From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 31 12:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8B7F37B41C for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBVKr1V81980; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:53:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <021401c1923d$259533c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Jeff Lasman" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011231011757.01d72730@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011226145226.021974b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011227092550.01c87ae0@localhost> <3C2FCA60.99829AA7@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011231011757.01d72730@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011231014644.00e7af00@localhost> <3C30B364.61C394A0@nobaloney.net> Subject: Re: Confirm Your PayPal Membership Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:53:01 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Jeff writes: > I have no idea what Anthony's problem is with > PayPal, and I'm not belittling it in any way, > but I'm sure there's at least a perceived > reason on PayPal's part as to why they're > holding the money on his account. They refuse to validate the account, even though I followed their instructions and sent them all the information they requested by fax. As far as I can tell, the reason they haven't validated the account is that they are too stupid to understand how anything outside Omaha actually works, and they are unwilling to learn. > That said, I just had an "international" customer > (in Australia) not be able to use it to send me > money until he got the "numbers" off his credit > card statement ; ... Yes. That is my situation also. The problem is that the "numbers" PayPal uses are non-standard information that is not necessarily carried in transactions passed to foreign banks (store numbers, specifically--they are stripped when transactions reach my account). Explaining this to them seems to have no effect. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message