Hey Danny!   
      
   Mar 14 13:00 06, Danny Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    DC> I didn't know that.  I thought PayPal had safeguards for performance.    
      
   Did you do any research on that?  While you're at it check out eBay too but I   
   suggest you look at it from the perspective of someone who would be interested   
   in having a buyer's account as opposed to selling anything there, although it   
   might be a good idea to check out that angle as well.   
      
   From my understanding PayPal has no builtin guarentees of security, other then   
   protecting themselves, and can get away with things that no normal financial   
   institution could get away with without ending up doing time in a prison.  So   
   even from a legitimate seller's perspective, and perhaps the situation is even   
   worse for them, PayPal offers nothing in the way of protection of the seller's   
   assests.  As the story goes, they can, and apparently have, frozen seller's   
   finanail assets for no legitimate reason and often charge double for a single   
   transaction.  Also they have been successfully sued, although an out of court   
   settlement where no public record exists as to the why's.   
      
   That is what I have 'learned' so far but who knows for sure.  All I know is I   
   want nothing to do with it.  I regret even having an eBay account and am   
   having problems ditching it despite not ever having anything to do with   
   PayPal.  I did find some hard to get stuff there but overall think most of   
   what I see there to be utter crap and not worth any risks being involved with   
   them at any level.  Also I get far too much spam which is directly related to   
   having done anything on eBay.   
      
   Interesting stuff for sure.  I found a whole mess of eyebrow raisers.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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