Paypal say i have to pay the £500 for someone buying a stolen credit card

Sugar_Coated_Owl

There are 2 sides to every story. People who have lost money (usually by not covering themselves properly) will of course say PayPal suck.

If you do things correctly then the majority of the time PayPal is fine.

By plastering PayPal are rubbish all over the place it's just going to worry more people than necessary.

motorguy

"it's just going to worry more people than necessary."

I'd rather "worry more people than necessary", than have them believe the paypal propaganda, then get burnt.

Do you prefer paypals "don't worry everything is fine" approach? Heres the link to paypals "how we protect sellers" page

https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/securitycenter/sell/SecurityForSellers-outside

They use phrases like

"PayPal was built to keep you secure."
"we set the standard for fraud prevention"
"a broad range of security measures"

Then we see things like

"For added protection, send items to a Confirmed Address"

That is blatantly wrong. ADDED protection implies you have protection in the first place - if you don't send to a confirmed address there is NO PROTECTION

So is it better to not worry people and let them potentially lose money, or worry them a bit, have them think twice, have them maybe check the fine print, and then maybe they wont get caught out?

Moglex

razorbladekisses wrote: »

There are 2 sides to every story. People who have lost money (usually by not covering themselves properly) will of course say PayPal suck.

If you do things correctly then the majority of the time PayPal is fine.

By plastering PayPal are rubbish all over the place it's just going to worry more people than necessary.

I don't agree.

People seem very able to miss a lot of the fine print that paypants use to weasel out of doing what people expect of them.

It's important to remind people that:

Paypal are Rubbish

And get them to read:

https://www.paypalsucks.com

so that they can make an informed opinion for themselves.


Trying to pretend that paypants are wonderful isn't really helping anyone (other than paypal), is it?

Sugar_Coated_Owl

Making them out to be !!!! isn't helping either.

pennylane99

As a buyer...I have no problems at all with Paypal...:D

Moglex

razorbladekisses wrote: »

Making them out to be !!!! isn't helping either.

I like to remind people that:

Paypal are Rubbish

And get them to read:

https://www.paypalsucks.com

The important point being that they can then make an informed opinion for themselves, which is the most important thing, wouldn't you say?

PeteHerts

Shouldnt Paypal not allow people to buy stuff or only allow them to spend a small limit til all they're details are confirmed properly?

motorguy

pennylane99 wrote: »

As a buyer...I have no problems at all with Paypal...:D

And i'm sure you probably never will have. paypals priorities when there is a problem are

(a) making sure paypal arent out the money
(b) making sure the buyer isnt out the money
(c) making sure the seller isnt out the money

motorguy

razorbladekisses wrote: »

Making them out to be !!!! isn't helping either.

Better a pessimist proved wrong than an optimist proved wrong - particularly when it comes to things like a significant sum of money.

motorguy

PeteHerts wrote: »

Shouldnt Paypal not allow people to buy stuff or only allow them to spend a small limit til all they're details are confirmed properly?

Now thats a good idea.