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One of my favorites amongst this stupid platforms is PayPal. I have moved countries/continents. Once I forgot to close my account before moving (still had some
by cycomanic 3y ago
One of my favorites amongst this stupid platforms is PayPal. I have moved countries/continents. Once I forgot to close my account before moving (still had some $100 on it), after I could never access it as it wanted a phone call to my non existent former phone number to confirm this is really me, ok my fault. Now I have moved again when I want to pay with PayPal I can't because my account is associated to a different country. It is impossible to change the country. The FAQ say you have to close and reopen a new account), but if I try to close the account I get to an error page. This would all be not so bad if it wasn't for the merchants who use PayPal and disallow payment without an account. In the end the easiest was to just open a new account with a different email.
Somebody mentioned Google services, and that was a big issue as well. I still have bank accounts in my former country of residence, so I need access to apps from that country (the 2fa App that is used there). On the other hand I need to access some apps here (school notifications, banks...) Google obviously knows better than to allow me to get apps from different regions. The solution was again to just create another account. The whole system is really screwed up. I'm not sure what they are actually trying to prevent, considering that in the end one can work around the restrictions quite easily with multiple accounts, but one would think with the world moving closer together these things would actually get easier.
- jamal-kumar 3y agoOh yeah it's crazy, I have three phones for three different countries just to keep up with stuff. A little expensive but at least I can receive sms verification and incoming calls without paying roaming apparently.
- aiProgMach 3y agoYes, PayPal once locked me from reading their developer docs because I opened it from the wrong country. These guys never heard of remote working apparently?
- OJFord 3y agoPayPal refuse to close an account(↑) I didn't knowingly consent to the creation of, and certainly never provided any photographic ID for, because I refuse to 'prove my identity' to delete it. There's not even a real phone number (0s) or address (ABC nonsense) on the bloody thing, but of course giving up some PII they don't have will somehow verify that I have the authority to close an account which is basically name + email address (I've provided those!). (↑: it comes from the scummy dark park pattern checkout process where you say you want to pay with card not PayPal, and the it turns out the card payment is actually provided by PayPal and here you go have an account with the details you provided to the merchant not PayPal, wouldn't that be helpful. It's certainly not GDPR compliant, but try making PayPal care.)
- teddyh 3y agoNote: You probably meant †, not ↑
- OJFord 3y agoWell I meant any character I could type (and find again easily for the second one) that would be unique within the comment and not give me italics, but sure. I often use ^, since it's kind of like 'imagine there's a superscript here', think I just inadvertently held on it and ↑ popped up and up and I went with it.
- teddyh 3y ago> I meant any character I could type Here’s how to type “†”: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger_(mark)&oldid=1180548051#Typing_the_character https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger_(mark)&old...>
- teddyh 3y ago> imagine there's a superscript here A superscript what? It’s an adjective, not a noun.