No more Paypal personal for me. Big Brother came and took it :(

[Bio-Rupp]

42 pages and counting. Lines were drawn, lines were on, lines were obviously snorted.

 

One thing that this board can agree on is that on issues like this ... we really can't agree on anything. That is fantastic. Why? Because really in this "world", no one is ever truly wrong or truly right.

 

The conspirator in me wants to feel that Paypal knows people are going to use personal for means other than "personal". That they want you to use it against their stated TOS... just so they can cut it off, then they have ensured that they will always receive there service charge.

 

I'm sure there is some reason they offer paypal personal that benefits their company... and its not goodwill either. There has to be something monetarily related to make them offer a "no charge" option to its customers. Again as stated in the thread earlier "nothing is free". Did anyone post in this monstrosity the reason why Paypal offers personal, other than a service. The real reason they do it? Regulations to save on taxes, filing regulations, etc? I would like to know if anyone has that info... because again, it can't just be for goodwill towards the customer.

 

I never once used paypal personal until I started here on the boards a little over a year ago. Not once. I never asked for it either. Always stated in payment terms "whatever form of paypal that your comfortable with and saves me & you money, is good paypal to me".

 

Am I morally corrupt? Is RMA really Jesus? Should I charge my dog a service charge if he becomes unrully? Can Mikenyc88 really get me some of that high quality Japanese catapillar porn?

 

These questions may never be answered (tho I hope one will via PM ).

 

Just realize, that Coke knows exactly how much sodium to put in their drinks to keep you thirsty... and reach for another Coke.

 

[ComicConnoisseur]

Like I said earlier, it is the idea, the niche, the vision that decides whether your business plan will win or lose. Not the money you have. The money always pours into a profitable idea.

 

The rest is just time, effort, sacrifice and hard work.

 

That is the reality of it.

 

Do you really think that everyone is born with good business sense? It's not something that can be taught. Anyone can force themselves to work harder or sacrifice more but not everyone can come up with a good business plan or handle the problems that occur within business very well.

 

They might be great within a job and be very talented in various fields but still not have the direction and instincts to succeed if they go it alone.

 

Also, if someone does enter into a profitable area as you say then they will always have to be good enough to compete with the others who will also be heading into this area. If there is a way to make money then there will be others doing the same. It's not always enough to put in time, effort, sacrifice and hard work, sometimes you actually have to be good at something as well or you still may not succeed.

 

I see too many immigrants come here with no education and just willing to bust their humps and build a life to really believe this. (Yes, i know, a lot of folks think they come here to collect a welfare check and while some do, many do not) Often they start their own business. This could be selling falafels and gyros out of a street vending cart or whatever. People who barely speak English. The in-laws of a friend came over from Hong Kong with no education, they still (after 40+ years here) speak about 35 words of English between them, started/owned their own restaurant (after scrimping and saving for years working in other restaurants) and also managed to own, at one point, several apartment buildings in Brooklyn (worth many millions now, but they sold most of them before the prices really jumped). The father-in-law even has some sort of social anxiety disorder to boot and gets freaked out in big crowds. Yet these folks managed to prosper, every kid went to college, etc. I really do think it's a matter of if there's a will there's a way, at least in the long-term. And yes, the kid's childhoods were tough. They basically all slept on a pull-out couch and all were expected to work in the restaurant as much as they could without hurting their grades. At night they would be frigging rolling dumplings at home for the restaurant the next day. A lot can be overcome through sacrifice and working to achieve long-term goals. The desire for instant gratification is what causes a lot of folks to fail.

 

Good post but I like to clarify

that there are plenty of self-made millionaires and billionaires who don`t know the English language, knowing the English language doesn`t equate your intelligent or unintelligent. Some bigger factors to one`s success are business smarts, street smarts, common sense and lady luck. I have a friend who has a masters in Shakespeare education and yet he works at the local Blockbuster, another friend who doesn`t speak English very well but owns a few apartment buildings. So see you can still be educated and be successful without speaking English or being an authority on it

 

[InvstmntComcSuply]

Like I said earlier, it is the idea, the niche, the vision that decides whether your business plan will win or lose. Not the money you have. The money always pours into a profitable idea.

 

The rest is just time, effort, sacrifice and hard work.

 

That is the reality of it.

 

Do you really think that everyone is born with good business sense? It's not something that can be taught. Anyone can force themselves to work harder or sacrifice more but not everyone can come up with a good business plan or handle the problems that occur within business very well.

 

They might be great within a job and be very talented in various fields but still not have the direction and instincts to succeed if they go it alone.

 

Also, if someone does enter into a profitable area as you say then they will always have to be good enough to compete with the others who will also be heading into this area. If there is a way to make money then there will be others doing the same. It's not always enough to put in time, effort, sacrifice and hard work, sometimes you actually have to be good at something as well or you still may not succeed.

 

I see too many immigrants come here with no education and just willing to bust their humps and build a life to really believe this. (Yes, i know, a lot of folks think they come here to collect a welfare check and while some do, many do not) Often they start their own business. This could be selling falafels and gyros out of a street vending cart or whatever. People who barely speak English. The in-laws of a friend came over from Hong Kong with no education, they still (after 40+ years here) speak about 35 words of English between them, started/owned their own restaurant (after scrimping and saving for years working in other restaurants) and also managed to own, at one point, several apartment buildings in Brooklyn (worth many millions now, but they sold most of them before the prices really jumped). The father-in-law even has some sort of social anxiety disorder to boot and gets freaked out in big crowds. Yet these folks managed to prosper, every kid went to college, etc. I really do think it's a matter of if there's a will there's a way, at least in the long-term. And yes, the kid's childhoods were tough. They basically all slept on a pull-out couch and all were expected to work in the restaurant as much as they could without hurting their grades. At night they would be frigging rolling dumplings at home for the restaurant the next day. A lot can be overcome through sacrifice and working to achieve long-term goals. The desire for instant gratification is what causes a lot of folks to fail.

 

Good post but I like to clarify

that there are plenty of self-made millionaires and billionaires who don`t know the English language, knowing the English language doesn`t equate your intelligent or unintelligent. Some bigger factors to one`s success are business smarts, street smarts, common sense and lady luck. I have a friend who has a masters in Shakespeare education and yet he works at the local Blockbuster, another friend who doesn`t speak English very well but owns a few apartment buildings. So see you can still be educated and be successful without speaking English or being an authority on it

 

I don't think blob was implying that at all. He was simply saying it was an additional handicap they faced and overcame in a predominantly English speaking country.

[ComicConnoisseur]

Like I said earlier, it is the idea, the niche, the vision that decides whether your business plan will win or lose. Not the money you have. The money always pours into a profitable idea.

 

The rest is just time, effort, sacrifice and hard work.

 

That is the reality of it.

 

Do you really think that everyone is born with good business sense? It's not something that can be taught. Anyone can force themselves to work harder or sacrifice more but not everyone can come up with a good business plan or handle the problems that occur within business very well.

 

They might be great within a job and be very talented in various fields but still not have the direction and instincts to succeed if they go it alone.

 

Also, if someone does enter into a profitable area as you say then they will always have to be good enough to compete with the others who will also be heading into this area. If there is a way to make money then there will be others doing the same. It's not always enough to put in time, effort, sacrifice and hard work, sometimes you actually have to be good at something as well or you still may not succeed.

 

I see too many immigrants come here with no education and just willing to bust their humps and build a life to really believe this. (Yes, i know, a lot of folks think they come here to collect a welfare check and while some do, many do not) Often they start their own business. This could be selling falafels and gyros out of a street vending cart or whatever. People who barely speak English. The in-laws of a friend came over from Hong Kong with no education, they still (after 40+ years here) speak about 35 words of English between them, started/owned their own restaurant (after scrimping and saving for years working in other restaurants) and also managed to own, at one point, several apartment buildings in Brooklyn (worth many millions now, but they sold most of them before the prices really jumped). The father-in-law even has some sort of social anxiety disorder to boot and gets freaked out in big crowds. Yet these folks managed to prosper, every kid went to college, etc. I really do think it's a matter of if there's a will there's a way, at least in the long-term. And yes, the kid's childhoods were tough. They basically all slept on a pull-out couch and all were expected to work in the restaurant as much as they could without hurting their grades. At night they would be frigging rolling dumplings at home for the restaurant the next day. A lot can be overcome through sacrifice and working to achieve long-term goals. The desire for instant gratification is what causes a lot of folks to fail.

 

Good post but I like to clarify

that there are plenty of self-made millionaires and billionaires who don`t know the English language, knowing the English language doesn`t equate your intelligent or unintelligent. Some bigger factors to one`s success are business smarts, street smarts, common sense and lady luck. I have a friend who has a masters in Shakespeare education and yet he works at the local Blockbuster, another friend who doesn`t speak English very well but owns a few apartment buildings. So see you can still be educated and be successful without speaking English or being an authority on it

 

I don't think blob was implying that at all. He was simply saying it was an additional handicap they faced and overcame in a predominantly English speaking country.

 

First of all Blob`s a good guy (thumbs u we have many pms over the year, with that being said

The point I was trying to make is I know a lot of my English speaking fellow Americans tend to think if you can`t read or write English as well as them, then you are inferior to them intellectually. That thinking may have been in vogue in the past but it is not now.The reality for most Americans who have learned how to critique Geoffrey Chaucer is that they will soon realize that it won`t put food on the table and they would have been better off to go to a trade school and learn a good paying trade like auto mechanic or plumber instead.

In fact if people want to learn a language then I suggest Spanish as most bilingual jobs pay more.

[4GEMWORKS]

I'm late on this of course but Must say I am somewhat puzzled that amybody would complain about a 3% electronic payment fee. The buyer pays nothing, the seller absorbs the cost.

 

Try setting up a brick and mortar shop and see how much the fixed cost of doing so will run. Set up a credit card machine and you will soon discover that you get billed a couple percent for that as well.

 

If you are so dang cheap that you can't pay 3% to accept money from total strangers on a secure , guaranteed basis, accept checks only. Then you can wait a week or two for the check to arrive and pray to God it clears.

 

Honestly, Im awestruck at how cheap people can be.

[the blob]

Like I said earlier, it is the idea, the niche, the vision that decides whether your business plan will win or lose. Not the money you have. The money always pours into a profitable idea.

 

The rest is just time, effort, sacrifice and hard work.

 

That is the reality of it.

 

Do you really think that everyone is born with good business sense? It's not something that can be taught. Anyone can force themselves to work harder or sacrifice more but not everyone can come up with a good business plan or handle the problems that occur within business very well.

 

They might be great within a job and be very talented in various fields but still not have the direction and instincts to succeed if they go it alone.

 

Also, if someone does enter into a profitable area as you say then they will always have to be good enough to compete with the others who will also be heading into this area. If there is a way to make money then there will be others doing the same. It's not always enough to put in time, effort, sacrifice and hard work, sometimes you actually have to be good at something as well or you still may not succeed.

 

I see too many immigrants come here with no education and just willing to bust their humps and build a life to really believe this. (Yes, i know, a lot of folks think they come here to collect a welfare check and while some do, many do not) Often they start their own business. This could be selling falafels and gyros out of a street vending cart or whatever. People who barely speak English. The in-laws of a friend came over from Hong Kong with no education, they still (after 40+ years here) speak about 35 words of English between them, started/owned their own restaurant (after scrimping and saving for years working in other restaurants) and also managed to own, at one point, several apartment buildings in Brooklyn (worth many millions now, but they sold most of them before the prices really jumped). The father-in-law even has some sort of social anxiety disorder to boot and gets freaked out in big crowds. Yet these folks managed to prosper, every kid went to college, etc. I really do think it's a matter of if there's a will there's a way, at least in the long-term. And yes, the kid's childhoods were tough. They basically all slept on a pull-out couch and all were expected to work in the restaurant as much as they could without hurting their grades. At night they would be frigging rolling dumplings at home for the restaurant the next day. A lot can be overcome through sacrifice and working to achieve long-term goals. The desire for instant gratification is what causes a lot of folks to fail.

 

Good post but I like to clarify

that there are plenty of self-made millionaires and billionaires who don`t know the English language, knowing the English language doesn`t equate your intelligent or unintelligent. Some bigger factors to one`s success are business smarts, street smarts, common sense and lady luck. I have a friend who has a masters in Shakespeare education and yet he works at the local Blockbuster, another friend who doesn`t speak English very well but owns a few apartment buildings. So see you can still be educated and be successful without speaking English or being an authority on it

 

my point about speaking english had nothing to do with intellect. there are no doubt chinese and russian scientists with 178 IQs who don't speak english. my point is that these folks have managed to succeed in a country that speaks english while barely able to command the language because they have busted their humps and what not (or if they haven't "succeeded" per se, they are surviving). so when i see native born folks whining about how it can't be done, they can't get out of their hole, etc. (and I'm not talking about this board...most of the "I can't go out on my own" group were Brits and they weren't saying "can't" they were saying "I'm not going to risk it"...which is fine) I find it unnerving. with that said, many of these immigrants who seem to have busted their humps and done well seem to demonstrate no above average intelligence (though their kids often do). My friend's in-laws, now that they're retired/landlords, seem to do bizarre stuff that just doesn't seem too bright, but whatever. Does it require intelligence to open up a store front Chinese delivery type place? No, most of these folks scrimped and saved working in one of these places until they could go out and start their own, borrowing at usurious interest rates if need be, and so on. would being smarter help? sure, maybe. maybe not.

 

i understand wanting the "safety" and "security" of a job working for someone else. it's what I am stuck in now. I "can't" go out on my own because i have no savings (whose fault is that?) and a mortgage/bills to pay and would, currently, be unable to withstand the 6-12 months of low/no income I'd need to get through before I started seeing some dough (if I ever do). Of course, it's not that "I can't", it's that I've overextended myself in various ways and put myself in a position where "I can't". I have nobody to blame but myself and that's true for most other folks who are "stuck." Getting myself into position where "I can" will require some belt tightening and discpline and inheriting some money.....

[etanick]

]

 

First of all Blob`s a good guy (thumbs u we have many pms over the year, with that being said

The point I was trying to make is I know a lot of my English speaking fellow Americans tend to think if you can`t read or write English as well as them, then you are inferior to them intellectually. That thinking may have been in vogue in the past but it is not now.The reality for most Americans who have learned how to critique Geoffrey Chaucer is that they will soon realize that it won`t put food on the table and they would have been better off to go to a trade school and learn a good paying trade like auto mechanic or plumber instead.

In fact if people want to learn a language then I suggest Spanish as most bilingual jobs pay more.

 

let me add that I am an immigrant that live the American Dream and love everything that this country allowed me to be where I am today. Heck I went a long way from sleeping on a cod in a 2 bedrooms with 5 others. I remember Christmas shopping at the Salvation Army stores for used boots and gloves.

 

My English and grammar are far from perfect as you can see from my posts and I have been told many times that my accent and not perfect English were not cut out in the corporate world (Wall Street)....you turn on CNBC and do you see much Asian professionals? not 15 years ago...things have improved but I can say I was one of the first Asian that made it big in the investment field way back in the mid 90's but there were plenty of ceilings so I left and did my own thing. I have 4 failed start up but the one did come to fruition after a lot of sacrifices and 80 hours work week but it was all worth it. Heck yeah, I slept on my parent's couch back in 2000 because I was broke with all the failures but from the bottom, I clawed my way out.

 

I ran into many that will congratulated me and many that will use the words "you are lucky?" say what? nobody gave me anything and I took the risks and I was willing to do the hard work. Luck may be a small part of anyone's success but at the end of the day, the drives and passions along with GOOD COMMON SENSES can go along way. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs with great ideas but they lack common business senses and sadly because they are entrepreneurs, they don't care to hear my advices or anyone else...for those, failure rates are higher than those that are willing to learn or have good business senses.

 

Long ago when I was close to graduate college, I was at a 50 years old party of my housemate's mom. It was big bash in Rochester NY where lots of weathy big wigs and CEO types of people where there. I was "lucky" to live with a housemate that had super successful parents. Plenty of white hairs old men chatted with me at the party and asked me what I want to do with my life after I graduated....the best advice I got from that party "son, don't waste your time inventing the next and greatest new widget, plenty of folks doing that already....find what you can improve on existing ideas or business and do it better, faster, and cheaper....and you will find your American dream"

 

My 4 failures were new ideas, the one that made me where I am today is something that existed already that I can provide better, faster, and less expensive....

 

uh....what does this have to do with anything in this thread? perhaps nothing...but thanks for reading my rambling...back to lurking mode

[Junkdrawer]

I'm late on this of course but Must say I am somewhat puzzled that amybody would complain about a 3% electronic payment fee. The buyer pays nothing, the seller absorbs the cost.

 

Try setting up a brick and mortar shop and see how much the fixed cost of doing so will run. Set up a credit card machine and you will soon discover that you get billed a couple percent for that as well.

 

If you are so dang cheap that you can't pay 3% to accept money from total strangers on a secure , guaranteed basis, accept checks only. Then you can wait a week or two for the check to arrive and pray to God it clears.

 

Honestly, Im awestruck at how cheap people can be.

It's not that it's just 3%, at times its actually another 3% more on top of ebays 9% and then there is shipping as you are selling a book at cost or even less.

In my state MA the sales tax is 6.25% when I go to McDonalds for a coffee it's only a $1, but they charge $1.07, to me that is far less to be considered that a 3% paypal fee, however that .75% adds up to amounts of money that goes where? Is this a form of stealing? Anyone? RMA?

[the blob]

That thinking may have been in vogue in the past but it is not now.The reality for most Americans who have learned how to critique Geoffrey Chaucer is that they will soon realize that it won`t put food on the table and they would have been better off to go to a trade school and learn a good paying trade like auto mechanic or plumber instead.

---------------------

 

Well said [as I use the $1250 invoice I just got from my plumber as a book mark for my copy of the Canterbury Tales]

 

But it's not like mastering the English language will HURT you as you pursue your goals. That sounds like my mother-in-law, who seems to think it is a BAD thing to go to college (unless you become a doctor) because most of the rich people SHE knows did not go to college.

 

My father's step father was a second generation Irish immigrant. He had about an 8th grade education. He rose to become the #2 guy in the second largest railroad company in the country in the 20's - 40's. Hard work, etc. etc. With that said, the rest of the executives were all well educated WASPs. His boss had a bunch of degrees and what not. He made up for his lack of formal education by learning a new word from the dictionary every day, compiling an extremely impressive vocabulary over the years. He continued that even when he was the #2 guy. He wasn't going to let himself be in a position where he didn't understand what people were saying around him.

[4GEMWORKS]

I'm late on this of course but Must say I am somewhat puzzled that amybody would complain about a 3% electronic payment fee. The buyer pays nothing, the seller absorbs the cost.

 

Try setting up a brick and mortar shop and see how much the fixed cost of doing so will run. Set up a credit card machine and you will soon discover that you get billed a couple percent for that as well.

 

If you are so dang cheap that you can't pay 3% to accept money from total strangers on a secure , guaranteed basis, accept checks only. Then you can wait a week or two for the check to arrive and pray to God it clears.

 

Honestly, Im awestruck at how cheap people can be.

It's not that it's just 3%, at times its actually another 3% more on top of ebays 9% and then there is shipping as you are selling a book at cost or even less.

In my state MA the sales tax is 6.25% when I go to McDonalds for a coffee it's only a $1, but they charge $1.07, to me that is far less to be considered that a 3% paypal fee, however that .75% adds up to amounts of money that goes where? Is this a form of stealing? Anyone? RMA?

 

It's the 9% ebay fee that seems like a bit of a rip off these days. The solution...don't use eBay? If you are selling on these boards, the 3% is pretty minimal, however.

 

In any case the 3% paypal fee is the least of all the costs you listed.

[VintageComics]

It's not 9% on all sales. Only on certain types of sales and on certain prices.

 

eBay can actually be a relatively cheap place to sell books as well.

[Ze-man]

 

let me add that I am an immigrant that live the American Dream and love everything that this country allowed me to be where I am today. Heck I went a long way from sleeping on a cod in a 2 bedrooms with 5 others. I remember Christmas shopping at the Salvation Army stores for used boots and gloves.

 

My English and grammar are far from perfect as you can see from my posts and I have been told many times that my accent and not perfect English were not cut out in the corporate world (Wall Street)....you turn on CNBC and do you see much Asian professionals? not 15 years ago...things have improved but I can say I was one of the first Asian that made it big in the investment field way back in the mid 90's but there were plenty of ceilings so I left and did my own thing. I have 4 failed start up but the one did come to fruition after a lot of sacrifices and 80 hours work week but it was all worth it. Heck yeah, I slept on my parent's couch back in 2000 because I was broke with all the failures but from the bottom, I clawed my way out.

 

I ran into many that will congratulated me and many that will use the words "you are lucky?" say what? nobody gave me anything and I took the risks and I was willing to do the hard work. Luck may be a small part of anyone's success but at the end of the day, the drives and passions along with GOOD COMMON SENSES can go along way. I meet a lot of entrepreneurs with great ideas but they lack common business senses and sadly because they are entrepreneurs, they don't care to hear my advices or anyone else...for those, failure rates are higher than those that are willing to learn or have good business senses.

 

Long ago when I was close to graduate college, I was at a 50 years old party of my housemate's mom. It was big bash in Rochester NY where lots of weathy big wigs and CEO types of people where there. I was "lucky" to live with a housemate that had super successful parents. Plenty of white hairs old men chatted with me at the party and asked me what I want to do with my life after I graduated....the best advice I got from that party "son, don't waste your time inventing the next and greatest new widget, plenty of folks doing that already....find what you can improve on existing ideas or business and do it better, faster, and cheaper....and you will find your American dream"

 

My 4 failures were new ideas, the one that made me where I am today is something that existed already that I can provide better, faster, and less expensive....

 

uh....what does this have to do with anything in this thread? perhaps nothing...but thanks for reading my rambling...back to lurking mode

 

You forgot to mention that you owe everything you have to reading comics as a kid, learning English from the comics you borrowed from your apartments basement laundry room years ago.

 

THAT is the real lesson to be learned here.

 

Comic Books made you a success in America!

 

 

 

 

As for the rest of this thread? You guys need a hobby or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hockey&comicsguy]

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let me add that I am an immigrant that live the American Dream and love everything that this co]untry allowed me to be where I am today. Heck I went a long way from sleeping on a cod in a 2 bedrooms with 5 others. I remember Christmas shopping at the Salvation Army stores for used boots and gloves.

 

 

 

I'm in to a little kink as much as the next fellow but this is a whole new level of dirty.

 

[500Club]

Christ, you replied directly to my post. I'll ignore you if you just leave me to it but I'm damned if I'm gonna sit there and let you reply to me (and you know that you were inferring that I'm a victim based my posts, whether you admit it or not) and just take it.

 

Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.

Don't address him as Christ.

[fantastic_four]

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let me add that I am an immigrant that live the American Dream and love everything that this co]untry allowed me to be where I am today. Heck I went a long way from sleeping on a cod in a 2 bedrooms with 5 others. I remember Christmas shopping at the Salvation Army stores for used boots and gloves.

 

 

 

I'm in to a little kink as much as the next fellow but this is a whole new level of dirty.

 

 

I too am compelled by this part of his tale. I, however, am a one-cod man, I couldn't share mine with others.

 

[500Club]

My English and grammar are far from perfect as you can see from my posts and I have been told many times that my accent and not perfect English were not cut out in the corporate world (Wall Street)....you turn on CNBC and do you see much Asian professionals? not 15 years ago...things have improved but I can say I was one of the first Asian that made it big in the investment field way back in the mid 90's but there were plenty of ceilings so I left and did my own thing. I have 4 failed start up but the one did come to fruition after a lot of sacrifices and 80 hours work week but it was all worth it. Heck yeah, I slept on my parent's couch back in 2000 because I was broke with all the failures but from the bottom, I clawed my way out.

 

I ran into many that will congratulated me and many that will use the words "you are lucky?" say what? nobody gave me anything and I took the risks and I was willing to do the hard work.

 

 

Good on you!

[500Club]

Oh, and for the record, i'm in agreement with you position on this whole thievery of paypal. (thumbs u

 

But I don't give a shet about paypal so......

 

40 some pages, summarized beautifully here.

 

Using the personal option is, by the letter of the law, theft. I'm in full agreement with RMA on this.

 

It's the overall resentment/dislike of PP/eBay that drives us to try to rationalize it as not so.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Lots of bollocks in this thread....

 

 

I will never post to or about RMA on these boards ever again.

 

I guess "never" = about a month.

 

Christ, you replied directly to my post. I'll ignore you if you just leave me to it but I'm damned if I'm gonna sit there and let you reply to me (and you know that you were inferring that I'm a victim based my posts, whether you admit it or not) and just take it.

 

Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.

 

Let me educate you a little bit: the way this board works, the reply to field ( "Re: ") automatically defaults to whomever was the LAST post on the particular page that a poster is looking at at that particular moment, UNLESS you hit "quick reply" to a specific post. But if you just reply at the bottom of the page, it will DEFAULT to whomever's is the last post on that page. There is no "reply to none" option.

 

You probably have never noticed, but if I am directly responding to someone, I will quote them. I do this specifically because of this default Re: issue.

 

Though you certainly are one of the victims in this thread, you aren't the only, and not even the first. Maybe, if you weren't so easily offended, these issues wouldn't come up.

 

You said one thing in March. You clearly couldn't control yourself enough to live up to your word. There are people I don't reply to no matter what they say to or about me.

 

Hopefully, you can keep your word from now on. I much prefer it.

[RockMyAmadeus]

42 pages and counting. Lines were drawn, lines were on, lines were obviously snorted.

 

One thing that this board can agree on is that on issues like this ... we really can't agree on anything. That is fantastic. Why? Because really in this "world", no one is ever truly wrong or truly right.

 

Roy....? That you...?

 

 

There are things that are truly wrong and truly right. Not a lot, but there are some.

 

I can think of 10 right off the top of my head.

 

The conspirator in me wants to feel that Paypal knows people are going to use personal for means other than "personal". That they want you to use it against their stated TOS... just so they can cut it off, then they have ensured that they will always receive there service charge.

 

I'm sure there is some reason they offer paypal personal that benefits their company... and its not goodwill either. There has to be something monetarily related to make them offer a "no charge" option to its customers. Again as stated in the thread earlier "nothing is free". Did anyone post in this monstrosity the reason why Paypal offers personal, other than a service. The real reason they do it? Regulations to save on taxes, filing regulations, etc? I would like to know if anyone has that info... because again, it can't just be for goodwill towards the customer.

 

Yes. It was posted several times, by several people.

 

I never once used paypal personal until I started here on the boards a little over a year ago. Not once. I never asked for it either. Always stated in payment terms "whatever form of paypal that your comfortable with and saves me & you money, is good paypal to me".

 

Am I morally corrupt? Is RMA really Jesus?

 

Not even close. You and me are in the same boat. But...again...it's not about me. Nor is it about you. It's about the issue.

 

Should I charge my dog a service charge if he becomes unrully? Can Mikenyc88 really get me some of that high quality Japanese catapillar porn?

 

These questions may never be answered (tho I hope one will via PM ).

 

Just realize, that Coke knows exactly how much sodium to put in their drinks to keep you thirsty... and reach for another Coke.

 

And that required daily intake of Coke the Feds instituted makes it a killer.....

 

[DiceX]

42 pages and counting. Lines were drawn, lines were on, lines were obviously snorted.

 

One thing that this board can agree on is that on issues like this ... we really can't agree on anything. That is fantastic. Why? Because really in this "world", no one is ever truly wrong or truly right.

 

Roy....? That you...?

 

 

There are things that are truly wrong and truly right. Not a lot, but there are some.

 

I can think of 10 right off the top of my head.

 

The conspirator in me wants to feel that Paypal knows people are going to use personal for means other than "personal". That they want you to use it against their stated TOS... just so they can cut it off, then they have ensured that they will always receive there service charge.

 

I'm sure there is some reason they offer paypal personal that benefits their company... and its not goodwill either. There has to be something monetarily related to make them offer a "no charge" option to its customers. Again as stated in the thread earlier "nothing is free". Did anyone post in this monstrosity the reason why Paypal offers personal, other than a service. The real reason they do it? Regulations to save on taxes, filing regulations, etc? I would like to know if anyone has that info... because again, it can't just be for goodwill towards the customer.

 

Yes. It was posted several times, by several people.

 

I never once used paypal personal until I started here on the boards a little over a year ago. Not once. I never asked for it either. Always stated in payment terms "whatever form of paypal that your comfortable with and saves me & you money, is good paypal to me".

 

Am I morally corrupt? Is RMA really Jesus?

 

Not even close. You and me are in the same boat. But...again...it's not about me. Nor is it about you. It's about the issue.

 

Should I charge my dog a service charge if he becomes unrully? Can Mikenyc88 really get me some of that high quality Japanese catapillar porn?

 

These questions may never be answered (tho I hope one will via PM ).

 

Just realize, that Coke knows exactly how much sodium to put in their drinks to keep you thirsty... and reach for another Coke.

 

And that required daily intake of Coke the Feds instituted makes it a killer.....

 

 

Did you get that order taken care of yet?

Please tell me this will not continue yet another day.