Paypal Agrees to Consumer Protections

davidwr writes "Paypal settled a suit with Maryland and 27 states. Among other things, they'll conspicuously advertise a contact phone number and staff it 14 hours a day and be much more forthcoming about when they will debit your bank account. For those of you who think Paypal Sucks, well, starting soon it sucks just a little less."

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Here is why they sucked 4 me.. .

[deviceb]

I sold some information (nothing exotic). It was only $125 and i delivered my end. -a clean deal. A few months go by and i log into my account and see -125 So i say, "WTF why do i have a chargeback & why was i not contacted seeing how you have all my personal info" (acurate info)

They say i did not suppy tracking information when asked. I had 3 days to send this info before my account was jacked by some little twerp. (zabasearch gave me his home address) I did not check this email because it is only used for paypal, & with no business going on.. why check it?

So not only did i loose the data i sold,.. but i ended up paying somebody to take it for me.
So if you sell something as a "service" how are you to provide a tracking number? Any graphic or website payment can be charged back
-another loophole & it seems that paypal does not give a shat about the person who has been using the service from the beginning.

now i have to deal with the twerp & waste more time.

/end rant

Re:PayPal not sucking?

[Aladrin]

This is modded Funny, but he's absolutely serious. Paypal can and will block your account and SEIZE all of the money in it for any reason whatsoever. Not liking your name is a new one for me, but I've seen plenty of hardship on the web. Newzbin.com, a usenet indexing site, regularly lost thousands of dollars at a time to this practice. They would petition and be re-instated, but lose all their money. It was their main payment method, and most of their customers preferred it, so they kept dealing with it... Until it happened like 3 times in 3 months. They finally called it quits and use other payment methods now.

Paypal DOES suck. And they SHOULD be regulated like a bank. I suspect their business model might have issues if they do, though.

Re:Nope, they'll still suck (0800 358 7929)

[Achromatic1978]

My favourite - sending you an email, dated "day 1". Saying that for whatever reason, they'll action a direct debit on your account in "5 working days, so please ensure sufficient funds". The very next day, you get a call from your bank manager. "A direct debit from PayPal has been dishonoured and you've been charged a fee". Wow, that 5 working days went fast. And of course PayPal bills you for the dishonour fee. And when you ask why, when you eventually get an answer, "Well, we could bill it at any time. We send that email as a courtesy. We chose to do so before then, as is our right."

Bleh. Asshats.

I hate when websites advertise paypalsucks.com

[adzoox]

It is run and sponsored by the competition. The webmaster tries to deny that saying he's just advertising alternatives, but the alternatives advertised on paypalsucks.com are FAR WORSE and just fronts for laundering and identity theft.

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