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Nov 1, 2006, 07:13 PM
 
OK, PayPal sucks, I agree with that, but a bomb attack? That goes too far. Did this really happen? There seems to be only one news source where this is coming from.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/15903292.htm
     
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Nov 1, 2006, 07:15 PM
 
Well, PayPal has pissed off so many people I'm guessing the list of suspects would be several miles long. And then there's eBay..
     
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Nov 1, 2006, 08:00 PM
 
Originally Posted by TETENAL View Post
OK, PayPal sucks, I agree with that, but a bomb attack? That goes too far. Did this really happen? There seems to be only one news source where this is coming from.

MercuryNews.com | 11/01/2006 | PayPal campus closes as federal agents probe cause of explosion
What are you talking about? Go to Google News and search for "ebay bomb", it currently lists 176 articles on it.

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Nov 1, 2006, 08:01 PM
 
kinda reminds me of oh... FIGHT CLUB!
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Nov 1, 2006, 08:53 PM
 
Finally. What took them so long ?

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Nov 1, 2006, 09:01 PM
 
There are things I like about PayPal. I wonder why there isn't more powerful competition, though.
     
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Nov 1, 2006, 09:08 PM
 
I like Paypal although the service fee is turd high. However, Google Checkout is worse than PayPal.
     
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Nov 1, 2006, 11:32 PM
 
whoa...i've not had any problems with paypal but i have heard the horror stories. maybe it was an inside job? an employee who got screwed over and knew when nobody would be there and how to send a "message".
     
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Nov 2, 2006, 05:47 AM
 
So.. what exactly is so bad about PayPal?

I've never used them.

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Nov 2, 2006, 06:04 AM
 
Well, I have used PayPal a few times and I don't know either what's so bad about them!?
     
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Nov 2, 2006, 06:10 AM
 
I've never had any particular problems with Paypal either, but I have heard horror stories of them freezing the funds in people's accounts when there is any kind of dispute, even if the people in question did nothing wrong. And then there is the issue of chargebacks (having Paypal unilaterally decide that the you must pay back the money you received from someone, perhaps because the person used a stolen credit card, or because they claim that something was wrong with your product). Since Paypal highly encourages you to link your account to your real bank account, this can mean that they end up taking money right out of your bank account.
     
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Nov 2, 2006, 06:45 AM
 
Originally Posted by voodoo View Post
So.. what exactly is so bad about PayPal?
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
     
   
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