[geeks] UnPaypal?

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:41 , hike wrote:

> your friend has had one or more payments disputed.
> or, your friend has broken the rules by using a personal account to
> sell/buy/tansfer "too much"!
> (a one time, personal accounts were limited by a lifetime maximum $$  
> value.
> upgrading is optional.)
> or, your friend has triggered a "bad-guy profile" for PayPal.   
> (PayPal has
> announced that they have these "profiles".)

*OR*

Paypal screwed up, as they often do.

You don't know any of the above is true, and I've directly witnessed  
the opposite.

I was able to bitch them into submission, but they did the same thing  
to me and it was 100% their fault.

> it appears to me (from my experience, reading the rules, reading the  
> gripe
> sites) that most PayPal "pain" is self-inflicted.

Most pain in all business systems is self-inflicted.

What matters is the situations which are not.  Paypal has a relatively  
high number of those.

Some of it is precisely because they have a near monopoly together  
with eBay, and they can get away with it.

It's kind of a catch-22... Paypal can get you screwed up, but they  
have better service and features, and more secure transactions.

Other services like credit cards have less service/features and  
horrible transaction security, but are more reliable as companies for  
business users.

I guess it is a matter of "they all suck", and you just have to pick  
the one that mostly works, and be prepared to fight them hard when  
they fail.

The sad thing is that we have the technology to do secure money  
transfer, even anonymously without big brother record keeping, and  
reliable.

But, that kind of technology that "just works" isn't what the industry  
wants because it takes power and money away from them.

> PS. one must understand the business and operating rules to deal  
> effectively
> with PayPal.  one must also use "common sense" when dealing with  
> PayPal.

s/PayPal/any business transaction



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