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| Perhaps it was inevitable but hopefully it won't have nasty implications for payments made outside of eBay. ugh, John #388 (URL) is to buy Paypal, for $1.5bn in stock. That's sorted then, or it will be when the deal closes at the end of the year. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Let's hope not. It remains to be seen what this will actually mean for users, but here's a link to an article that doesn't sound too hopeful... (URL) the meantime, I just signed up for another online payment service run by CitiBank, (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| Something this article didn't mention was that eBay is also going to phase out billpoint as part of this acquisition: (URL) Scott (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| (...) You don't know much about banking, I trust... Do you really think that every penny in your checking or savings account is actually held just for you? Heck no, they spend it. Sometimes they even have to borrow to cover it when you make a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| Oh boy. I work for one of the banks that did the IPO. I'm not supposed to voice my true feelings about this whole thing. The numbers though: eBay just paid 24 times sales for a money-losing company. In other news, Warren Buffett got his first piece (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| (...) this URL is not loading completely. The menu across the top comes up but nothing appears in the body, it just times out. Too fancy, probably. (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| (...) works for me. -- hop-frog (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| "Amy Hughes" <lugnews@public.atreides.org> wrote in message news:GyzFsF.12G@lugnet.com... (...) account, (...) notice (...) tried to (...) there (...) while (...) you (...) order, (...) didn't (...) I can back Amy up on this as I was the seller (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| There was a message on the RISKS list that PayPal locks down accounts when their software sees a fraud pattern, and unlocks them when they get around to it. One user was flagged because they received an amount and immediately sent the amount. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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