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Subject: 
PayPal _NOT_ available to UK users (yet)...
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Date: 
Thu, 11 May 2000 21:57:38 GMT
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This just in from PayPal after a number of e-mails back and forth:

> 1. You are correct. You could theoretically have an account
> without a credit card to pay and receive money for purchases.
> However, your email domain will be flagged in our system because
> it has .uk in it, identifying you as an international account and
> that will be flagged in our system to be shut down because we
> don't allow international accounts at this time.
> 
> 2. Non-delivered address confirmations will result in an account
> restriction. Since we won't be able to verify the international
> address, this will also result in the account be shut down.
> 
> 3. The international account issue should be corrected shortly so
> that we can provide services to overseas users. There is a big
> push for this and the UK will probably be one of the first items
> to get the international accessibility.

As it stands, my [briefly] working PayPal account has now been shut down by
mutual agreement 8-(

UK users can obviously get around point 1 with a .com e-mail address. For
point 2, you could use the address of a friend or family member, but I would
be concerned about how the US authorities would view such an action.

Point 3 however is pretty interesting though... With a bit of luck, we'll
have PayPal available to us soon anyway, which of course means that we'll be
able to accept US Dollar payments with (hopefully) zero or minimal
charges!!!

8-)

Just Imagine .oO



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