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I avoid PayPal, but in the rare case where there is no other payment method possible and i really need something, i simply create an account, do the transaction
by DavideNL 7y ago
I avoid PayPal, but in the rare case where there is no other payment method possible and i really need something, i simply create an account, do the transaction, and immediately delete the Paypal account again.
I find this the best way to deal with them :)
- stevekemp 7y agoI opened my paypal account in Sep 2003, and deleted it in November 2013. Even though I didn't have to concel their "support team" it started to feel like a scammy site I couldn't trust by 2010 or so. I've found a few sites over the years which only supported Paypal as an option, in every case I've chosen to buy elsewhere or not at all. Paypal is not a company I could support.
- herghost 7y agoI once closed my account only for it to be re-opened 4-5 months later by them with a debt balance assigned. Long story short is that someone I'd previously transacted with owed them money so they determined that they would take it from my account and recover it from me. I complained the Financial Ombudsman in the UK. They agreed with my position that it was unreasonable for me to be held financially accountable for people I've transacted with indefinitely. Paypal stuck to the line that "You cannot close your account in order to avoid a debt". Despite the fact that I had no debt, except the one they assigned me several months after account closure, out of nowhere.