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$81 Billion Gas Tab

Posted by samzenpus on from the really-big-tank dept.

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."

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  1. PayPal ruining the eBay experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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!