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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 30, 2004
Pros: Nothing at all
Cons: All the money in your PayPal account, and in your bank account, is at risk.
Summary: PayPal operates outside the banking laws, and does things banks cannot do. Someone stole a person's PayPal account information and tried to send me money with it. I contacted the actual PayPal account owner, and she told me she had not sent me any money. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 25, 2004
Pros: No pros are available. That they will soon be going under!
Cons: PayPal is the biggest and most fraudulent corporation in operation to date!
Summary: We had a PayPal Premier Business Account with PayPal since 2001 and never had any problems until we used them to accept a $15,000 payment from a buyer who purchased an online business from us. Even though PayPal called the buyer immediately after ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2004
Pros: its great when it works
Cons: seems paypal protects scammers and crooks and screws over honest people
Summary: first of all i have been a paypal customer for 3-4 years,you think they would treat me and faithful customers a little better. i sold a playstation 2 on ebay FEB 22nd 2004. the buyer payed me promptly thru paypal $135.00 AND had a confirmed adress ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 5, 2004
Pros: Nice, able to move money
Cons: When PayPal sticks you, can't do a thing ,NADA, Zip. Your account's theirs, no reasoning.
Summary: I have been using PayPal for a few years, and started using it with eBay a few years ago. It is very nice to be able to be a private individual, but still be able to move money around cheaply, and accept payments, of many types. I have been careful, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 21, 2004
Pros: They used to be good.
Cons: They will keep your money for 180 days and you are HELPLESS
Summary: I would like to tell you, if you are considering a paypal; account RUN as fast as you can. I have used them since they started, I have a personal user account and a business account I have over 2200 verified transactions with them. They froze my ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 17, 2004
Pros: NONE PAYPAL IS A GREAT IDEA IF IT WAS RUN LEGALY
Cons: THEY ARE THIEFS, LIERS,THEY HAVE SO MANY CLASS ACTION LAWSUITES AGAINST THEM
Summary: PAYPAL WAS GREAT AT FIRST THEN THEY DO THINGS LIKE LIMIT YOU ACCOUNT FOR NO REASON NOT ALLOWING YOU ACCESS TO YOUR MONEY. BUT THEY WILL LET YOU ACCEPT PAYMENTS OR TRANSFER MONEY INTO YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT FROM YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. THIS IS BAD WHEN YOU HAVE ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 10, 2004
Pros: You can send money with them
Cons: Everything else they offer
Summary: All I must say people is watch out. This is a company that will run circles around you until you give up. I've been using Pay Pal since early 2003. At first everything was great I could send money to a small business I supported and I'd get immediate ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 29, 2004
Pros: Easy for fraudulent buyers and sellers to use.
Cons: Too many to list here!
Summary: A real story about how I was scammed, EVERYONE READ THIS!I was scammed by a REAL PAYPAL EMPLOYEE! (Full details will be made public by many major news agencies) Any protection policies are in place for paypal and for no other reason! Yes, this I think ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 6, 2004
Pros: quick, easy transactions
Cons: VISA AND MASTERCARD TIRED OF PLAYING NURSEMAID TO PAYPAL/EBAY CUSTOMER SERVICE ISSUES!
Summary: Caveat Emptor, I found out today that EVERY CREDIT CARD COMPANY UNDER VISA OR MASTERCARD is tired of being placed in the middle of Paypal/Ebay's customer service complaints AND ALL REFUSE TO CHARGEBACK PAYPAL. This find was due to receipt of a item not ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 31, 2003
Pros: Free service, easy to use, relatively quick, allows you to conduct transactions on eBay.
Cons: Security is lousy, customer support is non-existent, buyer's protection is a farce.
Summary: Bottom line...the service is great for scammers. Did you know you can purchase something on eBay, pay for it via PayPal, and if you didn't get it or something went wrong...you lost your money! If you pay with a credit card you have a legitimate claim ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 29, 2003
Pros: Higher interest rate for stored money than most banks.
Cons: Good luck trying to contact ANYONE at Paypal if you have an issue.
Summary: Here's the horror story where I got shafted the first time - I ordered an item from a vendor and paid for it, I received the item but it was broken. They agreed to refund my money if I returned it. I returned it,... but didn't get my money back. I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 6, 2003
Pros: I get to buy stuff on ebay more easily.
Cons: Their Customer Service policies suck so badly it almost makes the company's pros worthless.
Summary: PayPal... you were so great in the beginning. That's BEFORE I moved from town and had a lapse in use. Two years later, I try to use PayPal only to find, nay... you can't unless you can recall your old address, phone number... unless you have access ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 14, 2003
Pros: widely accepted
Cons: serious security problems and horrendous customer service
Summary: I have read sooooo many reviewers talking about how wonderful Paypal. Let me tell you it isn't all it's cracked up to be. My experience with Paypal has been nothing but problems.... I originally opened the account awhile ago and used it primarily for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 11, 2003
Pros: instant money in your account, able to shop online without a credit card
Cons: fees
Summary: I joined Paypal several years ago and received the five dollar sign-up bonus. Before I became active on eBay this past May I used Paypal for sending money to friends a few times. In order to become verified with Paypal you ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 23, 2003
Pros: Good idea, in theory,
Cons: Bad customer service. Open to crooks. Security.
Summary: I never thought any company could be worse at customer service than a cable or long distance phone company, but PayPal takes the cake. We and another pair were duped by a fake email (from a benchmarkportal.com) claiming to be PayPal. This is where the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 10, 2003
Pros: easy to setup
Cons: zero human support for fraud disputes, insecure system, misrepresents support information on site
Summary: I was reviewing the balance of my checking account and was shocked to learn that $750 had been removed from my checking account and paid to PayPal. I thought that was remarkable since I hadn't made any new purchases with my PayPal account in months. Les ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 4, 2003
Pros: Fast and easy transactions with eBay or other vendors.
Cons: NO fraud protection, NO recourse from fraud, They want their money no matter what.
Summary: PayPal can be a great service that is quick and easy as long as you never get frauded by the seller. This is my experience and the events that occured when I was frauded on Ebay by a seller and I had used PayPal as the payment venue. Understand while re ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 9, 2003
Pros: So darn easy to use and addictive too...
Cons: Those fees will get you everytime...
Summary: A History Lesson Listen up kids. 1999 was a significant year for many of the dotcom's inclu ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 27, 2003
Pros: none that I can think of
Cons: Hard To Reach Customer Service
E-mail answers in 99% autoresponders not addressing problem
Summary: I am a US Citizen living overseas and had an paypal account for years but one day my account was blo ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 25, 2003
Pros: Can't think of any
Cons: Greedy, deceitful and expensive to contact. Hard to contact Customer Service (should be Dis-service)
Summary: Today I used PayPal for the first time with no success. I have been shopping for a vapor vacuum sys ... read more
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