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Talk:PayPal

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great topic. haven't read yet because I'm in a tldr mood. anyone some things this needs cover:

  • how to get ppl to paypal u stuff (see camwhore)
  • paypal money to ED
  • paypal as drama-generating technique
  • paypal slang (saying "paypal" instead of "pay" at all times)


--Quasidan 03:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

what we also need is that screencap jameth got from CNN where the CC guy mistyped "papal" as "paypal." --kh/ what 07:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also, Paypal is regulated by the EFTA, which is in many cases better for consumers and merchants than UCC Article 4, which regulates checking (and highly favours banks) and only slightly worse than Reg Z, which regulates credit cards, so it's hardly above the law.--Poko_fister (talk) 13:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)


Okay I added some stuff. My only innacuracy is about safe payments because it still lets you use money orders and if you don't mind spending hundreds of dollars, you can get a merchant account for credit cards--I'm sure these will be banned from ebay soon. I just ask that nobody make this too inaccurate because the humor of it is how easily this can work. Samsara 01:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Ways to Scam the Scammers

Don't see anything in this section that indicates the people you intend to scam are themselves scammers. I used to sell on eBay for fun, not for profit until I encountered someone who filed a fraudulent "Item not as described" against me. I knew he was out to rip me off, but I also knew there wasn't much I could do, so I just said send it back and I'll refund your money. He didn't want to send it back, but he did want his money. Paypal gave him both. I used to give people great deals on good stuff I didn't want anymore, and these scams chase away the small sellers who think "Writing the cost of fraud into our business models" as Paypal suggests we do is absolutely fucktarded. Acquiring free items by way of "Item not received" and "Item not as described" is about as common and about as creative as the Nigerian 419's, and it is the cancer that is killing eBay. You don't get good deals or unique items on eBay anymore because these scams have chased away all but the large sellers who can afford to anticipate and absorb the fraud that is to be expected. There is literally nothing a seller can do when a buyer decides he did not receive the goods, regardless of whether or not you have delivery confirmation. Paypal states in disputes that it disregards "Third party information" as they can not "verify its context or authenticity". Whoever wrote all this should see a doctor immediately for treatment of their CTS.

  • This article attempts to explain things like what happened to you but make it funny. PayPal is the internet's #1 biggest scam and because everyone knows it, PayPal always is claiming it is safe. Ritegroic 08:53, 14 April 2008 (CDT)
  • I redid it a little based on your comments. Ritegroic 23:32, 14 April 2008 (CDT)

Dragonfire's idea

User Dragonfire.

I just discovered a new and superbly efficient way to better up paypal by keeping their legal staff actively engaged without much help, filling out one online form helps if you are afflicted:

if you buy something, pay by paypal and do not receive it fill up a claim for haviing received a facsimile or fake, don´t fill any text in the form as not needy. This serves two purposes: a lousy seller can not discard your claimt even if lower than 30 dollars 8 and paypal allows to discard such claims up to 5 times a year without any shipment proof!!)and will refund you, if not the trap kicks in:

paypal will ask you to file a police report in against the seller without naming a legally binding timeframe to do this. If not filling a police claim paypal will close the dispute in against you but ALSO WILL NOT PAY OUT TO THE SELLER. Now you can go and file a police report in agaisnt paypal and the website the biz took place as nobody else then them had fingers on your money. For increading fun, ask paypal for their verification of sellers identity and for the correspondance they had with the seller according the issue, both information is owned to you by like all law systems and laos paypal´s own TOS.

Result: paypal will call you up lesser than 48 hours in after you passed the claim number along will beg and plea you to also sue the seller himself and comes up with unasked detaisl liek that they where unable to recover funds of sellers account ( again without proof you now have the right to ask for).... epic win will ensue and get us all a better paypal as ebay will not allow google or amazon checkout and similar cometiting services on their site and like all of us still use ebay sometimes, amirite ?

—The preceding comment was added by Dragonfire, who is too much of a fucking retard to sign his or her own posts. IT'S 4 TILDES (~), NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

  • If you can write that coherently, it should go in the article. Ritegroic 15:39, 26 September 2008 (CDT)
  • Well you sounded like you had a good idea, so I re-read what you wrote a dozen times. It's still pretty incoherent. Maybe English is not your first language. If you can make that coherent and readable, it would be good. Also, nobody needs paypal, google checkout, amazon, or any of these online payment services. There's been a good method of paying online all along. It's called a Western Union Money Transfer / Moneygram / instant cash transfer service. It's the best! Once you get the money, it is safe to ship the goods knowing a buyer can't steal the money back or anything. For buyers, it's the best way to pay when buying an expensive item, especially from a seller in Nigeria. Ritegroic 15:47, 26 September 2008 (CDT)
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