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* PayPal makes you spend money that you HAVE. A credit card doesn't. Not strictly true, you can register a credit card on your Paypal account and charge that e
by hellweaver666 17y ago
* PayPal makes you spend money that you HAVE. A credit card doesn't.
Not strictly true, you can register a credit card on your Paypal account and charge that each time you make a transaction if there are no funds in PayPal.
- ajross 17y agoNot true at all, in fact. Paypal has routinely refused, over several years of trying, to link to my bank account (a small "Internet Bank"). Credit card purchases are my only option, and they work instantly and without trouble. The occasional inbound money flow from an eBay sale or whatnot just becomes a credit on my next purchase. As a customer, at this point I shop only at merchants where I already have a account memorized (which in practice means "amazon.com") or via Paypal or Google checkout payments, which I can also authenticate from memory. Everything else is just too much of a hassle. I can see the seller-side complaints against Paypal as valid, I've just never experienced them myself. As a buyer, though, I completely sympathize with the linked blog. Paypal or something similar (Google checkout, Amazon affiliates) really should be more popular than it is.