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While some people may have various business reasons for wanting multiple PayPal accounts linked to one bank account, I've run into this problem for another reas

While some people may have various business reasons for wanting multiple PayPal accounts linked to one bank account, I've run into this problem for another reason that I imagine is even more common: I'm married. My wife and I both have PayPal accounts. But guess what, PayPal? We have but one bank account. You know... a joint account... like I'm sure a vast majority of married people have. What a stupid rule.

mindstab 15y ago
You probably had separate bank accounts once too. You merged those, what is holding you back from merging paypal accounts? Seems like it would be the easier of the two operations.
- lomegor 15y ago
  I think it's against the terms to have a joint PayPal account. I'm sure I read that somewhere and it is the standard for most web services (accounts can only be used by one person).
- Angostura 15y ago
  Do Paypal Ts&Cs let multiple people use the same account?
- jack-r-abbit 15y ago
  Well... nothing now (other than I don't want to). But at the time I was using mine for business purposes so it wasn't really a great option.
lomegor 15y ago
PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. The only problems is that you need to be married and share the same last name. This may make sense in the US, but in a lot of other parts of the world, you don't take your husband last name when you marry. I'm tired of PayPal too, but just wanted to let you know that there may be a solution to your problem.
- jack-r-abbit 15y ago
  > PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. Thanks. That must be new in the recent years as I don't believe we had that option when we had that issue... but its been a while. It is no longer an issue since we don't really use PayPal much anymore.
- mdc 15y ago
  >share the same last name. This may make sense in the US That counts me out. My wife was well-known professionally before we were married, so she kept her name. In my circle of friends, I know a handful of others to whom this also applies. Paypal's policy might have made sense in 1950's US, but not in the US as it is now.
  - pbiggar 15y ago
    Completely off topic, but I wish this could have just said "my wife uses her own last name" or something like that. It reads like your wife needs an excuse to keep her last name, which I'm sure isn't the case, but is indicative of the weird - slightly misogynistic - society we're in where the default is for women to give up their names at marriage.
    - _delirium 15y ago
      Descriptively I think that's still the case, at least on average: most women who have no specific "reason" to keep their name adopt their husband's name, while rates of not doing so are much higher if there's some reason it would be actively advantageous not to change names (e.g. an academic with a publication record under her name). Among my circle of friends, even among academics, the tendency towards changing seems to be fairly high; those who got married late-ish with a significant publication record didn't switch, because it would seriously dilute their name recognition / citation counts / etc., but those who got married in grad school with 2-3 existing publications have all switched. Not entirely sure whether it's tradition or personal reasons or family or what.
    - coderdude 15y ago

mindstab 15y ago

You probably had separate bank accounts once too. You merged those, what is holding you back from merging paypal accounts? Seems like it would be the easier of the two operations.

lomegor 15y ago
I think it's against the terms to have a joint PayPal account. I'm sure I read that somewhere and it is the standard for most web services (accounts can only be used by one person).
Angostura 15y ago
Do Paypal Ts&Cs let multiple people use the same account?
jack-r-abbit 15y ago
Well... nothing now (other than I don't want to). But at the time I was using mine for business purposes so it wasn't really a great option.

lomegor 15y ago

PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. The only problems is that you need to be married and share the same last name. This may make sense in the US, but in a lot of other parts of the world, you don't take your husband last name when you marry. I'm tired of PayPal too, but just wanted to let you know that there may be a solution to your problem.

jack-r-abbit 15y ago
> PayPal does let you use the same joint bank account in two accounts. Thanks. That must be new in the recent years as I don't believe we had that option when we had that issue... but its been a while. It is no longer an issue since we don't really use PayPal much anymore.
mdc 15y ago
>share the same last name. This may make sense in the US That counts me out. My wife was well-known professionally before we were married, so she kept her name. In my circle of friends, I know a handful of others to whom this also applies. Paypal's policy might have made sense in 1950's US, but not in the US as it is now.
- pbiggar 15y ago
  Completely off topic, but I wish this could have just said "my wife uses her own last name" or something like that. It reads like your wife needs an excuse to keep her last name, which I'm sure isn't the case, but is indicative of the weird - slightly misogynistic - society we're in where the default is for women to give up their names at marriage.
  - _delirium 15y ago
    Descriptively I think that's still the case, at least on average: most women who have no specific "reason" to keep their name adopt their husband's name, while rates of not doing so are much higher if there's some reason it would be actively advantageous not to change names (e.g. an academic with a publication record under her name). Among my circle of friends, even among academics, the tendency towards changing seems to be fairly high; those who got married late-ish with a significant publication record didn't switch, because it would seriously dilute their name recognition / citation counts / etc., but those who got married in grad school with 2-3 existing publications have all switched. Not entirely sure whether it's tradition or personal reasons or family or what.
  - coderdude 15y ago