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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    duh, 19 Apr 2002 @ 1:56pm

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    this site would get so much more posts and hits if you made better icons for the story categories

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      Timaaay!, 19 Apr 2002 @ 4:45pm

      Jah?

      this site would get so much more posts and hits if you made better icons for the story categories
      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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      Mike (profile), 19 Apr 2002 @ 11:25pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      1. While I appreciate feedback of all kinds, and do take comments concerning the look and feel seriously, this is not the place to discuss this. There is a "feedback" option - which you can easily see. Instead, you chose to do this publicly, which suggests you're trying to show me up. That lessens your credibility greatly. The fact that you refused to leave a name or any identifying info doesn't help your case either.

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      bang, 21 Apr 2002 @ 1:46pm

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      The icon on this story.. "News You Can Do Without?".. that is very silly.

      Why would i waste my time reading it then. That guy has a point. It blows.

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    Anonymous Moron, 21 Apr 2002 @ 6:27pm

    We don't need no steenk'n icons.

    this site would get so much more posts and hits if you made better icons for the story categories

    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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      sb, 22 Apr 2002 @ 9:09am

      Re: We don't need no steenk'n icons.

      Paypal has ALL SORTS OF ROOM for FRAUD ..

      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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        Chronic Blunt, 22 Apr 2002 @ 9:46am

        Why is every story from News.com?

        This site would be so much better if there were other sources for the news besides News.com and Wired News. If I want to read the news on those sites I'll just go there directly. Don't mean to be a criticizing dickhead, but sites like Techdirt need to dig deeper to be useful...

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