fuck you, paypal

[piranha]

i imagine you all have read the latest dreamwidth announcement.

it's not as if i've liked paypal before, but now i am through with them. the question is, i've mostly used them out of convenience, because they are pretty much everywhere, and i've felt better about leaving my credit card information with one company than to hand it out to every site where i spend an occasional buck.

i am completely clueless as to who else there even is but paypal. help? (yeah, i'll be using the google, but i like to hear of personal experiences.)

Comments

[green_knight]

I've also used <searches memory> Click & Buy, and I remember being *extremely* wary before handing over my details to them (and don't have the genuine address at hand, either). The problem isn't that *you* want to choose, it's that almost anyone else who uses that kind of electronic transfer uses PayPal, so they're kind of hard to avoid.

I wrote to them with a complaint about the affair and was told 'the company needs to contact us directly' which is fair enough - I just hope that enough of DWs customers complain to make enough helpdeskers take it upstairs to their manager for _someone_ to take note that this is a problem - not because of the individual case, but because PayPal is being used to get at one of their customers and becomes, in effect, a tool of blackmail. And *that* is very much not in the interest of PayPal. (If this happens to a company with a furious and not-very-lawabiding customer base, one can see revenge attacks happening to completely uninvolved third parties - at which point, the shit would really hit the fan.)