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Here's three rules someone once gave me which I can't emphasize strongly enough. 1. Never use Paypal. For ANY reason. 2. Never. Use. Paypal. For. Any. Reason.
by jliptzin 10y ago
Here's three rules someone once gave me which I can't emphasize strongly enough.
1. Never use Paypal. For ANY reason.
2. Never. Use. Paypal. For. Any. Reason.
3. See rule #1.
- lj3 10y agoWhat's the alternative?
- unstatusthequo 10y agoVenmo, Square Cash, etc. Xoom is PayPal now.
- nmy 10y agoVenmo is Paypal as well
- itake 10y agofacebook also has free payments
- kefka 10y agoAnd I want to give Facebook my credit card why? Yeah, no.
- geofft 10y agoWhat is the threat model you envision with giving Facebook your credit card number? Transactions are reversible by calling up your credit card company, and Facebook, for what little reputation it has, still has more of a reputation to uphold and more internal security controls than the local diner where you physically hand your card to a waiter and let them take it out of your sight.
- geekamongus 10y agoWell, you have to have a Facebook account, for starters.
- kennywinker 10y agoFacebook is an ad company. Credit card companies collect and sell purchase history. Giving them your cc number explicitly links your purchase history to your facebook account. Realistically they've probably already made the jump using your name and DOB, but at least they had to work for it...
- briandear 10y agoCredit card companies sell data in aggregate. They don't sell your specific card history.
- cyphar 10y agoIf you're paying for things through Facebook they don't need to contact your credit card company to get a list of payments they've facilitated, for obvious reasons. Given that the best minds of this generation are working on making advertising more efficient, would it be surprising that such information would help Facebook?
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- kefka 10y ago1. Banking industry has some legal requirements. More than Facebook does, for sure. 2. I If you want my purchase history, you can subpoena a bank for it. Whereas I wouldn't be surprised with "App Permissions" to allow to view 'previous purchases'. 90% of people wouldn't know/care. 3. I don't want, nor need every account under the sun hooked up to a SPOF. In this case, it's Fb. That also applies to Google as well. 4. "If you're not paying, you're the product." adage applies. If you want my banking details, you can bloody pay me for that. 5. And, you need not apply if you're: transgender, gay, member of Antifa, or other groups Facebook is discriminating against or has active people causing "reporting storms" to disconnect you from your account. Read about "God" page recently disabled over a "quit funding war and start finding social services" comment. That earned them a 30 day ban, most likely automated.
- eugeniub 10y agoAre you afraid a company like Facebook will make unauthorized transactions?
- Jare 10y agoYou only need to be afraid they will use it in ways you may not approve and may not even know of.
- tdicola 10y agoCash, check, wire, etc.. you know how we've been banking for hundreds of years.
- chrisper 10y agoFor international transfers, I use Transferwise.
- welly 10y agoYou and me both.
- sayelt 10y agoBitcoin.
- Bud 10y agoSquare Cash is absolutely fantastic, and extraordinarily easy to use. The mobile app is great. You can even send money to someone who doesn't even have a Square Cash account yet, by simply emailing them, cc'ing cash@square.com, and putting the dollar amount in the Subject: line. That's it. You can't beat it.
- idunno246 10y agoThey shut down the email address unless you were grandfathered into it :(
- jimktrains2 10y agoThat sounds extremely easy to spoof. Was there more to it to confirm than that?
- lwhalen 10y agoSquare is just as bad as PayPal, IME. Lots of arbitrary rules, clients unable to pay me, funds withheld for no good reason, etc. I'll stick with bank transfers (ACH) or Bitcoin, personally.
- snorrah 10y agoIf it helps, Circle is now usable for UK people. I think it's one of the few that makes UK<>US payments easy. Square Cash is not available in the UK for example. The US has a much larger choice. Unsure about other countries, sorry.
- snowpanda 10y agoAnother vote for circle, too bad they stopped taking bitcoin
- al_chemist 10y agoIf you want total control of your funds - Bitcoin. No TOS, no age check, no account freezing, no corporation behind it.
- robryan 10y agoUnfortunately as an ecommerce site you probably lose some portion of sales by not offering it.
- jliptzin 10y agoThat's not true, I've tested that before. People seem to be used to typing in CC info into a stripe form, for example, and have no problem doing it.