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$81 Billion Gas Tab
denobug writes "Ever wonder how expensive a tank of gas could get? How about $81 billion! Juan Zamora had his PayPal debit card maxed out after a routine gas fill up, the transaction cost him $81,400,836,908. Makes me wonder whether the glitch is the debit card transaction system or in PayPal's system."
So he called customer service for PayPal... [who] argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes. Like I had to prove that I didn't pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!
Yes, in the late 1990s I had trouble with PayPal. I emailed customer service about a dozen times and never got a response back. I have never considered using PayPal again.
Assuming 2 dollars per gallon, the man would have had to purchase 40700418454 gallons of fuel to generate such a bill. That is 1.54067844 × 1011 liters, 154 067 844 cubic meters or 0.154067844 cubic kilometers of fuel. Lets just say, having that much fuel in one place would be a good example of a bad idea.
Lets consider how much energy that would be. Assuming 34.8 MJ per liter there would be 5.36156097 × 10^18 Joules of energy. The Hiroshima bomb released about 6.3×10^13 joules of energy. That would make it about 85104.1424 Hiroshima bombs or about 30 kilograms of antimatter.
I was trying to sell a carpet shampoo machine on eBay. It's been about 4 months of non-activity of selling anything through their "directory service" (it's not an auction site anymore than it is a super-market aisle). I clocked 20 minutes just to navigate through their crud Item/Seller's interface and clicked for the next screen to finish list.
Guess what it said at the top of the screen in bold RED LETTERS? You guessed it; please select an electronic payment method... I looked down where I overlooked the fine print, low and behold; only PayPal to PayPal payments are allowed. I did the smallest of math to determine that after my item was to sell at a value I expect, just by eBay Admin forcing eBay memers to use PayPal would land that corporation no less that 20% of my property value. Looking deeper into the matter of being libeled as income rather than a non-income trade, I'm losing my a$$ in this God-damn tax scheme. IRS already works fist-in-fist directly with eBay, already impels all transactions to be for-profit income-liable book-keeping entries to skew and equal trade as income, and now I can't use a proper USPS Money Order.
Fuc|< PayPal. Fuc|< eBay. Fuc|< Griffith and Witman! Fuc|< all you all with a rubber hose a$$ to mouth you peices of reptilian sh1t!
My paypal account was recently hacked, and I'm currently in the hole $1400, including bank overdraft fees. It wasn't just my account, too. Two other accounts were compromised (at least) because there were bogus transactions between my account and theirs. That tells me that more accounts were probably compromised, as this could have been a shotgun sequence of attacks.
Needless to say, my paypal account will be closed as soon as I'm refunded. I have no idea if my overfraft fees ($160 and counting) will ever be recovered.