Expecting a for-profit corporation to do the right thing, even if their motto was “Don’t be evil”, is like expecting a smiling shark to swim up and give you a kiss. It’s only in their nature to pretend to be “good” in as far as it serves their real purpose of making money. They don’t avoid polluting or grinding up children to make their meal because they think those are bad things. They avoid it in as far as they’ve been forced not to do it, or in as far as they recognize the bad reaction it would bring down on them from citizens or consumers.

I only use them if there is absolutely no other choice.

If they profit from it , they ought to help pay for it.

And ya, Paypal is nothing but a private tax, held in place by eBay. I’ll be looking into their competition very shortly. eBay is very anti-competative when it comes to payment processing.

I am confused as to why people still use paypal. They have proven time and time again to not be reliable as far as a financial institution. To call them Arbitrary is kind. It appears to me they are basically criminals who hide behind their tos as a way to rip off their customers.

(I’m not sure you’re ever going to get that badge, Church)

This fucker is despicable. Freedom for him to crush anybody else, it seems.

https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/02/paypal-statement-on-courage-to-resist-situation/

Anonymous needs to kick in some paypal ass. Or someone who works for paypal needs to sneakily get into their server rooms and start yanking cables. If I worked there this would be more than enough to turn to sabotage… ARE YOU LISTENING PAYPAL EMPLOYEES?? Stand up for what is morally correct, not what puts $ in your pocket or keeps the Feds off your backs.

This is wrong, America. When are you gonna do something about this cascading failure of your institutions to protect citizens? Leader of the free world, my fucking ass.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I didn’t know going in that this was going to be such a funny post.

The internet is overflowing with stories of Paypal ripping people off and dipping into peoples’ bank accounts without authorization.

In fact, the kind of publicity this story got has pretty consistently proven to be the ONLY way to get Paypal to back down on a dispute (that or bring some heavy legal guns to bear).

That’s a marksmanship badge. A large portion of the US Army has them.

A year or so ago, another Paypal scammer emptied my mother’s account (they’re divorced). Since my mother’s account was with a credit union, it took 2 weeks to restore the balance. Both of them follow standard security measures.

Paypal blew off both of them. When my father called, the Paypal rep accused my father of buying the $1700 guitar in Jakarta and trying to defraud Paypal. My 70+ year old, North Carolina born, southern drawl, decorated military vet father. Similarly, they accused my 60+ old mother of trying to defraud them. It seems to be their standard mode – accuse victims of being criminals and deny all responsibility for their inability to secure customer financial data. Fortunately the banks see it differently.

We can now say we are a Paypal free family. No member of my family will ever use Paypal ever again, for anything.

So nothing that Paypal does surprises me anymore. What very little cred they had with me disappeared two weeks ago.

Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksmanship_Badge_(United_States)

(I guess I’m not very proficient as a BB poster)