>> ... While the advantage of PayPal over a credit card is in >> dispute, I think the advantage of being able to buy things >> online vs not being able to buy things on line is pretty >> high. > > I am confused -- are you for, or against having a sensibly > protected PayPal account?
I'm 100% for it and use one often. I have no credit cards but I do have an Amazon wishlist. > umm -- your CongressCritters have been at work; recent new > reporting requirements were added (albeit in arrears of the > current tax year) to require Pay Pal AND credit card companies > to report transactions to the all seeing I(RS). I would > expect truly anonymous plastic to disappear soon. True they're working on it, but they havent completely hit the prepaid debit card industry (to my knowledge.) I don't want to promote the place I used to work because I really, really hate them, but they had an anonymous, single-use debit card. They discontinued it because of lack of consumer demand but the government hadn't yet been successfull at shutting it down. They will honor them as long as there are cards on store shelves that people buy, until they are all gone (they may already be, but some were out there as of about four months ago.) The company was not a bank, nor was it specifically PayPal so maybe it was the low profile, but they were getting good at stalling the government, and I suspect that if they succeed until Novemeber... -Matt -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
