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Ok. But there are millions of successful businesses using PayPal without any problems. I’ve never had any problems. In fact I couldn’t do what I do with any other payment provider.
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That makes no sense at all. It’s like saying you get a scam message from someone pretending to be your bank therefore your bank is unsafe.
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Presumably the person sending them isn't paypal.
I get those emails mostly on email addresses that are not registered with paypal. Its a common scam one.
Doesn't impact on ability to use paypal. Or indeed my bank.
Heck, was getting scam emails that were supposed to be from my bank years before I ever opened an account with them!
Scammers will try anything.
They send something supposed to be from the police - you never going to contact the police either?
They send something supposedly from your employer, you going to quit your job?
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The Byre
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For a company to ONLY accept PayPal is madness on a stick.
There are perfectly valid reasons for NOT using PayPal that have NOTHING to do with security and everything to do with bookkeeping. If someone has company expenditure and that company does not have a PayPal account, private payments have to be booked over to a company account and according to our books person that is a right royal PITA as some payments fall through the cracks and do not get booked.
Every bloody month I get a list of payments that I have to chase down and work out what the hell they were and then find out that we paid VAT but can't reclaim it as the vendor didn't issue a VAT receipt, etc., etc. It's a waste of time and we lose money.
So for the controllers of thought, word and deed of this forum, go all adult and go down to a bank and open an account. Then tell people what the number is so that they can pay you via a company account and not play silly games with PayPal and then have to dig through private emails to find out WTF it was weeks later.
There are perfectly valid reasons for NOT using PayPal that have NOTHING to do with security and everything to do with bookkeeping. If someone has company expenditure and that company does not have a PayPal account, private payments have to be booked over to a company account and according to our books person that is a right royal PITA as some payments fall through the cracks and do not get booked.
Every bloody month I get a list of payments that I have to chase down and work out what the hell they were and then find out that we paid VAT but can't reclaim it as the vendor didn't issue a VAT receipt, etc., etc. It's a waste of time and we lose money.
So for the controllers of thought, word and deed of this forum, go all adult and go down to a bank and open an account. Then tell people what the number is so that they can pay you via a company account and not play silly games with PayPal and then have to dig through private emails to find out WTF it was weeks later.
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fc-ramon
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On most paypal checkouts you can pay without a paypal account. Making it pretty much the same as another payment gateway. I bet you've used braintree before when paying for something on a website - They're owned by paypal too. I understand why people dont want a paypal account but the option "Pay by debit / credit card" is below the sign into your account on the paypal checkouts.
The backend systems of paypal, stripe, braintree all NEED to be compliant with regulations such as pci. Plus the horror stories are most of the time from sellers
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