[Noisebridge-discuss] Paypal: really a good idea?

[Mitch Altman]

Thanks for sharing your displeasure with PayPal.  Yeah -- PayPal sucks!  But it works really well for our purposes of receiving dues and donations for Noisebridge.  There are other ways of paying dues and giving donations.  So, feel free to use them as an alternative.

 

 

Mitch 

 

-- Speaking as Noisebridge Treasurer

 

 

p.s.  I have PayPal on the TVBGone.com website, as a way for people to pay for their TV-B-Gone orders.  I have had a few people rip me off through PayPal, but out of about 50,000 orders, a few rip-offs is just a (sad) part of doing business.  But an overwhelming majority of people are honest enough to want to pay for what they buy.

 

 

 

 

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> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:21:47 -0500
> From: kragen at canonical.org
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Paypal: really a good idea?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I noticed that Noisebridge is accepting dues via Paypal.
> 
> I don't have any skin in this game, except that I'd be sad if more of my
> friends got burned by dealing with Paypal. One friend sold his laptop
> to someone who paid for it via Paypal, picked it up in person, and then
> retracted the money claiming they never received the goods.
> Paypal naturally sided with the thief.
> 
> The bigger issue I learned about a while back was what Paypal did with
> the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund:
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Awful#Hurricane_Katrina_charity>
> 
> Additionally, if you've ever tried to contact Paypal about any customer
> service issue, I'm sure you have experienced the immense difficulty with
> contacting any humans there.
> 
> I'm not currently a member, although I did attend a meeting once, and so
> I don't really have a say in the issue myself. I just thought I would
> share my experience in case it turned out to be helpful. What do other
> people think?
> 
> Kragen
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