From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 28 18:44:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.nobaloney.net (joshua.nobaloney.net [63.108.93.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FC437B416; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobaloney.net (adsl-64-170-53-238.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.53.238]) (authenticated) by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fBT2jCf05443; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:45:12 -0800 Message-ID: <3C2D2EAC.E0547468@nobaloney.net> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:47:08 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman Organization: nobaloney.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: experiences (Re: FreeBSD Foundation Accepts Donations via PayPal) References: <20011226013738.49F2E37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <20011226114655.GA7717@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Klemm wrote: > Things I had to do: > - register > - get an international account since I'm not US citicen > - was forced to verify a paypal card number > - was forced to be charged with $1.94 for this paypal card verification > am not sure for what they wanted to charge me $1.94. > For the card ? The verification ? > Then they claim you get the money back to your account ... > Well, then why they try to charge me at all ???? They attempt a charge against your card to make sure it exists. That's the easiest way for them to do it; not necessarily the only way. When I signed up with them I don't remember the exact amount, but they only "held" it to get an approval number. They never completed the transaction, so eventually my bank credited it back. Some banks do that within 24 hours, others take days; it's not their fault. Not that this makes it right, but here in the U.S. if I buy gasoline at an Arco Station with any card (even a PayPal card), and if you use their outside pay stations, they hold $75 against your card before you pump a drop. (Mobil, at least in California, only holds $1.) > Most annoying is, that they 1st tell you, that you don't have to > to the paypal card verification, if the money you want to send is > below $100. This is the case for me, I entered $ 50 a page ago. Hmmm. I've always known you could send up to $100 without having a verified account, but I didn't know they didn't tell you. A lot of use PayPal because we can accept credit cards as well as use them. People pay me through PayPal, and that costs very little, and then I use my PayPal card to spend the money in my account OR move it to my bank account; whichever I prefer, and I don't need the expense of setting up a merchant account. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message