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PayPal.Me
- johnnymonster 11y agopaypal is by far the worst payment processing system that I have ever used...
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- Aoyagi 11y agoWhy?
- dijit 11y agoTerrible site, slow load times, history of poor security. Disenfranchised workers and a bureaucratic nightmare. Along with a history of freezing assets of popular projects for no reason. (wikileaks donations for instance). http://www.paypalsucks.com/ http://www.paypalsucks.com/ https://www.aboutpaypal.org/ https://www.aboutpaypal.org/
- Aoyagi 11y agoI agree that the site isn't great, but I'd still call that above average, especially nowadays. Load times are fine for me (using O12). Poor security? (other than not having two-step authentication) The rest of the things just comes with it being a huge corporation that pretends it's not a bank I guess. Funny thing if you search for PP here https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paypal&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paypal&sort=byPopularity&prefi... Didn't they have some "controversial" privacy policy change recently? Anyway, I still see it as the lesser evil of the widespread totally-not-a-bank payment processors.
- jzig 11y agopaypal.me/support is available!
- Jarred 11y agono longer!
- praeivis 11y agoSorry about that...PayPal.Me isn't available in your country.
- glogla 11y agoI love how you can't even see FAQ or About pages if you're not in the supported country. That's Google Play Store level UX.
- christop 11y agoEven if you are in a supported country, when setting up a page, the "Learn more about our fees" page is a 404: https://www.paypal.com/%7BcoBrand%7D/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees https://www.paypal.com/%7BcoBrand%7D/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees
- rattray 11y agoFrom the FAQ: > Is PayPal.Me available in my country? > We’re adding new regions as fast as we can. Check back often to see if it’s available in your country. That's just seriously bad. "Check back often" -- they won't even provide a list of currently-available countries, let alone a simple "leave your email for updates" box.
- jhildings 11y agoThat's stupid, how can this kind of thing not be "available" in a country? It's totally isolated from the service
- kedean 11y agoIt's a financial service, they're covering their ass from unforeseen tax issues. If some people in Russia decide to use it, and paypal hasn't checked to be sure that this is all completely legit under Russian tax law, there will be huge problems for them.
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- BillPond 11y agoBased on my previous paypal experiences, I would rather send my money with any of the other money platforms that are out there.
- ahmad19526 11y agoPaypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?
- gorena 11y agoThe Venmo team is a different team, located in NYC instead of California, has a brand that people actually like, something something middle managers. This kind of nonsense is standard issue from eBay and I don't think it would have changed in a month of separation.
- rattray 11y agoVenmo has a team in SF now, and eBay doesn't own PayPal anymore. Personally, I think it makes a lot of sense. This seems like a lower-friction flow, especially when requesting money from people who have never heard of Venmo – not everyone trust a payment processor they've never heard of, and PayPal has much broader awareness than Venmo.
- benjaminva 11y agoIt´s available here in Germany and I feared that fees would apply for every transaction but learning from the FAQ, when transferring money between friends/family this is actually free. Given, that in Germany, transactions between banks are free too, the whole cycle of shifting money should be also free for Paypal (omitting costs for running the service of course). I am looking forward to trying it out, it might be much nicer than giving someone the IBAN and letting him handle the transaction via the bank.
- ruxkor 11y agoAn alternative in Germany (or any country adhering to the IBAN/BIC numbering system) is cringle [1]. It uses direct withdrawals (Lastschrift) or wire transfers and does not require the other party to have a cringle account in order to receive money, according to their website. [1]: https://www.cringle.net https://www.cringle.net
- fwn 11y agoCringle transactions are only free since very recently. Prior to that they wanted something between 10 to 20 cent per transaction. Even worse they seem to need six days for your transaction. (It's three days per transaction and they transfer it to their own account in-between)
- mmackh 11y agoIt's fun to get in on services early and have the choice of a username: https://www.paypal.me/more https://www.paypal.me/more
- mangeletti 11y agoTell me about it: https://www.paypal.me/signup https://www.paypal.me/signup It looks like somebody already grabbed https://www.paypal.me/login https://www.paypal.me/login
- newjersey 11y agoThey won't allow me to take PayPal.me/sex or PayPal.me/Google :(
- LinkDJ 11y agoI grabbed https://www.paypal.me/test https://www.paypal.me/test root was also available, sadly 404 was not.
- rattray 11y agoEnjoy the penny! I was curious what the payer experience was like... (impressively slick)
- praseodym 11y agoI grabbed https://www.paypal.me/pages https://www.paypal.me/pages - suprised it worked considering https://www.paypal.me/pages/faqs https://www.paypal.me/pages/faqs, https://www.paypal.me/pages/terms https://www.paypal.me/pages/terms and https://www.paypal.me/pages/1337 https://www.paypal.me/pages/1337
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- christop 11y agoIf you need a refund, just visit https://www.paypal.me/refund https://www.paypal.me/refund — enter an amount and hit send! :)
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- TomGullen 11y agoPaypal, sort out the problems you've had for years on your main site: * Incredibly slow page loads * I have to login twice each time * If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail * It goes on and on
- dopamean 11y ago> If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail Jesus. Is that really true?
- jcoby 11y agoIt happens with cookies as well. It's especially bad on the developer sandbox. If you ever have trouble using the sandbox it's either because your cookie is too big or it's broken for the 11th time this week.
- dud3z 11y agoPlease do this, sorting out the sandbox cookies problems should be at the top of their priority..
- eterm 11y agoPaypal sandbox was always really problematic when I used to have to use it. Full of odd cases where you'd suddenly find yourself outside of the sandbox, or undocumented issues such as needing to run your IPN listener on port 80.
- ilikerashers 11y agoIPN brings back some painful memories - IPNs from settlements, IPN timings...
- tyingq 11y agoOh paypal. https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/My-Feedback-for-PayPal-Archive/Paypal-Please-fix-the-cookie-problem-it-s-been-years/td-p/462983 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/My-Feedback-for-PayPal-A...
- _jomo 11y agoIt doesn't show error messages when a transaction fails, it just does nothing. I had to look at the JSON response to figure out it was denied.
- gorena 11y agoI attempted to sign up with a 50 character 1Password-generated password, and was told that passwords cannot be longer than 20 characters. I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext. Use with caution.
- murbard2 11y agoOr they just have length bounds on every string input that they have (as they should) but the person in charge of deciding the bound for the passwords did a bad job and picked too low of a limit.
- atonse 11y agoNormally I'd cry foul but 20 alphanumeric characters (roughly 64^20, or 1e36 combinations) is more than sufficient.
- chaz72 11y agoThe issue is not the 20 characters, but the underlying reason for it. There's no technical reason they would need it unless they were storing it insecurely. Granted it's possible they're limiting it to 20 for a nontechnical reason, but I have some 40-character passwords in a password manager. Long passwords are not only reasonable, but this is a giant alarm bell if they even imply they might be storing them insecurely.
- nicpottier 11y agoWhat are you talking about? Taken to its logical conclusion you would have sites support passwords up to a million characters or else it is a sign that they are insecure. Having some limit is perfectly sane. I also find it a bit "armchair quarterbacky" to be calling out PayPal on security practices. They've been around the block a few times, and though I certainly don't love them, they aren't making rookie mistakes like not-hashing passwords or the like. You are just spreading FUD for no discernable reason. 20 characters while not the epitome of greatness, isn't a sign of the end times.
- colinsidoti 11y agoAhh I tried doing this with Stripe and Stripe Checkout on StripePal.com but they wouldn't let me do it because money services businesses aren't allowed :( I really like this concept though. If I wasn't paranoid about frozen assets I would be happy to use it.
- Geeek 11y agoSo its like Square cash but owned by PayPal? Thanks but no.
- Kluny 11y agoTried /reddit, /cocacola, and my first name - all taken. Got /sjg, my initials, but now I want to go back and get /rocketships, since that's my domain. Damn! They only let you have one!
- nicpottier 11y agoDeja vu? For those of us who have been around a while, we might remember this as being PayPal's original purpose in life. I remember paying back friends for lunch using PayPal and feeling like we were living in the future. Only later did PayPal move into the merchant space more seriously. Maybe my memory is poor and they launched with merchants at the same time but it took a few years for me to ever purchase anything with PayPal, it was all between consumers before. So ya, welcome back PayPal?
- colinbartlett 11y agoI remember when PayPal was x.com. You'd tell people you could send them money via text message and they'd say, "What's a text message?"
- Phogo 11y agoThey really need to vet these signups, just got, http://www.paypal.me/official http://www.paypal.me/official
- jessaustin 11y agoThey need a more complete word list. They specifically disallowed "paypal" and "bitch", while allowing "official", "pay", etc.
- kome 11y agoJust to test, send me money: https://paypal.me/martino https://paypal.me/martino Edit: Thank you for your €0,10 kind stranger!
- willis77 11y agoLooks like they forgot to test for negative values. I put in -200.00 and it seems to have withdrawn the money from your account without problems ;)
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- kmfrk 11y agoWhat happened to the story of PayPal handing over users' phone numbers to robocallers? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/03/paypal-robocalls https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/03/paypal-robocall... Did it turn out to be true? I haven't deleted my account yet, but I haven't made new purchases nor signed any new agreements since then. Especially since there may not even be a guarantee that they won't do it to people with "disabeld" accounts. Edit: I just registered the .me account for my regular name, so I won't have someone posing as me or getting payments from people who've confused the owner with me, as a precaution.
- weego 11y agopaypal.me/ramen. The new microfunding service for poor oss devs
- jbb555 11y agoWhat is the purpose of this? It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile? This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem
- colinbartlett 11y agoI am guessing you are outside the U.S. because here it's actually a still a real nuisance to transfer money between banks. There are plenty of attempts to solve this problem though. Square Cash, Venmo, etc.