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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G3r9Iw.AAv@lugnet.com... (...) My take on this is that nobody utilized the checking/debit card feature of the X.com accounts. PayPal achieved critical mass before X.com in the e-mail (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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X.com is quitting... I got this in my mail today: (...) the letter goes on to give details of the unwind and encourages people to join PayPal. IIRC X acquired PayPal so this is a twist! ++Lar (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Inconsiderate INDIVIDUAL (was Brickbay spam??)
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(...) I agree 100%, I merely meant that he could blocksany possible use by 3rd parties for the service@brickbay.com adres. And if people want it, make a special "announce" like mail adres to which people can subscribe. (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) I'd just like to stress that this isn't really Brickbay spam - this is spam sent by someone with no manners who decided to abuse the Brickbay system to send it. While it may make it easier to "filter" all mail if Dan were to make mail from the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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This morning I found an email, with "service@brickbay.com" as sender. It turned out to be spam by Mark Ng. I am not interested in his postings, so on Usenet I can filter them out, same for personal email. But now that people are using the Brickbay (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Can we all agree to do eCheck payments with Paypal and not CC?
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(...) No, no, no! You're supposed to dispense information. Jeez. ;-) (...) It is the invokation of good-luck voodoo that keeps our economy stable. Duh. (...) I don't think that's logically the same since it doesn't instruct on a point of law. I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I give the entire $5 back when someone signs up as a new member of LUGNET and of PayPal at the same time, and I can match the referral-bonus email notification up with their payment, and credit them the $5 referral bonus towards their (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Um... I give. For that matter, what does "in God we Trust" mean? I don't. Does that mean I can't use the money if I don't? I think that whatever terms I arrange and which the other party accepts, are binding. If I am not specific about how I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) How so? All I am saying is that I am not home to process mail. I've said before that Josette doesn't like to do it, and doesn't do it very accurately. So getting mail is a huge hassle because I am not there to see it. Nothing else. However I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) If you'll still accept other forms of payment, then I'll still buy. Got any 2x2x5 girders around? :-) (...) The problem I have is that PayPal places an unreasonable hold/delay on funds wired in to them. Wired moeny is already in their hands - (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | SARCASM WARNING re: PayPal payments
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<GRIN> OK, Frank, how much am I going to charge you for paying me for those big gears </GRIN> (which finally arrived, so I do need your address to send them to you) Do you need the old-style studded wheels with metal axle for them? I'll scare some (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) What does the term "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" mean? It's printed on all of our currency. I remember reading once (5-10 years ago) that all US cash had to be accepted as a form of payment except pennies. I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ooo. I think some nation just got slammed. Or is that nations? Steve (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Well, that's certainly your choice. But I never said I am going to insist on eCheck or Paypal. What I am talking about is that if someone is going to pay me WITH Paypal I think we should all agree to do it the eCheck way (which is one of the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) Count me as one of these people. I like my account just the way it is right now. I tend not to keep funds at Paypal. I keep them at my x.com bank account. My Paypal account is linked to my X.com bank account and that is the account where I (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) So you object to PayPal not giving you a free service? Welcome to the real world where everything has a cost. There ain't no free lunches. I'm not sure if PayPal has wrangled an agreement with the credit card companies or if they are eating (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) The agreement with the credit card company is PayPal's, you never signed an agreement with Visa or any other credit card company. However, you did agree to PayPal's conditions. Looking through them, I don't see anything about surcharges, so it (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Can we all agree to do eCheck payments with Paypal and not CC?
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(...) I think what Mike meant is that if you're paying by Paypal, it has to be by eCheck or balance transfer, not CC. I just went to sign up for Paypal, and stopped. Not out of any objection to policies, or fee structures, no. It's because they (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | Re: Can we all agree to do eCheck payments with Paypal and not CC?
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(...) Do you mean legally? Or from a reputation perspective? I don't think that you are legally required (in a mutually voluntary transaction) to accept or not accept any particular form.(1) I certainly can, and will, refuse to accept payment in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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(...) I suppose I should have know this would happen. I'm less than $3 from the limit. (...) My plan is to 1) start accepting funds via YAHOO! PayDirect. It's (still) free. 2) (probably) Post on my web site that Payapl CC payments will incur the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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