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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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| | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Enrique Durand
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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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| | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Scott Runkle
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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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| | | | | (canceled) —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —William R. Ward
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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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| | | | | | | | (canceled) —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | (...) works for me. -- hop-frog (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.market.services)
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| | | | | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Troy Cefaratti
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Erik Olson
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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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| | | | | Re: eBay buys PayPal —Erik Olson
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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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