What's your experience with paypal?

[fistfullofsteel]

What's the verdict on paypal? Is it safe? What's your experiences with it? I remember Animal practically writting an article on his website that they are practically scammers. What's the 411?

 

[BangedUp]

never had a problem with them.

I use them for most of my ebay transactions.

 

[Hoopsdaddy135]

Easy and honest. I've had thousands pass through PayPal. I use it to pay for eBay and I hav a Debit Card connected to it. 1.5% Cashback, not bad.

 

[fistfullofsteel]

what's the transaction fees, can i use a mastercard if i want to transfer money overseas to a family member?

 

[JOKER47]

No problems purchasing with it. I think I remember the problems people were reporting were when you were the one RECEIVING the payment.


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Joker

 

[grlpwrd]

I've been selling on ebay for over 4 years, but I've used PayPal for 3 years. There are some people who gripe about it, but I haven't encountered any problems..yet. Here's a website that's been circulating around for people with PayPal gripes: http://www.paypalwarning.com/

I just made sure I verified a bank account with them that doesn't have access to my primary account..you know, get a secondary account. That way if anything goes wrong Paypal can't screw me over, claim I am committing fraud or something, and take my $$ or freeze my account.

Hope this helps...

 

[AAP]

www.paypalsucks.com

 

[HappyScrappy]

I have no issues with paypal for small person to person transactions.

but it is unsafe for businesses to use (there are security holes in it where you can cheat how much money is really sent) and if you have a lot of money in your account, paypal can be dicks to deal with it, locking it to investigate it and such.

so as long as you only have a couple of thousand or less in there, and you are only doing small one on one transactions, paypal if just fine.

 

[Vixi]

I have used Pay Pal for a few years for my eBay transactions and it has been really great.

eBay just aquired Pay Pal so that will probably mean some changes in the near future. Waiting to hear about increased fees and more limits on service. (Even though they say there won't be changes forthcoming ....I've heard that one many times before from eBay and it usually precedes several changes.)

 

[c-sharp minor]

I ordered the Mr. O through paypal. I tried 3 times and my order said "waiting for verification from paypal". The last time I tried I let it go for over 2 hours and still nothing. I cancelled every transaction BEFORE it went though.

2 days later I have 3 charges on my credit card for watching the Mr.O though paypal. I never even got to see the show! Not one of my e-mails has been answered either.

FUCK PAYPAL!!!!!!!!

 

[kronk]

Paypal did suck pretty bad, but now Ebay owns them and them seem pretty good. I sent some cash the other day and everything worked perfect.

 

[greenday]

I accept Paypal on my site, and I haven't had any problems, btw the site is in my signature. My only complaint is their fees are pretty high, 30 cents per transaction, plus 3 percent, it really adds up fast.