Ahhh! Didn't I say its the NSA?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-922430.html
That's why they want everybody's credit cards, and want everybody using credit cards. Easier to track.
If you are a tourist or visitor to the US, you must even file in your credit card data that you n ever used for transaction with the Us, and will not take with you and thus do not use there. One of the many, many personal data they demand from you when you travel into the US. If you get send to prison by a German court, far less personal data about you are recorded in files, than when you visit the US.
Matti does not wish to deal with the paypal issue any longer. I cannot criticise him for that, why should he care for it at all if it is my business. So, no donations from me. He used his paypal this morning, btw, for a direct debiting process like usual, and it worked.
Without a credit card filed into his account.
Neal, you may want to check your paypal procedure settings. That the direct debit processing is not allowed from here to your paypal account definitely is no general paypal policy setting (though it spreads) affecting all paypal transactions, but affects only certain types and cases, it must be something related to your account therefore.