Stories about ‘PayPal’


By Brett Bumeter

I noticed an interesting little tidbit on an email from AirTran this morning.  About half way down the email they had a little blurb stating that AirTran now accepts PayPal.

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Now as a internet publisher and blogger, I receive a large portion of my income in...

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By Brett Bumeter

This week I experienced a first with PayPal.  I was double charged for a debit card transaction.  I charged X Amount of money on my Debit Card.

The firm that I paid received X Amount.

PayPal then reduced my account by X Amount once.

Then PayPal reduced my account by X Amount a second time.

This was not a transaction where they initiate the charge just to confirm my balance.  This...

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By Brett Bumeter

Checking to see if a person’s PayPal user name is verified, is relatively simple.  You just need their PayPal email address, or the email address you suspect is a PayPal email address.

  1. Then open up your web browser of choice
  2. Log into your PayPal Account
  3. Paste the following url – https://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=
  4. Then paste the email address
    1. so that...

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By Brett Bumeter

image In case you have ever attempted to make a credit card payment (ergo a payment to your credit card) directly from say your PayPal account where you receive 1% cash back, its not technically...

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By Brett Bumeter

So even though PayPal notified me that they would fix the transaction, that apparently was not correct.

So I was then told to log in and submit a dispute on the charge.  Unfortunately, a duplicate charge is not a category option within the PayPal system.  This resulted in the new operator asking for feedback and putting me on hold at least...

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By Brett Bumeter

If you transact with PayPal on a regular basis, you may feel that the account operates much the same as any other bank or credit card account.  In many ways this is very true.  However, it is still an online payment facility and in some ways their security is tighter than other systems.

If you receive a large payment over...

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