Joho the Blog
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July 03, 2004
RageBoy is getting messages from PayPal saying that what he's sellling violates their standards of decency. If PayPal doesn't want to be used for the sale of pornographic items, I guess that's their choice, but in this case, RB isn't trying to sell a thing. He has a "donate" button on his site. Apparently that requires him to clean up the content of his site to meet PayPal's sense of decency. Feels a tad intrusive, doesn't it? BTW, if you've got some spare cash, you might want to consider pressing that big ol' donate button while it still works. Posted
by D. Weinberger at July 3, 2004 11:33 AM
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Let Rageboy go out and earn a living like the rest of us....
Posted by: David | July 3, 2004 08:19 PM
let "x@y.com" and all the like minded holier and harder working than thou dumps try to earn a living off the top of their heads from the depths of their minds.
actually rb is trying to sell his labors. donate is just another word for "what's my work worth to you". that's always been a hard sell, i earned a living that way at one time...for about 4 hours.
so, maybe his work violates their standards of decency. sad it should be that way but you never know when the federal regulators are gonna come down heavy on immorality and indecency in the banking industry.
i think rb should take a tip from me and start selling underwear on the side(bar). amazon's nice, but more people wear underwear than read books.
(rb also has an address posted for alternative donations.)
Posted by: kim | July 4, 2004 01:27 AM
I donated exactly because of the "what's my work worth to you".
His is worth something to me. But what is interesting to me is that i got back an acknowledgement that I'd be willing to bet is an auto-responder boilerplate acknowledgment ... which I didn't expect.
I'd rather get no reply, no acknowledgement than something that didn't feel sincere (and I honestly can't put my finger on why it didn't feel that way).
Maybe I'm mistaken. I suppose the thing to do is ask ... and as I noted above, I'd be willing to bet ...
Posted by: Jon | July 4, 2004 02:39 PM
"intrusive"
how so? He is using PayPals *service*. If he doesn't accept PayPal's terms he is free to go elsewhere.
Posted by: MoralPhile | July 15, 2004 05:40 AM
pp swiped 100$ from me, customer agreed to 200$ refund & pp gave 300$ refund ... customer bought item sold to 100's of other happy users and after getting our unit went & bought competitor's unit. they even had the gaul to send ours back in competitors box less $15 worth of parts.. pp santions suck actions at sellers expense... beware you can rip anyone off w/pp... bware...
Posted by: badbob | July 19, 2005 05:39 PM
I am getting to be very irritated with PayPal. I canceled my account with them a couple years ago, but I continue to get 'notices' in my email that a purchase has been done for such and such an amount, and a name and address of someone somewhere, but nothing goes against my checking account (thank goodness!!)..
I have tried to contact them. Anybody have a telephone number I can actually scream at a real person to remove my email from their imbicilic system?
Thanks!
Posted by: Dusty | January 10, 2007 07:55 PM