MasterCard Says No More PayPal
from the ouch dept
In a couple of weeks you may no longer be able to use your MasterCard to make a PayPal payment. MasterCard has said that they won't let charges go through from "third parties" such as PayPal in order to prevent fraud. Of course, the real reason might have something to do with the folks at MasterCard suddenly realizing that small online businesses are no longer signing up directly with MasterCard for merchant accounts, and just going straight to PayPal instead. PayPal says they're negotiating with MasterCard to figure out some sort of exemption from the new rule.
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Jah?
1. Honestly, it wouldn't.
2. Some of us are "readers" and don't care.
3. If you want bright shiny objects to look out, try Slashdot
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2. The site gets plenty of traffic. I didn't know you had looked at our logs and decided it hadn't. The number of comments the site get doesn't reflect the traffic level. It absolutely amazes me that people think they have to explain to me that I don't get enough traffic. I do this site so that people who like it can come and read it. There are plenty of people who seem to like it and come back everyday. Those are the people I do it for. Our traffic keeps increasing every week and has for the past 3 years. It's nice that you're concerned about the traffic of the site, but I'm not. If I wasn't happy with the traffic why would I keep doing this?
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Why would i waste my time reading it then. That guy has a point. It blows.
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We don't need no steenk'n icons.
Actually, I come for the pretty words.
When strung together they make pretty sentences.
When those sentences are grouped they convey thoughts, opinions and ideas.
I like pretty words.
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Re: We don't need no steenk'n icons.
eg: bob makes a paypal payment to fred.
Fred gets check, and cashes it.
bob then refutes payment on credit card, saying he got damaged goods,
now, paypal has fronted the money, and doesnt get it from MC ?
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Why is every story from News.com?
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