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Poll: Is your PayPal email address also your primary email address?
Where "Paypal email address" is the one you use when you login to PayPal and "primary email address" is the one you use the most, day-to-day or would otherwise be checking frequently.
If the above definition doesn't make sense to you, try answering this question instead: If email is sent to the address you use to login to PayPal, will you see it promptly (within say, a few days at least if not earlier)?
Just trying to get some data for a project I'm working on. Any assistance much appreciated.
- cperciva 16y agoAccording to your definition, my "primary email address" varies from day to day. I would say that I have three primary addresses -- one for personal email, one for FreeBSD or other open source related email, and one for anything Tarsnap related. Which I'm using the most on any particular day depends on what I'm doing that day. (And that's not counting the gmail address I use for anything Google-related; my university address, which I use mostly for university governance matters; my Tarsnap AWS account email address; the FreeBSD Security Officer address I use when I want to make sure people pay attention to the email I'm sending; etc.) But if it helps: Most of those addresses are linked to my PayPal account.
- gaelian 16y agoI can see how this would make my question difficult for you to answer. Perhaps I should amend the explanation a little. It's always hard to try and account for people's individual interpretations when I do this kind of stuff. Maybe it's just best if I stick around and answer queries.
- Xuzz 16y agoI'm not sure what to put -- I use Google Apps's "catch-all" feature for my domain, so I have it as paypal@example.com (I also do this for most sites requiring registration, e.g., HN is hn@example.com). While it does end up at the same inbox in the same domain, it's not quite my primary email.
- gaelian 16y agoIf it helps, for my purposes, I'd call you a 'yes'. :)
- wlievens 16y agoYes. You gonna send me money? :-)
- gaelian 16y agoNo. However, I was going to say I can pay you the princely sum of one shiny upvote for your participation, but it appears I can't even do that. Or if I can, it's not showing up. :-( You'll have to settle for me thinking "Thank you, wlievens" really, really hard.
- dangrossman 16y agoNope. PayPal only allows one business account per entity, so while I accept PayPal payments at multiple websites, there's only one primary e-mail address. I use a generic address for PayPal which is not any of my normal mailboxes. I do check it about once a day just in case there's a payment dispute or chargeback I need to handle.
- juiceandjuice 16y agoNo, but that account forwards to my primary. I keep it separate for security reasons.
- flawawa2 16y agoWhat reasons would that be?
- whatevers2009 16y agoPhishing emails would be a good start. I have the same setup as well. It makes more sense to have it forwarded and labeled coming in rather than give away your real email. This way if someone sends you fake mail to your daily use email but its not labeled from one of the secondary accounts you use to actually run your personal stuff, you know it's balony.
- frou_dh 16y agoYes, I use one email address on my domain for everything. I have no need for a more nuanced email setup.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoI'm surprised this has so many yes votes. I thought that in tech circles people tend to give out different email addresses for each online service they use...
- bodyfour 16y agoWell the question did say "If email is sent to the address you use to login to PayPal, will you see it promptly" I do have a paypal-only email address but it does get routed to my primary account. During waking hours I'll probably see an email sent there within the hour. So I guess that means "yes" The poll question would have been clearer as a tristate
- gaelian 16y agoYeah, sorry for the somewhat nebulous nature of the question. having direct access only to my own brain, it's now abundantly clear that it's quite easy to fall into the trap of assuming that everyone uses email accounts in a similar way to one's self and will classify them the same way too. But you got it right based off cperciva's suggested addition, if you're in a situation where your PayPal email address forwards to an address that you do pay attention to or the like, then that would be a "yes".
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoWell - 10 years ago, that was a common behaviour around me. Today, at least in the bubble I sit in, it's barely the case.
- mariuolo 16y agoIt's a separate email account on a domain I only use in connection with eBay/Paypal. I still see the messages IRT.
- mcherm 16y agoYes. I try to maintain a consistent identity online, and using a single email for everything helps with this.
- pilif 16y agoIMHO, it's better if it isn't as it helps you to very easily detect phishing. In my case, the address I use to log into paypal is only used for my paypal account. Nobody has it on file (unless paypal gives it away to third parties which it sometimes seems to do). So if mail from "paypal" arrives, a strong sign of it being a phising mail is if it sent to any but the specific paypal address. I'm generally using special email addresses for all sites I'm having an account with (<sitename>@(gnegg|pilif).ch, depending on mood).
- allard 16y agoI use an "instantly disposable address" — see http://goo.gl/Dmhyd http://goo.gl/Dmhyd — when the trust is second tier (of three who get an address).
- Macha 16y agoNo to question 1, yes to question 2. The email used isn't my primary address, but it feeds into the inbox of my primary address.
- niico 16y agoNo I created a account called "pay.username@gmail.com" :)
- Arxiss 16y agoI feel it strange with so many YES votes. I thought at least 90% will vote for no, for security reasons. Looks not.