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My name consists of four parts and I have a similar experience as your friend. My birth certificate just combines all four names into one string but systems rep

My name consists of four parts and I have a similar experience as your friend. My birth certificate just combines all four names into one string but systems represent me as either having two middle names, two hyphenated last names (which is technically incorrect although one of my middle names happens to be my mother’s surname) or only the first of my two middle names. It hasn’t really caused a meaningful impact on my life with the notable exception of when I was applying for my passport. That ended up turning into a month-long side project of acquiring updated documentation with consistent naming just so I could verify my identity to the passport office. To add more chaos to the equation, I’m transgender and going through the process of changing my legal name now. I feel oddly prepared to handle this given my past experiences with legal name based verification. I’ll probably end up abandoning my PayPal account of 17 years though. I hear you need some sort of blood sacrifice for them to update your name and honestly their service just isn’t good enough.

ValentineC 6y ago
> I’ll probably end up abandoning my PayPal account of 17 years though. I hear you need some sort of blood sacrifice for them to update your name and honestly their service just isn’t good enough. By abandon, I guess you mean closing the old one and creating a new one? PayPal's processes and customer service are notoriously incompetent and customer-hostile. Three months ago, they asked me to provide charity information for my personal account, and subsequently limited my receiving/sending privileges.
- supernintendo 6y ago
  > By abandon, I guess you mean closing the old one and creating a new one? Yeah that seems to be the way to go. Although to be honest I haven’t really used PayPal much in recent years. Apple Pay / Card has pretty much usurped all other payment methods for the vast majority of my purchases. All it needs it single-use card numbers and I think it would be perfect as far as a payment solution is concerned (assuming you’re as invested in the Apple ecosystem as I am). As far as receiving money is concerned, I just don’t see the appeal of PayPal in this day and age. If I’m taking money from a friend who wants to pay me back (for drinks or whatever), I would much rather use something like Venmo or Cash App. Fast, easy, straight to the point. When it comes to e-commerce however, I don’t think anyone holds a candle to Stripe. It doesn’t bring me any pleasure to say that (I don’t love caping for any large corporation) but they really do have the best solution. The APIs are a joy to work with and they really seem to have thought out every situation as far as business requirements and compliance are concerned. Even Square (which you might think is a worthy competitor) fails to provide solutions to specific use cases, something I had to learn the hard way. All in all, I really just don’t see the point of using PayPal in 2020. There are so many superior options out there. But I guess the ubiquity of PayPal means it is here to stay.
  - ValentineC 6y ago
    I use PayPal mainly to pay a subscription to a business that I like, but doesn't want to break anything that's already working. PayPal also gives me the option of cancelling the regular payment on my end. Stripe has nothing like that.

ValentineC 6y ago

> I’ll probably end up abandoning my PayPal account of 17 years though. I hear you need some sort of blood sacrifice for them to update your name and honestly their service just isn’t good enough. By abandon, I guess you mean closing the old one and creating a new one? PayPal's processes and customer service are notoriously incompetent and customer-hostile. Three months ago, they asked me to provide charity information for my personal account, and subsequently limited my receiving/sending privileges.

supernintendo 6y ago
> By abandon, I guess you mean closing the old one and creating a new one? Yeah that seems to be the way to go. Although to be honest I haven’t really used PayPal much in recent years. Apple Pay / Card has pretty much usurped all other payment methods for the vast majority of my purchases. All it needs it single-use card numbers and I think it would be perfect as far as a payment solution is concerned (assuming you’re as invested in the Apple ecosystem as I am). As far as receiving money is concerned, I just don’t see the appeal of PayPal in this day and age. If I’m taking money from a friend who wants to pay me back (for drinks or whatever), I would much rather use something like Venmo or Cash App. Fast, easy, straight to the point. When it comes to e-commerce however, I don’t think anyone holds a candle to Stripe. It doesn’t bring me any pleasure to say that (I don’t love caping for any large corporation) but they really do have the best solution. The APIs are a joy to work with and they really seem to have thought out every situation as far as business requirements and compliance are concerned. Even Square (which you might think is a worthy competitor) fails to provide solutions to specific use cases, something I had to learn the hard way. All in all, I really just don’t see the point of using PayPal in 2020. There are so many superior options out there. But I guess the ubiquity of PayPal means it is here to stay.
- ValentineC 6y ago
  I use PayPal mainly to pay a subscription to a business that I like, but doesn't want to break anything that's already working. PayPal also gives me the option of cancelling the regular payment on my end. Stripe has nothing like that.