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I Hate PayPal

27/03/08

09:10:31 pm, by alt3rn4tiv3

, 134 words,
Categories: General / Random

I Hate PayPal

Yesterday, I checked my mail and was pleasantly surprised to receive a mail -

In my mind -

It the was first donation I had received through this blog. Thank you to ptc4free[-_AT_-]gmail[-_DOT_-]com for your generous contribution!

10 cents can buy lots of things. For example, a fishball -

Alright. Enough of the lame stuff. To the main point of this post. I was very happy, receiving the first $0.10 of donations. Thus, I logged in to PayPal and checked my updated earnings. Alas, PayPal felt that it was unjustified for me to have $0.10 extra in my funds -

I can’t even but a fishball now. Sigh.

The fees of 2.4% + $0.50 SGD to 3.4% + $0.50 SGD should be removed for transactions that are less than $0.50. Or maybe even up to $1.00.

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Comment from: anant shrivastava [Visitor]

· http://blog.anantshri.info

few suggestions for you regarding paypal.

1) don't go for business or premium account unless you have a use of it.

2) the charges are cutted only when transaction is through credit card.

hope this removes or reduces some of your grievances with paypal.

Permalink 04/04/08 @ 05:54

Comment from: Josh Rodarte [Visitor]

· http://coinmachine.info

HAHAHA! Oh man I am sorry, did not know you would not recieve the donation. I pay tons of people via paypal at only 10c usd. I'll send you a bit more, since you posted about it

xD

Permalink 04/14/08 @ 19:43

Comment from: RichardS [Visitor]

"The fees of 2.4% + $0.50 SGD to 3.4% + $0.50 SGD should be removed for transactions that are less than $0.50. Or maybe even up to $1.00."

The only problem with that is people would just send other people 10 payments of $0.50 instead of $5 and PayPal would get none of their fees.

Permalink 06/24/08 @ 06:37