paypal account. I cancelled it again, and deleted it completely, and this time I have no intention to go back to them a third time. I'll ask for my fathers credit card again to get your case done. But for that there must be an option to donate via credit card. Didn'T know that donating could become so complicated. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.