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Member Since: Jan 18, 2003

anyone use paypal? the sign up process seems to be unmediated by, say, a friendly little cartoon animal that explains the reason for things clearly and simply. do i need to have money in my paypal account to buy something online or is it enough for me to link a debit card to the paypal account? i guess that's a dumb question.

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Lost for words with all to say.
Contributor
Since: Sep 12, 2003

Sep 13, 2004 08:59 pm

You can use your debit/credit card directly through it. It basically moves the money to your account and then to the person you are sending it too, does all this for you automatically. Paypal is great to pay people with but I be John Brown if it doesn't cost you an arm and two step childs to receive money from someone. But it's a most to receive and use on ebay now.

Member
Since: Jul 02, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 01:17 am

You can link your checking account or debit card to a paypal account, but I'd recommend if you have a credit card to use that. Reason being if your account is ever compromised and somebody wipes out your checking account the money is gone, with a credit card your only liable for the first $50, so the most your going to lose is $50.

Dan

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 02:36 am

thanks for the tip. i am now an HRC pro member. my uncle dude song 'ghosts and ****' is the only full song i've got now, but it's available in my profile.

the long road to membership is complete.

paypal makes me nervous for some reason. quite possibly because i dont fully understand it.

Hello!
Member
Since: Jan 12, 2004

Sep 14, 2004 06:24 am

PayPal is a fine system. Ive been using it for buying/selling online for quite a while now and have no problems with it.

Great...there are alternatives like NoChex etc but I like PayPal.

Wise move linking yer credit card Olddog...I think I'll dae that and remove my cash card.

Coco.

Lost for words with all to say.
Contributor
Since: Sep 12, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 06:25 am

Yeah, use credit card!

Since you have got it and used it already (woot! joined us here being a HRC Pro!), I have a paypal horror story.

See, in order to get money you have in your paypal account to you so you can like get cash and not just in your paypal account, you have to have your checking account on there to "deposit" the money from paypal account to checking. So, after saying all of that, I paid for an ebay auction I won. I could have sworn I used my credit card I also have on my paypal account and not my bank account, which you can also do. I didn't noticed that the money was taken out of my checking account till a week later when I had a check bounce. I'm sort of a perfectionist, I keep my check book balanced constantly, I don't make these mistakes. What the....is going on? Called paypal, the lady wasn't helpful and wouldn't understand what was wrong saying paypal would never do that, that I made the mistake. Well, this has been over a year ago. Couple months ago, got an email from paypal about a suit they are going through and the main topic was this. Taking money out of other accounts where the user requested another method. All this mess happened right after ebay bought paypal, talk about screw up.

So, just wanted to share that great story. Other then that, everything is useful with paypal. I still use it because there is no alternative now that ebay owns paypal.

Lost for words with all to say.
Contributor
Since: Sep 12, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 06:27 am

NoChex...never heard of that. Hmmm, i'll look into it Coco!

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Sep 14, 2004 06:35 am

Welcome to HRC Pro forty.

I have used PayPal for years and I have never had trouble getting money from clients. I like the system very much.

Also, what I did for the credit card registration issue and bank account registration issue was simple. My wife and I got a credit card and dumbed down the maximum credit limit to $500 (wow, try to ask for a LOWER credit limit at those places sometime...) and we set up a bogus bank account that is used for nothing but PayPal bridges.

Then, when a client pays, or the balance gets over such an amount of money I pull it out of PayPal and into the bridge account, 3 or 4 days later when it's cleared I go to the bank and move it from the bridge account into our real account.

This protects you coming and going. If your credit card gets ripped, it's only a $500 max and if you bank account gets ripped, it's only the bridge account and there is never any significant amount of money in that account for a couple days before it's moved into a differetn account.

Hello!
Member
Since: Jan 12, 2004

Sep 14, 2004 06:39 am

A cunning plan dB...I think, I will look at doing something like that.

Tis darn well thought oot.

Coco.

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 02:06 pm

aye, vulpine thinking, that is.

i am so happy to be a pro.

thank you and good afternoon.


Hello!
Member
Since: Jan 12, 2004

Sep 14, 2004 06:33 pm

It's gid being Pro...

Welcome Forty..

Coco.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 14, 2004 09:13 pm

Welcome forty, glad ya made it back here. Is the version of ghosts and **** differant from the original you had out at the main forums? Heck I'll just go listen anyway, I havent listened to that one for awhile now.

Anyway, glad ya made it back here. Join the party and have some ice cream and beer. :-)

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 14, 2004 10:00 pm

thanks noize. weird you said that as i am shoving a klondike bar down my hatch right now.

it's the same version. i just mentioned it because, well, cause it's there now. lol

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 15, 2004 08:03 pm

Sweet, Klondike bars are great. But then again that is Prbly why I weigh in at 230 pounds right now. That and the Oreo's and milk.

But hey, a guy's gotta eat.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 15, 2004 09:19 pm

OH ya, and I still get a chuckle out of ghosts and stuff. I find it pretty kool to listen to.

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 15, 2004 09:58 pm

thanks for listening again, noize.

krispy klondikes are the best. but i just found a recipe for cayenne pumpkin pie which i may try to make this holiday season. and also raspbery-cayenne chicken, which i am gonna make next week. i am on a cayenne kick.



Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 15, 2004 10:44 pm

forty, the rasberry-cayenne chicken is awsome. I did that for the boys this summer at one of the campouts and it was splendid. My boys both dig cayenne on everything so it was a natural for them and they turned the other boys on to it as well.

Cayenne is the spice of life in my book. Other then curry I dont think I have used anything else as much, except for Garlic, but that is a given.

I will have to try the pie though. If ya get a chance email me the pie recipe, I would love to try that.

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 16, 2004 01:40 am

wow! noize those are the three best spices in the world! i love curry. i am trying hard to learn how to make a legitimate red curry paste and a nice chicken korma. vindaloo and korma are about as good as it gets.

as for the pie, i dont remember which exact page i got it from but there are a lot of recipes for it out there. here's google search result.

www.google.com/search?hl=...G=Google+Search


Member
Since: Jan 08, 2003

Sep 16, 2004 12:34 pm

Everyone knows that paypals rules and features change from country to country, right? i.e., debit cards cannot be used in canada UNLESS they are issued by a credit card company (actually a credit card with a 'debit' feature), etc...

W.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 16, 2004 09:25 pm

Thanx forty, I guess I coulda goolged it as well. But indeed the redpaste is a tough one. I alwasy get the red so hot it will cause blisters, well maybe not that hot. But if it makes my 11 year old sweat and tear up then I know it is too hot for most humans, but it sure does taste great untill ya cant eat anymore.

I have got the brown with peanut and coconut dow pat, and the green is still iffy. I am waiting for a green cury salad recipe from the local thai resturaunt that was fabulous in the resuraunt but I am sure I will muck it up somehow.

But indeed Curry is the spice of life.

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 17, 2004 06:58 pm

noize, this is well-worth it. i just made it, it's cooking now. and i can't stop eating the raw sauce mixture. lol

check yr email

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Sep 26, 2004 10:09 pm

Thanx forty, got the email and we are gonna do that at the next camp out. I figured a way to tweak the temsp to do it in a dutch oven and tried it out and it worked pretty well. A little more tweaking of temps and it should turn out good. I'll be making it again at the campout this weekend. The boyz loved it, as did I.

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Sep 27, 2004 02:26 pm

nice! glad to hear it noize. i'm going to try it with peach jam next time, and use very thin scallopini filets.

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