PAYPAL

[Jazzmoose]

AFAIK is shorthand; PITA is euphemism. Which is why I didn't get it.

Huh?

I know "vig," but never've heard of PITA(except the bread). 'Splain, por favor.

PITA is, as Lon explained on p1, "pain in the arse" (or "ass", west of Ireland). Someone saying "pain in the arse" is trying to be rude to or about someone/thing. Reducing it to a set of initials takes away the rudeness. So it's a euphemism. I don't usually do euphemism. I'm much more likely to call it a fucking shovel. Which is why it didn't immediately occur to me that PITA meant "pain in the arse". See?

MG

Not really. I don't see how using initials, common as it is on the net, is one thing then another. I mean, WTF?

[porcy62]

As buyer I have a PayPal account, (credit card) and no problems until now with them. As seller I used Paypal with one bank account and I never had a problem. Anyway since I am not selling anything anymore, I closed the account one year ago when I was reordening my financial assetts.

Edited September 21, 2007 by porcy62

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

In the online world, anything may be shorthand, regardless of whether or not it has a euphemistic effect on the communication.

Ah, a valuable lesson in internetiquette - ta, Dan.

MG

[MoGrubb]

AFAIK is shorthand; PITA is euphemism. Which is why I didn't get it.

Huh?

I know "vig," but never've heard of PITA(except the bread). 'Splain, por favor.

PITA is, as Lon explained on p1, "pain in the arse" (or "ass", west of Ireland). Someone saying "pain in the arse" is trying to be rude to or about someone/thing. Reducing it to a set of initials takes away the rudeness. So it's a euphemism. I don't usually do euphemism. I'm much more likely to call it a fucking shovel. Which is why it didn't immediately occur to me that PITA meant "pain in the arse". See?

MG

Ooooooh.

I just thought, PITA being a bread, and bread being slang for money, hence the vig is the bread/money. PainInTheAss is most likely though.

[Jazzmoose]

Remember, guys; 'lol' was a mystery at one time.

Now it's just annoying...

[Tim McG]

after my recent problem on ebay - I was wondering if it makes more sense to purchase using paypal.

Their website says it is free, but others have told me it is not.

Any comments on pros and cons appreciated.

PayPal has been copy-catted by phishers wherein they send false e-mails asking for payment in order to get your personal and financial information.

I don't trust them to keep this from happening....use your credit card or pay by money order whenever possible.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

after my recent problem on ebay - I was wondering if it makes more sense to purchase using paypal.

Their website says it is free, but others have told me it is not.

Any comments on pros and cons appreciated.

PayPal has been copy-catted by phishers wherein they send false e-mails asking for payment in order to get your personal and financial information.

I don't trust them to keep this from happening....use your credit card or pay by money order whenever possible.

That's only a problem if you take notice of what they send you. (My bank say the same thing.)

MG

[Matthew]

Paypal is great, but the one thing that really bugs me is that they only give you a $2,000 spending limit unless you give them your bank account info (including the codes for them to electronically dip into your account).

To date, I have refused to give them my bank account info, and as a result - some 6 years after I first started with them -- I have spent all but the last $35 of my $2,000 spending limit. (Actually, this happened once before - probably 3 or 4 years ago. And after I got down around $75, one day my limit magically went back up to $2,000 again. I keep waiting for that to happen again, but it hasn't in over 6 months of waiting.)

I suppose I could start a new account, but that would require using a new e-mail address, and I'm really not wanting to tie my Paypal account to my work e-mail address (nor do I want to start some hotmail account just for this either). Anybody know of any other workarounds?? Other than giving them my bank account info, of course, or is that my only option??

Am I being silly for not wanting to give that to them?? You can dispute credit card purchases, but I'm assuming it's much more difficult to dispute unauthorized bank account withdrawals if you've given somebody (some 'entity') permission to access your account.

On the plus side, though, effectively not having Paypal has really helped reduce my eBay spending.

I just checked my Paypal account since I've used it a couple of times this month, and I noticed that my spending limit has been increased to $10,000, which is strange since in four years of use, I've only spent $700... I must have a honest face.