I just set up Paypal, now what'll I do?

Tardful Slakerly

I just set up Paypal on a whim. I've always made purchases with my card online, now I have Paypal. What can a guy do differently? Maybe nothing.

For anyone who uses Paypal, what are the perks and why do you like it?

Birneybau

Transfer all your money to me and I'll look after it.

Vito Corleone

Bend over and lube up, such a rip off.

Awkward Badger

Paypal is handy for buying stuff from Ebay and Adverts and the like.

Send me things

Ruu

Help out a Nigerian prince, got an email from a fellow needing of money but you will be well compensated for your troubles.

Go eBay mad.

whirlpool

On eBay, some people only accept Paypal as payment.

If you sell anything online, you can receive payment via Paypal, which offers you insurance protection and you don't have to give your bank details to the buyer.

If you buy anything online, you can generally pay by Paypal.

I don't really know what other perks there are. Privacy and insurance would be the main ones I suppose.

spurious

Subscribe to Boards.

Ficheall

[SSF]whatevs[/SSF]

AnonoBoy

Buy a webcam and take your clothes off for strangers for money.

Tardful Slakerly

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Bend over and lube up, such a rip off.

Before I apply the lube, why am I being penetrated in this analogy?

Pugsly wrote: »

Paypal is handy for buying stuff from Ebay and Adverts and the like.

Ebay! Cool. So.. what kind of stuff's good to get off ebay?

bluewolf wrote: »

Send me things

Aww. I have an old lampshade I don't like..

aaronjumper

bluewolf wrote: »

Send me things

Okay but I don't think this will end well. For you.
:pac:

whisky_galore

Please to be sending me $15 good faith money to release funds. God bless.

Awkward Badger

Tardful Slakerly wrote: »

Ebay! Cool. So.. what kind of stuff's good to get off ebay?

Everything and anything that takes your fancy. Its a magical place filled with all sorts of new stuff, old stuff, used stuff, rare stuff, knock off's, duds, crap and bargains all sold by randomer's, shops, companies, scammer's, clowns and chancer's.

Tardful Slakerly

I've just put 50 on my account. What will I do with it? Recommendations welcome.

daveohdave

Pay a psychotherapist to cure your attention whoring.

Tardful Slakerly

daveohdave wrote: »

Pay a psychotherapist to cure your attention whoring.

Wow. Needless, joyless and plain unpleasant. Welcome to my ignore list!

aaronjumper

daveohdave wrote: »

Pay a psychotherapist to cure your attention whoring.

Or pay for Dave to get some anger management.

Kaycee2

Buy a heap of sh!te off ebay, then report the seller to ebay/paypal telling them the item did not arrive, then get a refund

PizzamanIRL

daveohdave wrote: »

Pay a psychotherapist to cure your attention whoring.

This.

What's next? What size socks will I buy? What address will I send them to? Does anyone know if I'm allergic to cotton? What will I have for dinner?

Can I go on your ignore list too? I'll pay you. Through Paypal preferably.

bear1

Pay me

Plek Trum

Donate it???

ABajaninCork

All jokes aside, I find PayPal incredibly useful as I do a lot more online shopping since moving here!

eBay. Very useful, as a lot of sellers will not accept card payments/cheques/postal orders/bankers drafts.

Set up a Parcel Motel account. You can pay for it using PayPal! . Good for stuff online where either the sellers won't post here full stop, or charge you hideous amounts of money to send. Very useful for UK purchases where the postage is free. Simply send to the Antrim address, and all you'll be charged for is the E3.50 to bring it over the border...

Most online shops have a PayPal facility. In fact - I don't buy unless I can pay by PayPal...

upinthesky

Paypal is great, i always use it as i know i will get a refund if an item isn't up to scratch. I'd actually be a bit weary of a site not excepting paypal.

bobbygrant

its useful also for using on offers, eg with bookies new customer offers, free trials, etc where you have already used your credit card to get them. Use paypal and you can sign up for them again.

Birneybau

Tardful Slakerly wrote: »

Wow. Needless, joyless and plain unpleasant. Welcome to my ignore list!

Buy some balls.

Tardful Slakerly

ABajaninCork wrote: »

All jokes aside, I find PayPal incredibly useful as I do a lot more online shopping since moving here!

eBay. Very useful, as a lot of sellers will not accept card payments/cheques/postal orders/bankers drafts.

Set up a... account. You can pay for it using PayPal! . Good for stuff online where either the sellers won't post here full stop, or charge you hideous amounts of money to send. Very useful for UK purchases where the postage is free. Simply send to the Antrim address, and all you'll be charged for is the E3.50 to bring it over the border...

Most online shops have a PayPal facility. In fact - I don't buy unless I can pay by PayPal...

That's the kind of thing I wanted to hear. Thanks for that.

daveohdave

lisar816 wrote: »

I'd actually be a bit weary of a site not excepting paypal.

I'm tired of all sites other than PayPal too. Or is it just PayPal? Double negatives can be tricky.

Tardful Slakerly

Tardful Slakerly wrote: »

I just set up Paypal on a whim.

Buy something whimsical so, perhaps a tasteful painting of a unicorn frollicking on a rainbow, rendered in pastels on velvet?

Or memory cards. You can never have enough memory cards.

MagicMarker

The only thing PayPal is necessary for is eBay. That's it.

But, some other online stores accept payment from PayPal, so it's handy not having to put through your card details every time you want to buy something.

That's about it. There really isn't any need to transfer month INTO your PayPal account.

dmc17

Tardful Slakerly wrote: »

Ebay! Cool. So.. what kind of stuff's good to get off ebay?

Welcome to the internet my friend. You can buy loads of things on eBay such as vancouver smoked salmon, radio frying pans, golf shirts, stake awake pills. You may even be able to purchase a top of the line, trained collie......

Grayson

MagicMarker wrote: »

The only thing PayPal is necessary for is eBay. That's it.

But, some other online stores accept payment from PayPal, so it's handy not having to put through your card details every time you want to buy something.

That's about it. There really isn't any need to transfer month INTO your PayPal account.

Depends. I've found a other outlets that use paypal. It is the largest on-line payment processor in the world so it's a bit more than eBay.
https://shopping.paypal.com/stores


Although the big benefit with using PayPal on ebay is that you get full buyer protection. So you buy an iPhone and it doesn't arrive, you'll get the money back. You buy an iPhone and you get a box with a brick in it, you get your money back. So long as you use paypal on ebay of course.

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Buy a webcam and take your clothes off for strangers for money.

I have a friend who worked fraud in PayPal. He said part of his job was to find out which webcam models accepted PayPal so he could then close their paypal account because there's no porn or gambling with paypal.

Edit: I've used mine more since AIB started issuing visa debit cards. My debit card is now tied to my paypal account so it debits my account in real time and doesn't involve a credit card.

BMJD

WELCOME TO THE WORLDWIDEWEB, FRIEND!

daveohdave

MagicMarker wrote: »

The only thing PayPal is necessary for is eBay. That's it.

But, some other online stores accept payment from PayPal, so it's handy not having to put through your card details every time you want to buy something.

So just eBay then. But not just eBay.

Fozzie Bear

PayPal are breaking my balls at the moment. They "think" a third party tried to access my account. I think it was actually me using a different computer to link my new creditcard to my account. All this sh!t blew up the day after I did this.
End result is they have my account limited now and made me change my password and security questions (twice), send them photo ID and this has dragged on for three weeks now. Incompetent shower of chimps wont reply to e-mails for days on end. Head wrecking.....

looking_around

MagicMarker wrote: »

That's about it. There really isn't any need to transfer month INTO your PayPal account.

Yeah, I've never saw the need of transferring months into it either.

daveohdave

They've shut down entire businesses - big ones -over that kind of thing. You can never have all your eggs in PayPal's basket.

looking_around

Grayson wrote: »

I have a friend who worked fraud in PayPal. He said part of his job was to find out which webcam models accepted PayPal so he could then close their paypal account because there's no porn or gambling with paypal.
.

This is true. but it's more "payers" who 'pay' the model, type "for strip show" (or something similar) when transferring money.
then contact paypal, and say their account was hacked.

They get the money back, the cam model has their account closed and loses the money.
They also have their email/bank/card details blocked as well.