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RE: [RC] PayPal - Teri

Yes, Ebay owns PayPal.

Why there is so much discussion on the subject I have no idea.  If you want
to use PayPal to renew your membership then use it.  If you do not than
print out the renewal and send it in.  It is your decision to make.  I could
understand all the complaining if the only way to Signup or Renew is through
PayPal.

T

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 8:07 PM
To: Laurie Durgin
Cc: dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; teri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] PayPal


Doesn't EBay own PayPal now?

Truman

Laurie Durgin wrote:

Amen to this . We had a couple of  doubled transactions. And not
taking the payments on the agreed dated, but  earlier,  etc. Or using
the  back up  credit card instead of the account agreed on because
they said, "oh, it was easier this way for us". Then when contested,
it took 60 days to get your money back.We had to get them off our
account and close one.
I won't use them. My son only has a savings account for his paypal
that he only uses for certain things and only becasue he is 16 and it
is the only thing he can get.


From: "David LeBlanc" <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <teri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC]   Whats New with SERA
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 22:33:51 -0800


Teri said:

SERA (Southeastern Endurance Riders Association) has added
new items to their site.  You can now join or renew online
your SERA membership.  PayPal only.  You can even open an
account if you don't have one.  It's easy.

I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but there has been a lot of fraud
associated with PayPal. There's only a username and password between
the bad
guys and your money. The username is your e-mail address, which is
freely
available all over the place, so all that protects you is the password.

Searching Google on PayPal and fraud brings up a lot of interesting
sites
with many tales of woe.

Personally, I'd much rather put a check in the mail than ever use
PayPal. If
someone felt like they really wanted to use PayPal the best way to do
it is
to link it with an account that is only used for PayPal, only
contains as
much money as you're willing to lose, and you put money in it when it
needs
to be there.

Here's what http://paypalsuit.com/Phone.htm has to say:

"We strongly recommend that people keep their PayPal balance as low as
possible. Remove funds immediately. Also, use a second banking
account for
Paypal and as soon as those funds are in there, move it to your main
account."

These folks certainly have an axe to grind, but it seems like sound
advice
to limit your risk.

My job is software security and some of the things I've seen and
heard about
would make your hair stand on end, but even so, I do use credit cards
over
the Internet fairly often - there's safeguards in place for those. I
won't
use PayPal.

I'm sure you worked hard to set this up, and I do apologize for
raining on
your parade, but if I still lived in the SE, I'd pay you any other
way than
that. If some of you out there are happy with PayPal, I hope you
continue to
have good luck.




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