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06/28/2003 08:51:43 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by pedromarlinez:
Originally posted by ChrisW123:
I've been using PayPal for years to make purchases and have never had a problem with them. What is all the "hoopla" about? I saw the lame link called "paypalsucks.com" in this thread but has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe it's Internet BS directed toward a successful company (PayPal and eBay) by the competition to try to discredit them with no shread of proof of any wrong doing?
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I'm with you Chris. I'm from Canada (A FOREIGN COUNTRY, OH GOD...NO!!!) and never had a problem. The people who create those sites (who for some reason don't own either a dictionary or a spell-check) are people who (in general...not EVERYONE) likely deserve whatever they get. I've had some problems buying on the net, but NONE of them are Ebay's fault.
i bought my DPC membership with PayPal, and oddly enough, I'm still here. |
PayPal is not the most cost effective solution for folks paying from outside of the USA. They charged me a $1.25 US membership fee, a surprisingly large (10%) and completely undeclared surcharge on top of the $25.00 USA DPC fee and then added a ridiculous foreign exchange rate (12% over the current bank rate at the time). It made DPC far more expensive than it needed to be for someone outside of the USA.
I can afford it and the dollars are not the real issue. It is the entire approach and the surprises that I do not appreciate. Others may not be able to deal with the extra costs as easily, so I still feel that the problem needs to be better addressed than it has to date for the sake of the entire DPC community.
To add insult to injury, they continue to send me junk mailings, including one this very morning about their privacy policies - what a joke. You must enter their web site and modify your user profile in order to opt out of the monthly mailings. Be advised that this action does not remove you from their mailing systems, just slows the junk mail a bit. As well, when you respond, they can then confirm your an active email account since you replied to their mass mail-out. I do not like the aggressive and harassing emails pushing me to complete their registration process. I just wish they would go away. Needless to say, I will go out of my way to avoid them in the future.
Message edited by author 2003-06-28 08:58:47.
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06/28/2003 10:39:06 AM · #27 |
I have been using paypal for over a year now and I only had one small issue come up when I was paying ebay fees in May. I paid them on a Saturday Morning and didn't realize it for another 2 weeks that my payment was never recieved by their billing dept. I had a copy of my receipt printed out and I used the contact email that it takes forever to get to on Paypal but the very next day they had my account credited and emailed me back appologizing for the inconvienence and they gave me a $5 credit for the error.
It really wasn't a big deal for me and I also know of someone who had her pasword stolen and she did a contact email also and within 24 hours they had corrected it and recommended to her that she contact her bank and of course her bank closed her account and opened up a new one for to protect her.
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07/03/2003 07:36:36 PM · #28 |
To Drew and DPC staff...
I received a call today from my VISA card issuer informing me that they had received a call from VISA corporate indicating that PayPal had contacted them and informed them that my credit card has "possibly" been compromised. The only information provided was that the "possible" compromise occured within PayPal. Apparently, no other information is available.
I was advised to cancel my credit card, and now will have to wait for a new card to reach me in 6-10 business days.
Further, PayPal did not credit my dollar something sign up fee towards my $25.00 membership to DPC...(as they advertised they would)
Needless to say I will not be using PayPal again for this, or any other site. Just wanted others to be aware...
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07/06/2003 10:45:19 PM · #29 |
Drew and DPC Staff...
Thanks for the reply!
DM |
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08/05/2003 08:29:59 AM · #30 |
Just a thought about this - as you have things set up to take credit cards over on DPCPrints (and presumably therefore you have merchant accounts and the like all set up) would it be possible to use the same mechanism to sell DPChallenge memberships rather than going through Paypal?
I'm usually pretty relaxed about buying things through the net, but Paypal seems to want all manner of things like bank account details (?!) and to charge me for the pleasure of opening accounts... |
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08/05/2003 12:56:20 PM · #31 |
| I was nt too worried about becoming a member via paypal, I was a bit concerned when they sent me something saying something like 'if you notify your credit card about us you may lose your paypal account'. I must say I thought this was a bit strange. Does anyone know what that is about, did i just misunderstand? |
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08/07/2003 12:13:05 PM · #32 |
topping for response to pete's Q...
(pete = ganders)
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08/07/2003 05:23:00 PM · #33 |
| I used Pay Pal to send and E-Check to make my payment. No credit card needed. Just your Bank account (LOL). Really fast service and secure. |
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10/30/2003 04:29:30 PM · #34 |
| I seemed to have made just one payment in Paypal on my credit card 2 months ago and no more is this correct if so ,what happens now ? Pleezze |
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03/19/2004 08:33:27 PM · #35 |
Citibank has Virtual Numbers. Everytime you make a purchase with their credit card and after you have downloaded and installed the small program it will automatically pop up and check for a password and generates a random number that the vendor accepts. Always works and doesn't cost me anything.
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