Title: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on October 29, 2012, 08:03:02 PM http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/29/paypal-cutting-jobs-as-part-major-reorganization/
Quote PayPal needs such talent more than ever because a slew of payments start-ups, including Square, Stripe and Dwolla, are developing rival services and products that are beginning to catch on with merchants and consumers. Nary a mention of Bitcoin in this article, but given time, future articles will contribute Bitcoin to PayPal's downfall. ~Bruno K~ Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Trader Steve on October 30, 2012, 02:34:37 AM http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/29/paypal-cutting-jobs-as-part-major-reorganization/ Quote PayPal needs such talent more than ever because a slew of payments start-ups, including Square, Stripe and Dwolla, are developing rival services and products that are beginning to catch on with merchants and consumers. Nary a mention of Bitcoin in this article, but given time, future articles will contribute Bitcoin to PayPal's downfall. ~Bruno K~ +1 Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 02:39:07 AM http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/29/paypal-cutting-jobs-as-part-major-reorganization/ Quote PayPal needs such talent more than ever because a slew of payments start-ups, including Square, Stripe and Dwolla, are developing rival services and products that are beginning to catch on with merchants and consumers. Nary a mention of Bitcoin in this article, but given time, future articles will contribute Bitcoin to PayPal's downfall. ~Bruno K~ They deserve to end. The company is a fraud. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on October 30, 2012, 02:53:30 AM http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/10/29/paypal-cutting-jobs-as-part-major-reorganization/ Quote PayPal needs such talent more than ever because a slew of payments start-ups, including Square, Stripe and Dwolla, are developing rival services and products that are beginning to catch on with merchants and consumers. Nary a mention of Bitcoin in this article, but given time, future articles will contribute Bitcoin to PayPal's downfall. ~Bruno K~ They deserve to end. The company is a fraud. I had a geat idea of somebody starting a PayPal user account here and then have theymos give him the scammer tag, but then I found this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=62490 Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: MysteryMiner on October 30, 2012, 03:08:17 AM eBay now supports PayPal as only payment method. I really miss the days back when PayPal was not even required for seller. The eBay/PayPal mob charges at least 2 times when selling items - first for listing and second for receiving payment with PayPal.
PayPal is so oldschool and greedy that it must go away. From usability standpoint there is nothing better than Bitcoin. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: foggyb on October 30, 2012, 04:29:54 AM eBay now supports PayPal as only payment method. I really miss the days back when PayPal was not even required for seller. The eBay/PayPal mob charges at least 2 times when selling items - first for listing and second for receiving payment with PayPal. PayPal is so oldschool and greedy that it must go away. From usability standpoint there is nothing better than Bitcoin. Ebay will go down with the ship? I can't believe they are this short-sighted. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: MysteryMiner on October 30, 2012, 05:40:51 AM Quote Ebay will go down with the ship? Both eBay and PayPal will continue and profit. They actually are not short sighted, eBay slowly ridding all other payment methods ensures that they have complete control and monopoly over transactions and can force any fees and terms they wish. They are too big to fail.I can't believe they are this short-sighted. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: MeSarah on October 30, 2012, 05:51:39 AM Is this the beginning of the end for PayPal? No. Paypal has billions of dollars to higher the talent they need. Apple is going threw a restructuring of their executives, does this imply the beginning of the end for Apple. Not likely.
To suggest that Paypal's restructuring is going to lead to the demise of Paypal is a logical fallacy. Just because A causes B and B causes C doesn't mean that A causes C. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 08:02:03 AM Is this the beginning of the end for PayPal? No. Paypal has billions of dollars to higher the talent they need. Apple is going threw a restructuring of their executives, does this imply the beginning of the end for Apple. Not likely. To suggest that Paypal's restructuring is going to lead to the demise of Paypal is a logical fallacy. Just because A causes B and B causes C doesn't mean that A causes C. Papypal will soon end because they don't know how to treat their customers. Better solutions like DWOLLA are arising. It's only a matter of us choosing to do what's right. To me, in a sense, it's like the civil rights movement. No longer will we sit in the back of Paypal's bus, a new day has come. Let us all rise up and boycott their asses until they dive into bankruptcy. Amen. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on October 30, 2012, 08:10:19 AM Is this the beginning of the end for PayPal? No. Paypal has billions of dollars to higher the talent they need. Apple is going threw a restructuring of their executives, does this imply the beginning of the end for Apple. Not likely. To suggest that Paypal's restructuring is going to lead to the demise of Paypal is a logical fallacy. Just because A causes B and B causes C doesn't mean that A causes C. Papypal will soon end because they don't know how to treat their customers. Better solutions like DWOLLA are arising. It's only a matter of us choosing to do what's right. To me, in a sense, it's like the civil rights movement. No longer will we sit in the back of Paypal's bus, a new day has come. Let us all rise up and boycott their asses until they dive into bankruptcy. Amen. Birmingham, here we come! Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: BrannigansLaw on October 30, 2012, 08:19:05 AM I think (sorry bitmit) we should all start selling on eBay and in the title say "accept bitcoin payments"... 10% discount or something along those lines. Just to spread the word and give PayPal the finger. I'm actually getting a chargeback at the moment >:(
Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: bitcats on October 30, 2012, 08:41:33 AM I think (sorry bitmit) we should all start selling on eBay and in the title say "accept bitcoin payments"... 10% discount or something along those lines. Just to spread the word and give PayPal the finger. I'm actually getting a chargeback at the moment >:( Good idea. I found this: 3 BTC for 180$ ??? http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Bitcoins-3-0-BTC-Three-Electronic-Bit-Coins-Digital-Currency-Cryptocurrency-/200840490146?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item2ec306aca2 Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 08:56:05 AM Let it die, let it die. Let it shrivel up and die!
http://i50.tinypic.com/xknb5j.gif Good idea with the ebay thing if we stop accepting/using paypal. All companies will stop. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: BrannigansLaw on October 30, 2012, 09:00:29 AM Yeah they will get a chargeback. No amount of proof will prevent the chargeback either.
Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 09:02:40 AM Yeah they will get a chargeback. No amount of proof will prevent the chargeback either. Paypal simply does not care. They punish the Seller for their inability to correctly process payments. Then when you complain they limit your account. I still remember speaking to the pompous paypal rep. Infuriating. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: franky1 on October 30, 2012, 09:03:42 AM you guys do realise something though.. paypal doesn't make its money.. eBay does.
think about it. chargebacks from banks cost paypal money. verifying accounts by sending those 2 random amounts of pennys costs paypal money. sending cash to your bank costs paypal money. its eBay that makes the money. so as long as eBay is used by the majority of online traders giving them all the listing fee's final value fee's etc. Then paypal wont disappear as it has and will continue to be funded by the profits of its eBay division. so if you want to kill paypal you have to kill eBay. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 09:06:38 AM you guys do realise something though.. paypal doesn't make its money.. eBay does. think about it. chargebacks from banks cost paypal money. verifying accounts by sending those 2 random amounts of pennys costs paypal money. sending cash to your bank costs paypal money. its eBay that makes the money. so as long as eBay is used by the majority of online traders giving them all the listing fee's final value fee's etc. Then paypal wont disappear as it has and will continue to be funded by the profits of its eBay division. 2 random cents that they take back. They more than make up for that crap by limiting thousands of accounts with money still inside it. I know my account had more than a small fortune in it. A fortune I had to wait 180 days to recover. I wonder how much they made while holding it? Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: SaintDevil on October 30, 2012, 09:11:37 AM you guys do realise something though.. paypal doesn't make its money.. eBay does. think about it. chargebacks from banks cost paypal money. verifying accounts by sending those 2 random amounts of pennys costs paypal money. sending cash to your bank costs paypal money. its eBay that makes the money. so as long as eBay is used by the majority of online traders giving them all the listing fee's final value fee's etc. Then paypal wont disappear as it has and will continue to be funded by the profits of its eBay division. so if you want to kill paypal you have to kill eBay. Doesn't eBay owns PayPal though? So all the money goes to the same company anyway. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: franky1 on October 30, 2012, 09:19:46 AM yep.. paypal is a division of eBay incorporated.
my point was that the paypal division (purely the payment gateway) wont get killed off. because of the profits of its Ebay division. you cant kill the kid because daddy is protecting it. basically. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Liberty Payout on October 30, 2012, 09:23:05 AM yep.. paypal is a division of eBay incorporated. my point was that the paypal division (purely the payment gateway) wont get killed off. because of the profits of its Ebay division. you cant kill the kid because daddy is protecting it. basically. We can weaken daddy by killing the kid. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: franky1 on October 30, 2012, 10:50:27 AM yep.. paypal is a division of eBay incorporated. my point was that the paypal division (purely the payment gateway) wont get killed off. because of the profits of its Ebay division. you cant kill the kid because daddy is protecting it. basically. We can weaken daddy by killing the kid. nah daddy will just procreate another spawn if satan. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: DoomDumas on October 30, 2012, 01:12:55 PM I think (sorry bitmit) we should all start selling on eBay and in the title say "accept bitcoin payments"... 10% discount or something along those lines. Just to spread the word and give PayPal the finger. I'm actually getting a chargeback at the moment >:( Good idea. I found this: 3 BTC for 180$ ??? http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Bitcoins-3-0-BTC-Three-Electronic-Bit-Coins-Digital-Currency-Cryptocurrency-/200840490146?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item2ec306aca2 hurry up ! 13h left to bid ;) Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: bitcats on October 30, 2012, 02:53:47 PM I found this: 3 BTC for 180$ ??? http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Bitcoins-3-0-BTC-Three-Electronic-Bit-Coins-Digital-Currency-Cryptocurrency-/200840490146?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item2ec306aca2 Quote hurry up ! 13h left to bid ;) I think i'm too slow :-[Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: mobile4ever on October 30, 2012, 03:03:32 PM Yeah they will get a chargeback. No amount of proof will prevent the chargeback either. Paypal simply does not care. They punish the Seller for their inability to correctly process payments. Then when you complain they limit your account. I still remember speaking to the pompous paypal rep. Infuriating. Imagine a software that does not give you a bad day or talks to you like a dog. It even charges you way less to use. → BTC Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: mobile4ever on October 30, 2012, 03:07:08 PM you guys do realise something though.. paypal doesn't make its money.. eBay does. think about it. chargebacks from banks cost paypal money. verifying accounts by sending those 2 random amounts of pennys costs paypal money. sending cash to your bank costs paypal money. its eBay that makes the money. so as long as eBay is used by the majority of online traders giving them all the listing fee's final value fee's etc. Then paypal wont disappear as it has and will continue to be funded by the profits of its eBay division. so if you want to kill paypal you have to kill eBay. Doesn't eBay owns PayPal though? So all the money goes to the same company anyway. Yes ebay bought paypal (http://theurbantwist.com/2011/11/17/ebay-bought-paypal-at-1-5-billion-and-now-paypal-is-worth-15-billion/). Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: TheButterZone on October 30, 2012, 08:42:12 PM I think (sorry bitmit) we should all start selling on eBay and in the title say "accept bitcoin payments"... 10% discount or something along those lines. Just to spread the word and give PayPal the finger. I'm actually getting a chargeback at the moment >:( Test auctions=how to sell stuff on eBay with BTC http://www.ebay.com/itm/230872494611 Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: firefop on October 30, 2012, 08:53:00 PM Is this the beginning of the end for PayPal? No. Paypal has billions of dollars to higher the talent they need. Apple is going threw a restructuring of their executives, does this imply the beginning of the end for Apple. Not likely. To suggest that Paypal's restructuring is going to lead to the demise of Paypal is a logical fallacy. Just because A causes B and B causes C doesn't mean that A causes C. Actually - you're incorrect on both companies. Paypal's layoffs are a sure sign that the company is struggling. Now given that they're enmeshed with ebay they probably won't go away entirely, but I'd be downright shocked if we don't see them being reduced to 'one of many' on the billing side of ebay within the next year or two. Apple's on the way out. Job's is gone - and Apple's already too greedy to survive much longer. They'll ride idevices for another few years before the tech ages enough that they can't just reskin it and call it an upgrade, and then itunes will carry them for 5 or 10 more years, since people who've invested in purchases there won't walk away from it quickly. But with Google jumping into the tablet market (and frankly destroying apple on cost, usability and tech) and microsoft redesigning windows to power handheld devices it won't be long before apple is exactly what it's always been before - 'advanced hardware at time of release, but no innovation and no ability to adapt to the marketplace' - aka it will settle to 15% of the market again. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: kjlimo on October 30, 2012, 10:59:32 PM is anyone here opting out of the recent paypal user agreement changes?
Are there any downsides to doing this? Does this make you not able to do the arbitration process if you opt out? Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: mdosi on October 30, 2012, 11:13:33 PM eBay now supports PayPal as only payment method. I really miss the days back when PayPal was not even required for seller. The eBay/PayPal mob charges at least 2 times when selling items - first for listing and second for receiving payment with PayPal. PayPal is so oldschool and greedy that it must go away. From usability standpoint there is nothing better than Bitcoin. So very True, >:( Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: awesomey on October 31, 2012, 04:11:01 AM PayPal should have died along time ago with all the sh*t they put their customers through. >:(
Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Beans on October 31, 2012, 04:33:24 AM Every time I post a cash only item on craigslist, I get at least 3 emails from paypal scammers trying to do buy it. I've had it with them.
Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: franky1 on October 31, 2012, 04:47:07 AM Every time I post a cash only item on craigslist, I get at least 3 emails from paypal scammers trying to do buy it. I've had it with them. maybe because cash only means they have to live nearby to hand you the cash. id suggest. "local meet only bring cash in hand"Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Richy_T on October 31, 2012, 05:03:50 AM Every time I post a cash only item on craigslist, I get at least 3 emails from paypal scammers trying to do buy it. I've had it with them. maybe because cash only means they have to live nearby to hand you the cash. id suggest. "local meet only bring cash in hand"They'll still send you the scam emails. Heck, likely they don't know enough English to even read the post you made more than what's needed to send the boilerplate scam response anyway. Personally, I've never had any problems with Paypal, nor ebay and the couple of issues I've had with sellers have been resolved quickly and to my satisfaction. I am aware of the horror stories though and am definitely not happy with the way Paypal has taken things (once upon a time, you didn't have to have an account to buy things) Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: sharky112065 on November 01, 2012, 10:47:33 PM Queue outrage at Dwolla in 5...4...3...2... ... /sarcasm
There will always be a service someone does not like because they either were wronged or perceived that they were wronged in some way. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: Rassah on November 02, 2012, 04:42:37 PM Queue outrage at Dwolla in 5...4...3...2... ... /sarcasm There will always be a service someone does not like because they either were wronged or perceived that they were wronged in some way. But PayPal managed to achieve a very special kind of wrong. I'm still pissed at them for the violin incident. Title: Re: Is this the beginning of the end to PayPal? Post by: sharky112065 on November 02, 2012, 05:55:36 PM Queue outrage at Dwolla in 5...4...3...2... ... /sarcasm There will always be a service someone does not like because they either were wronged or perceived that they were wronged in some way. But PayPal managed to achieve a very special kind of wrong. I'm still pissed at them for the violin incident. I agree that they handled the violin incident incorrectly. This is the problem with large companies, they institute policy and blindly follow it regardless of the situation. Had Paypal been a small company someone would have probably taken the time to investigate further and not requested destruction of the item. Thinking back to all the times I have been pissed off at a company/business, it was always a big corporation. |