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Mikej
| | Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | 
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Thanks for the offer UncBuell, but I'm just going to shop locally for the item, appreciate it just the same though.
Chellum,
I've been finding links that the hover trick doesn't work on now, and a right click to the properties of it doesn't give up much either, and an active click on it gives you the appearance of a valid address in the address window but I suspect is really just a fake address window. Kind of like those pop up that say to click here to say yes or to click the other here to say no, but in reality either click will take you to exactly where the programmer wanted you to go regardless of what it said on the screen. I could be wrong, but I am suspicious and getting more and more so every day.
'scuse me now as I've got to go check on my Brazillian million that the Thai monk is shipping for me to a storage unit in S.Tanzania where it will be shipped to a Hungarian embassy in Egypt because the shipper doesn't trust his Nigerian contact anymore due to some tattoo scheme the contact fell for. All this just to buy an innertube for a bicycle wheel. Such is life. |
Buellgirlie
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 12:40 am: |
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paypal actually has a lot of safety systems built in. a lot. seriously.
i've been a paypal and ebay user since 1999. i've been an employee of ebay since 2008.
there are literally thousands of people dedicated to your safety at ebay -- and many programmers/algorithms/safety valves/little israeli companies that ebay acquires to protect the accounts.
D |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 02:13 am: |
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I forgot about Dora the Explora being at Ebay now!
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Ryker77
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 04:52 pm: |
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Depending on how your bank is about it, it is a good idea to create a satellite checking account with it's own account number and let that account be the one and only account that is "married" to PayPal.
Then do not use that account for anything else and transfer funds into it from your primary account whenever necessary to make a payment from PayPal.
Make sure you figure out the timing of the transfers. As far as whether or not you can make an immediate or near immediate draw against money transferred into the satellite account. On some small town banks, they want fees and can zap you with a overdraft charge if you get the timing wrong.
That also lets you receive payments from in PayPal, transfer them to the satellite account, and then into your primary account.
Read the fine print on your agreement with PayPal, they can take any and all money have as a balance in PayPal anytime they want. And they can also reach into the account you have "married" to them and help themselves to what is there too if they think it is necessary.
Bad things are not likely to happen but can. I've had buyers go off and me and had eBay do things like freeze my PayPal account against any transactions and also refund payments from my PayPal balance for which I had not received the merchandise back. There were only a couple of those over the years but it took some time to get them straightened out, get my money or merchandise back, and get my PayPal account working normally again.
Jack
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Good info needed to be posted TWICE.
My wife had an issue with paypal. They frooze her money. The did a shotty claim action and the seller didn't respond within paypals time limit. So my wife "won" her OWN money back! Months later paypal reverse the claim and sends my wife account to collections. We do as Jack suggest with different paypal accounts. Took my wife countless phone calls and then when she begin to threatin phone calls to the state DA, BBB, or whomever she could -- they gave both the buyer and seller money! |
Kuuud
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 07:23 pm: |
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The problem I have on Ebay is when people WANT a check or MO and WON'T take PayPal. |
Mikej
| | Posted on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 09:21 am: |
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Dora,
If it doesn't cost you your new job, it would be interesting to hear what the internal people have to say about all this sort of stuff. When all is said and done I guess I still won't refresh my PayPal account. The convenience of using PayPal doesn't outweigh the potential risk and potential hassle for me.
I did buy one item I've been looking for at the local REI this weekend instead of using E-Bay. And the second bigger ticket item I've been looking for will just have to wait until I can get an EmployeeDiscount thru a part-time gig, unless I win the local auction currently running (seller is 60 miles away) where the seller will take a M.O. but which I'll probably just pay cash for face-to-face. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 04:17 pm: |
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A) No reputable organization on the web will ever contact you to "update" your information, ask for passwords, phone numbers or other vital data in email.
B) Paypal gives ultimate convenience and security. You can go on the website and cancel the card instantly if you think it has been compromised, and a new one will be on it's way to you very quickly. During the interim, you can always use the atm card for the account you have linked it to. My favorite thing is that I can send money from cell phone to cell phone instantly.
C) Ebay is great, but as mentioned above, you really need to do your homework before making a purchase. The main thing I'll suggest is make SURE the seller has a WORKING phone number before you buy. When they send you the wrong item, it sucks having to communicate by email only. Found this out the hard way more than once when buying toner cartridges. Took FOREVER to get a refund, but finally did.
D) Don't be a sucker. Follow this rule and everything works out just fine. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 12:45 am: |
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I'm still pissed that Ebay blocked Google Checkout. |
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