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MohawkMuscle
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A friend is going to send some cash to me for my PS2. How reliable is paypal?
G*orge Sp*llwin
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reliable.
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WARBIRDWS6
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paypal is awesome. done tens of thousands of dollars worth of payments/collections with it. great system, just that they take a percentage. no biggie though.........
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MohawkMuscle
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ok..
what about possible reverse charges?
what about possible reverse charges?
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WARBIRDWS6
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MohawkMuscle said:
reverse charges as in the other party wanting to dispute the transaction? yes, that can happen. its a PITA, but there is a way to dispute any paypal transaction. they investigate the situation after a million emails...but prefer the parties to handle it themselves if possible. try to use it with someone you trust if it is high dollar. i know you deal with some real weirdo's sometimes. lol.
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WARBIRDWS6
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Canuck4 said:
never heard of that. i got like 100 plus transactions on there verified...and like 700 on ebay, most of which went to paypal. as well i pay for supps etc with paypal all the time. WU is a rip-off....but i use them anyway sometimes. E-gold equal pain in the ass to me. i can't go through all that trouble when there are easier methods.
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Golfer18--old
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Paypal can be traced.
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WARBIRDWS6
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Golfer18 said:
yeah, but there is no proof of what you bought so long as those fields are left empty or put in as "cash non-auction". leave the descriptions empty and no one knows what you bought. maybe they know from who its bought....but so what? thats my take on it.
Canuck4 said:
Yes-yes-yes. Paypal absolutely f'in SUCKS. I will never use them again for any type of transaction. I only ever used them for legit purposes to buy things from websites that only accepted Paypal. At this point, if a website only accepts Paypal, they've lost my business. Paypal has been hacked, they've been sketchy, they have TERRIBLE customer service. They are not responsive, they make you PROVE who you are after they've VERIFIED who you are... ???? Go figure on this one. I refuse to send them 3 forms of written ID to unlock my retarted Paypal account (again).
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WARBIRDWS6
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lets not scare the guy about paypal. now if my 20,000 bucks in walmart stock i sold were transferred to paypal and they froze my account so i couldn't pay off the black car and put a DP on my house like i had just done...i would kill someone. but we are talking about a couple of bucks and one transaction. for normal daily transactions...paypal is fine and convenient. i never leave more than a hundred bucks in there at one time. i transfer it to my bank account before it even hits $100 to be safe. and i usually won't use it for over a grand per transaction....and then only with someone i trust not to dispute it. so no prob dude, no cops are going to trace your account and find out if you bought illegal this or that, leave it all blank......just be careful and do it right like i just explained and you will be fine. jesus, alarmists alarmists alarmists. 
although like i said...if i were doc and lost a house DP over it, someone WOULD pay dearly. 
although like i said...if i were doc and lost a house DP over it, someone WOULD pay dearly. WARBIRDWS6 said:lets not scare the guy about paypal. now if my 20,000 bucks in walmart stock i sold were transferred to paypal and they froze my account so i couldn't pay off the black car and put a DP on my house like i had just done...i would kill someone. but we are talking about a couple of bucks and one transaction. for normal daily transactions...paypal is fine and convenient. i never leave more than a hundred bucks in there at one time. i transfer it to my bank account before it even hits $100 to be safe. and i usually won't use it for over a grand per transaction....and then only with someone i trust not to dispute it. so no prob dude, no cops are going to trace your account and find out if you bought illegal this or that, leave it all blank......just be careful and do it right like i just explained and you will be fine. jesus, alarmists alarmists alarmists.
Bro, they are SUPPOSEDLY a PROFESSIONAL money transfer service. Read your posts and all the caveats you've stated about them. I don't have any of those reservations with evocash, western union, real banks, off-shore banks, etc. So why should we have them with Paypal but not worry? Sorry, bud, I HATE Paypal. They are unprofessional, insecure, and unsafe, and I will NEVER do business with or through them again.
Think about it, would you bank at a bank where you'd only keep <$100 on deposit at any time, and have to keep the rest "safe" at your house? Would you use an on-line stock trading service where you only trusted them to hold the notes and you could never leave more than $100 cash in the account?
Anywho, it's all a matter of opinion, I just know what I've had to deal with, and the company is ass. If you DO have a problem, good luck. If you don't, well, I guess you never have to worry about how poorly the company (Paypal) handles things.
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WARBIRDWS6
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bebaumax said:
i have had only good experiences with them so far...so until they fuck me i'll use them. but i am always cautious like that....i want my money in a bank not some online deal. WU charges too much BTW. otherwise they are great. $15 pretty much flat rate to start is way high. for larger orders of course WU is best even though they charge a lot....for smaller orders, or "legal" small orders...paypal is preferred by me. until they fuck me that is.
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WARBIRDWS6
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^^^bump for me using paypal two minutes ago to buy a-dex (for my labs research project of course). nothing bad happened. just paid the people the money and stuff. lol. :havoc:
