So Frustrated!!!Warning: Rant. Calming words appreciated...

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Originally Posted by ravenspirit360

Paypal rreally does suck lol.. High fees and they mess up. I have a 75 dollar charge on mine right now that I am waiting to dispute..

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And that takes forever to get worked out. Its stupid. The last screw-up they made with me was I specified during a transaction (by selecting visa as m first payment method) that I wanted to use my visa, I even had a confrimation e-mail, transaction details, everything said I used visa, YET they took the money out of my SAVINGS account!! SO ofcourse that bounced and my bank charged me $60!! Paypal never gave me that money, even though I could so obviously prove they fudged up...rarw!!

I sympathize with you. I've had the same type of thing happen with paypal... they're... let's say... shady? About things.
You'll eventually get your money but the wait sucks! IE my nearly month wait to get 560.00 back so hang in there!

Thanx for the support!! It's keeping me from wanting to blow-up paypal head quarters...lol (Jokes...I am not a terrorist threat)

Yeah.. but shooting paypal employees with super soakers or raiding them with water balloons as they walked out of HQ would be fun would it not? L:DL

Sorry to hear about your issues with PayPal. I've never used it because I've heard so many times about problems with their system.

It's a problem though like Sean said, that affects all sorts of these electronic transactions. I decided to try the electronic payment deal through my electric company for the first time a couple of months back. They were advertising it as convienient and fast and yadda yadda. So I phone in, I give them all the right numbers and then they inform me that it costs me $3.95 to pay them! Okay so it's a bit irritating. The electric company doesn't actually do the transaction, they transfer you to another company so you get to pay their cost of doing business but I figure it's worth it that day for me.

What wasn't worth it was them taking an almost $200 electric bill out TWICE and to add further insult to injury, charging me not TWICE but THREE times for that $3.95 service charge! When I phoned in rather hot under the collar, I was informed that it would take about 10 days to refund my money. They messed up in 10 minutes on the phone but heck I can wait 10 days now can't I.

Some convenience...blech. I've never used that system again.

Just a good word of advice...
I went through bankruptcy a few years back. And went through credit counseling before that.
The credit expert told us to do this.. NOT w/ paypal mind you but in your daily use of your bank/debit/atm card.
IF your card as the Visa/MC logo..
Always ... always choose to pay using the credit aspect of your card NOT the debit.
Using the credit aspect, the store must pay to process your card.
Using the Debit aspect (IE you input your PIN), you are charged a fee for using your card.
The stores always prefer you to use your pin, just remember you can hit the "cancel" button while doing your transaction it will then ask you, "Credit" or "cancel".. hit credit.. sign your name and the store will be charged a transaction fee. NOT you.

Just an FYI from some one who has been there...
Carol

If it's advertised as "quick and convienent!" It's not!! lol. I like the super soaker Idea!! Or I could set the sprinkler system off.

haha, that's a good one too!

We had a really bad problem with paypal just recently. What happened wasn't their fault, but how they handled it, or rather didn't handle it, didn't impress me.
I sent out a paypal payment for $535.00 for some animals. I typed in the address wrong and the payment went to someone it wasn't intended for.
As soon as I became aware of the problem, I contacted paypal. They told me they couldn't do anything about it. If the party that got paid in error wanted to return the money, they could, if not, to bad for me. $535.00!!!!!!!!!
Thankfully the person refunded them money, but paypal did nothing and didn't seem to care at all.
Plus I just found out that paypal isn't run as I thought. I thought it was safe to pay anyone from a paypal account and you could dispute it with them if you didn't get your merchandise or it was not as advertised. That only works with Ebay though, if you use paypal for anything else and it goes wrong, to bad for you, they only police Ebay.

Paypal sent me a "satisfaction survey" HA guess how that went;).....