Not true and definately not informative - you have 30 days (no more) to file a complaint with Pay Pal. They then take 10 days to make a ruling:
Limitations:
You may only file one claim per PayPal payment
Claims must be filed within 30 days of the PayPal payment
Does not cover cases where you are disappointed with the item you have received
You are limited to two PayPal Buyer Protection refunds per calendar year. If this limit is exceeded, there is no guarantee for full recovery. You will be awarded only what can be recovered from the seller. However, it is possible that the claim can be resolved through the Buyer Complaint Process.
You must be willing to provide information during the investigation process. If we cannot obtain the necessary information the case may be cancelled without a refund.
I use Ebay and Pay Pal a lot. The horror stories have worried me forever, but it really is god damn convenient. Then last month I got fucked by a seller ($345) who had said to allow 2-4 weeks for delivery - which in retrospect sounds like an attempt to get around the Pay Pal 30 day limitation. Luckily, he can't multiply and I filed on the 29th day after seeing he'd unregistered with Ebay and had like 20 negative feedbacks left the 2 days prior.
Luckily Pay Pal found in my favor and actually refund my money... I consider myself lucky.
This is a great reference site for Pay Pal, Ebay and transactions in general.
Not saying Pay Pal is safe, it's dangerous as fuck, but wanted to correct the above "informative" posts timeline.
Does the mechanism for transferring your phone number from one service to another allow for transferring phone numbers from one user to another?
It's not sposed to, but you can get around it. The major carriers once used every nuance of the OSP's (Old Service Provider) bill to make sure that they were who they said they were. For instance, If my name appeared as Rubber_Princess on my AT&T account, I'd either have to start the port under Rubber_Princess or have it changed on their bill. That changed in the last month or so and most of the major carrier dropped to a 3-level validation -- last name, ssn OR tid OR acct# and zip code.
The best thing about this auction, if the bidder's are for real, is that the current high bidder is in Pennsylvania and the seller is in New York... those are different cellular markets and you can't port a number to a different market. Therefore he'd have to start an account in NY and have roaming charges, or move.. or turn around and sell it on Ebay again for a profit (s+h - $49.99 in small print).
"OK, there's one advantage if the results can be seen in "real time," e.g. over the day, while elections are still running. Because then the knowledge that the current results are very close to each other (think Gore-Bush) might have an influence on who decides to actually go voting later in the day."
And would allow the owners (Diebold/government) to see that George is losing Ohio and fix the result. Wonderful thought there. I'll never trust voting I cannot verify visually.
Yes, I now work for a large mobile company and am one of 200 or so that will be handling all your porting needs. That's not exactly true. We reported to training a mere 2 weeks ago, plucked from Wal-Marts, welfare and nursing homes. I'm only barely kidding. We don't know _shit_ and here's the reason: my company put this off _hoping_ the FCC would let the mobile carriers stall for longer (ie, they did _not_ want this to happen). And so they rushed us through what should have been 4-6 weeks training in 12 days, then 2 working days before we go live they train us in Porting... which really only lasted 1 day since the last day (Friday)was spent on cake, speeches and making sure our terminals worked. The highest score on the assesments was an 85%, the average was 65% (though even if you got a 0 you still passed). Not that I'm complaining, I make a lot more money now and have benefits:)
Anyway, take the advice of a professional number porter, wait a few weeks after the start date till we (the operators) figure this crap out.
The DVD content has usually already been paid for by the movies box office. The DVD's a great value because you get so freakin' stuff in addition to the 2 hour movie (vs a 35 minute cd).
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Luckily Pay Pal found in my favor and actually refund my money... I consider myself lucky.
This is a great reference site for Pay Pal, Ebay and transactions in general.
Not saying Pay Pal is safe, it's dangerous as fuck, but wanted to correct the above "informative" posts timeline.
It's not sposed to, but you can get around it. The major carriers once used every nuance of the OSP's (Old Service Provider) bill to make sure that they were who they said they were. For instance, If my name appeared as Rubber_Princess on my AT&T account, I'd either have to start the port under Rubber_Princess or have it changed on their bill.
That changed in the last month or so and most of the major carrier dropped to a 3-level validation -- last name, ssn OR tid OR acct# and zip code.
The best thing about this auction, if the bidder's are for real, is that the current high bidder is in Pennsylvania and the seller is in New York... those are different cellular markets and you can't port a number to a different market. Therefore he'd have to start an account in NY and have roaming charges, or move.. or turn around and sell it on Ebay again for a profit (s+h - $49.99 in small print).
"OK, there's one advantage if the results can be seen in "real time," e.g. over the day, while elections are still running. Because then the knowledge that the current results are very close to each other (think Gore-Bush) might have an influence on who decides to actually go voting later in the day."
And would allow the owners (Diebold/government) to see that George is losing Ohio and fix the result.
Wonderful thought there. I'll never trust voting I cannot verify visually.
Yes, I now work for a large mobile company and am one of 200 or so that will be handling all your porting needs. :)
That's not exactly true. We reported to training a mere 2 weeks ago, plucked from Wal-Marts, welfare and nursing homes. I'm only barely kidding. We don't know _shit_ and here's the reason: my company put this off _hoping_ the FCC would let the mobile carriers stall for longer (ie, they did _not_ want this to happen). And so they rushed us through what should have been 4-6 weeks training in 12 days, then 2 working days before we go live they train us in Porting... which really only lasted 1 day since the last day (Friday)was spent on cake, speeches and making sure our terminals worked.
The highest score on the assesments was an 85%, the average was 65% (though even if you got a 0 you still passed).
Not that I'm complaining, I make a lot more money now and have benefits
Anyway, take the advice of a professional number porter, wait a few weeks after the start date till we (the operators) figure this crap out.
I for one welcome the year 3535, when everything I think do and say is in the pill I took today.
I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
"Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
The DVD content has usually already been paid for by the movies box office. The DVD's a great value because you get so freakin' stuff in addition to the 2 hour movie (vs a 35 minute cd).