http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=4736 (http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=4736)
Seems the Post is leaking info that M$ and eBay are in talks over joint partnerships or M$ buying eBay. Eitherway, the partnership would be a competition venture agains AOL-Google partnership, according to this article.
*Thinks of how badly Hotmail suffered the absorbtion*
Well, that's the end of that, if it happens (hello Amazon!)
...and goodbye creativity and consumer-benefitting competition and free choice! >:(
And here I thought Paypal couldn't realistically get any worse :o
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
And here I thought Paypal couldn't realistically get any worse :o
Don't even joke. Paypal is actually quite nice, relatively unchanged over the last 2 years and it's like a lot of Apple-designed products.
IT JUST WORKS.
Please Redmond Bill, don't do to Paypal what you did to Hotmail... :'(
QuoteDon't even joke.
While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained. And its all ok, because you agreed to it when signing up. Thier TOS is just that good.
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:36:50 PM
QuoteDon't even joke.
While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained.
One call to CIBC can stop that, I wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them ;)
QuoteI wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them Wink
How can you use it otherwise? :o
especially if you dont have, and cant get a creditcard. And not have to wait days to weeks for transfers to and from paypal :o
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:42:05 PM
QuoteI wasn't stupid enough to directly hook my accounts to them Wink
How can you use it otherwise? :o
especially if you dont have, and cant get a creditcard. And not have to wait days to weeks for transfers to and from paypal :o
I do use my Visa, but it's done on a per-transaction basis only. All they have is basic information about me (name, address) and nothing else. They can't take money off my Visa without my authorization and I could stop authorizing it at any time. I don't leave a great deal of credit on PayPal (I'm not worried about losing $6 USD). My agreement is also slightly different with them than with average schmoes since I have been a member on PayPal since 2000, when they were their own company.
Lucky bugger. Heck, I didnt even have a real computer till 97. At least at the time I thought it was a real computer (266mhz, 64MB ram, 6GB hd) I thought it was nice...
The only real computer is the Commodore 64... *sigh*
I had a cousin that had one. I found it boring when loading the 16+ disk games...
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 30, 2006, 05:48:31 PM
I do use my Visa, but it's done on a per-transaction basis only. All they have is basic information about me (name, address) and nothing else. They can't take money off my Visa without my authorization and I could stop authorizing it at any time. I don't leave a great deal of credit on PayPal (I'm not worried about losing $6 USD). My agreement is also slightly different with them than with average schmoes since I have been a member on PayPal since 2000, when they were their own company.
This is true until you go over that $1000 for life mark is it not?
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 09:37:44 PM
I had a cousin that had one. I found it boring when loading the 16+ disk games...
What are these disks of which you speak? Audio tape is the wave of th' future!
Hey! Hey! 16K What does that get you today? (http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/)
Tee hee hee hee heeeeeee. I'm x-tra tired. Maybe that's my new mutant power or coffee powers... The call me Tambit, and my power is I can kinetically charge my own adrenalin!
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2006, 05:36:50 PM
QuoteDon't even joke.
While it continues to work for you, awesome. Yet if theres ever a dispute, your account will be locked, your ballance froze, and in some cases, your bank and credit accounts drained. And its all ok, because you agreed to it when signing up. Thier TOS is just that good.
What you described is right out of "PayPalSucks.com".
Which started before eBay took over. And about a year after eBay took over, most of those types of evil activities were the exception rather than the norm.
I've heard from anti-Paypal'ers who have expressed happiness that "under new management" actually meant things got better. Hope you've never suffered the pains of what PayPalSucks.com and others have described. But in my experience, it is secure, trustworthy, and it does the job. :)
Yeah. I haven't actually had any issues. Besides the fact that you have to have a credit card backing your account or you hit large delays, and some payments wont ever go through.
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 30, 2006, 11:29:24 PMWhat you described is right out of "PayPalSucks.com".
I remember looking up negative reviews of Paypal one evening after (in my previous job) my boss annouced that PayPal was the One And Only Payment Soloution and that we'd be creating all kinds of sites based soley off of using Paypal. I remember how surprised I was at some of the testimonies. Then I read deeper and discovered that most of the complaints were based off of the "old management" or the transition between old & new management. Relieving, but still worrying!
One thing I did learn the hard way with Paypal is never try to use it in a frames-heavy site. I can't remember exactly what doesn't resolve right (possibly the certificate or the Paypal session or both) but man, it just doesn't work crammed down inside a center frameset!
And yet I still do use Paypal myself. I find it useful for situations where I trust the merchant and they prefer using Paypal for immediate payment (for example, paying my Fraga registration fees). I'm no rube though. I recognize that Paypal is still pretty easily shaken to the ground as a service. Before the Microsoft/eBay absorbtion I think I might cancel my account just so I'm not "Lost In Transamalgamation".