Payment
PayPal Robbed Me
This morning, I tried adding a new MasterCard debit card to my PayPal account. PayPal rejected the card — ten times. Unbeknownst to me, and as my bank would inform me later this morning, PayPal charged that same card PhP 45.16 each time. I lost PhP 451.60 (roughly $10) to PayPal even though their site repeatedly “rejected” my new debit card. If they rejected it, why did they keep successfully charging it?
PayPal’s longtime monopoly on online payment has made them both arrogant and complacent. I am only too happy to watch their monopoly fall in the face of big new competitors like Google Checkout and Amazon FPS.
I’ve pulled all my credit cards out of my PayPal account. I am never doing business with PayPal again.
Update, August 14, 9:32 AM GMT+8: PayPal just emailed. They promise to remove the charges in a few days. Let’s wait and see if they make good on that promise.
PayPal for the Philippines: Send-Only
The good news is people in the Philippines can now use PayPal to buy stuff.
The bad news is, we can’t use it to sell stuff. That’s what we really need to do.
Oh well. It’s a start. Keep signing the petition for real PayPal in the Philippines, people.
