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Article #8886Re: credit card fraud
From: SMS
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:21
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:21
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Mark Anderson wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:54:45 -0700, SMS wrote: > >> What's amazing is that there are non-sellers dumb enough to link their >> checking account to their PayPal account. > > After a certain amount of transactions paypal requires that you link to a > checking account instead of a credit card. I thought that it was that they require you to verify the account but that you could do that another way. In any case, I have enough credit cards that I would just open another Paypal account rather than link to a checking account. > other than ebay and most of the stuff listed on ebay is overpriced crap > bid up by morons who don't know what things cost in the real world. Very true. My step-brother sells on eBay. He had a physical store but items that sold for $2 in the store would never fetch less than $8 on eBay. He closed his physical store, no reason to pay rent, insurance, staff, cleaning, utilities, etc. when eBay is so much more profitable. > Who was it who said "No one ever went broke underestimating the > intelligence of the American people?" Ebay and paypal are perfect > successful examples of that phenomenon! A lot of people aren't aware of on-line places to buy stuff like bits and pieces of electronics, including cables, cell phone accessories, other than eBay. Check dealextreme.com and monoprice.com.
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