<quote who="David Brown"> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:46:25PM -0700, MattyJ wrote: >><quote who="David Brown"> >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:55:22PM -0700, Néstor wrote: >>> >>>>Visa allows you to get a 1 purchase credit card number. That would >>>>be the safest way to test something like this. >>> >>> That's what they got from me. >>> >>> David >> >>You can also do this with PayPal. You can effectively put a limit on the >>one time charge by only transferring that amount to PayPal then >>designating that as your only funding source. > > But with Visa I get a consumer protection system very much in my > favor. To sign up with PayPal, you have to agree to something much > less in your favor. > > If I don't receive a product I ordered, Visa will reverse the charges. > PayPal might. > > David
Has this happened to you, personally? I've had this happen to me three or four times through the years and PayPal was always at least as liberal about it as any credit card I've had in the past. I currently don't have/use any credit cards and PayPal is an excellent alternative for folks like me. I'd have to look it up, but their one-off credit cards are MasterCards and somehow I doubt they'd be able to use that licenses if they were in a position to tarnish MasterCard's good name. -Matt -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
