Re: OT - PayPal Question
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: When you pay for something with Paypal, you have the option of specifying which funding source they will use. You can register as many credit cards as you want with them, and choose them instead of your bank account when buying things to obtain extended warranty or price protection, etc, services. I do this with an AmEx card account. I agree with the above. What I have not managed yet is to renew my CC allocation. I have a balance of $1.43 for 9 months now. Kostas
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On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Graywolf wrote: To accept paypal you have to give them access to your bank account. Then anything you buy they do an ETF bankdraft and only if that does not go through do they charge it to your credit card. In other words they use your credit card for a back up. Not great if you don't want to use funds in your bank for the purchase. In my particular case this makes no difference because I actually do not have a credit card but a visa check card instead which, of course, drafts my checking account, however I have heard some complaints from folks who thought they were making the purchase on time. There may actually be someway around this but as I said it makes no difference in my own case. When you pay for something with Paypal, you have the option of specifying which funding source they will use. You can register as many credit cards as you want with them, and choose them instead of your bank account when buying things to obtain extended warranty or price protection, etc, services. I do this with an AmEx card account. Godfrey
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Some points no one has mentioned. To accept paypal you have to give them access to your bank account. Then anything you buy they do an ETF bankdraft and only if that does not go through do they charge it to your credit card. In other words they use your credit card for a back up. Not great if you don't want to use funds in your bank for the purchase. In my particular case this makes no difference because I actually do not have a credit card but a visa check card instead which, of course, drafts my checking account, however I have heard some complaints from folks who thought they were making the purchase on time. There may actually be someway around this but as I said it makes no difference in my own case. When you want to get funds from your paypal account you log on to paypal and do a transfer to your bank. I use BOA and the transfer goes through in a matter of hours, definately the money has always been available the next business day. I have heard people at other banks horror stories where it takes a week or ten days to show up in their account. There is also a paypal debit card you can get and just draw directly from your paypal account. I believe you can also get a paypal credit card, and then they charge the card in preference to your bank account when you make a purchase, I wonder why ? BTW, some folks use their paypal account as kind of a hidden bank account. Since paypal is not licensed as a bank they are (or at least were) exempt from some of the banking laws. They do not (or did not--things change) report to the IRS either. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Shel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 7/1/2005
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You press the Withdraw button. This wil transfere funds to you credit card account. I guess yuo must be internatianally verified in order to do this. Get a second credit card, like a MasterCard. Regards Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 1. juli 2005 05:20 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: OT - PayPal Question Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Shel
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- Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: OT - PayPal Question Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Thats the big secret about PayPal. Apparently, there is a way to get your money from them. I haven't figured it out yet. William Robb
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On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. I still do it the slow, free way ... slow being about two days to transfer direct to my bank with no fee. Paypal already gets their 3.5% for the service so I can take credit card payments, etc, don't want to pay them any more. Basically, you just do a Withdraw Funds and point them to your authorized bank account. Simple and easy. I generally don't mind the wait, as I don't sell things with any desperrate hurry to get the money in mind. Godfrey
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I don't know how it is now but it used to take up to 3 days and it was PAYPALS fault. ( this was 2 years ago) Back then if you needed funds you had to request them and then they deducted them immediately but didn't transfer right away- total scam. I don't need cash so I just spend the money with debit card instead of my banking account money to get it out. Works for me. JCO -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:34 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT - PayPal Question The transfers from paypal to my checking account go through quite rapidly. Perhaps it's your bank that's at fault? Paul On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:29 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I used to get the money transferred out of paypal account into my bank > checking account in lump sums by request (free) . It was slow and > sucked. Then they came out with the paypal debit Mastercard which is > great, just spend > the money out as needed. I would not recommend any other way of > doing it. If you need cash you can use PP card at ATMs but fees are > high. Cheapest > way to get cash quick is buy postal money orders with PP debit card and > then > cash them at same window! this way you can get up to $500 CASH out of > the > paypal account for only 85 cents and FAST. I don't do it often as I > just > end > up spending the money out without any difficulty either on ebay or in > "real life". > > JCO > > -Original Message- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:20 PM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: OT - PayPal Question > > > Hi, > > I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I > cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps > someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account > would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What > are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? > > Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. > > Shel > >
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the paypal debit card is way better scheme dude. get it, its free. jco -Original Message- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:31 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT - PayPal Question Paypal deducts a small percentage of the gross proceeds. I don't remember how much. I retrieve my funds by having them transfered to my checking account. It's quite simple and has worked well for me. Paul On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Hi, > > I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I > cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps > someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account > would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What > are the options > of getting the $$? How long does it take? > > Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. > > Shel > >
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The transfers from paypal to my checking account go through quite rapidly. Perhaps it's your bank that's at fault? Paul On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:29 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: I used to get the money transferred out of paypal account into my bank checking account in lump sums by request (free) . It was slow and sucked. Then they came out with the paypal debit Mastercard which is great, just spend the money out as needed. I would not recommend any other way of doing it. If you need cash you can use PP card at ATMs but fees are high. Cheapest way to get cash quick is buy postal money orders with PP debit card and then cash them at same window! this way you can get up to $500 CASH out of the paypal account for only 85 cents and FAST. I don't do it often as I just end up spending the money out without any difficulty either on ebay or in "real life". JCO -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:20 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: OT - PayPal Question Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Shel
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Paypal deducts a small percentage of the gross proceeds. I don't remember how much. I retrieve my funds by having them transfered to my checking account. It's quite simple and has worked well for me. Paul On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Shel
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I used to get the money transferred out of paypal account into my bank checking account in lump sums by request (free) . It was slow and sucked. Then they came out with the paypal debit Mastercard which is great, just spend the money out as needed. I would not recommend any other way of doing it. If you need cash you can use PP card at ATMs but fees are high. Cheapest way to get cash quick is buy postal money orders with PP debit card and then cash them at same window! this way you can get up to $500 CASH out of the paypal account for only 85 cents and FAST. I don't do it often as I just end up spending the money out without any difficulty either on ebay or in "real life". JCO -Original Message- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 11:20 PM To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: OT - PayPal Question Hi, I'm thinking about starting to take PayPal for auction payments, but I cannot find out from the PayPal site how I get my money. Perhaps someone can explain the process of how the money in my PayPal account would get into my hands. What info do I have to give PayPal? What are the options of getting the $$? How long does it take? Off list is fine ... on list is OK, too. Shel
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Monday, May 17, 2004, 4:53:54 PM, Boris wrote: BL> Hi! >>Therefore, no paypal there. You yourself can't use paypal, judging >>from your .ru email. So why do you ask ;-) It seems you are both in >>the same country? BL> Frantisek, I live in Israel. I use free web-based e-mail that is .ru BL> but it does not mean that I live there. BL> Thanks. Oops ;-) Sorry :) I though you were actually from .ru country Nevermind then. But as far as I know, the rest of the info holds - PayPal has no affiliate in Russian Federatin, therefore your "pal" cannot withdraw paypal payment. Except the skullduggery types of sending money hidden in the stuffing of an envelope (see Cotty's ? post), Western Union could be your bet. I don't like them personally because they are pretty expensive but I used them in a pinch. And I certainly know that lot of people from Russia/... working semi-legally in the EU use WU to send their money home. I would even think it's the main revenuce of WU here. From experience from friends dealing with Russian Federation, just sending money in an envelope isn't safe. Well, it isn't safe even in our country, and we are member of European Union now. Either adopt the skullduggery approach or use one of the ripoff wire transfer services. Sorry. Best regards, Frantisek Vlcek
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Or just stick cash inside a greeting card. That doesn't work well if the guy is likely to claim he never got the money though. -- Cotty wrote: On 17/5/04, BORIS, discombobulated, offered: I need to transfer a small sum of money, something like $30 to the person who does not have PayPal account. However, according to PayPal anyone with e-mail address can receive money. How is that done? Anyone has first hand experience with receiving money through PayPal without having account there? Does the fact that the person in question lives in Moscow makes issue more complicated? The person receiving the money will have to register with Paypal and lodge a credit card and/or a bank account. Don't forget the fees. If I were you I would bung 30 bucks in an envelope and go for it. If you're worried about theft, try this: I sent a few hundred dollars to our dear South American PDMLer Albano using the following method. I printed off a couple of pics and place them in an A4 sized reinforced envelope. Within that envelope I also created a small space inside where the cash was concealed, sort of like an envelop taped inside an envelope. But it was done so in a way that if someone unsealed the main envelope, the hidden envelope could not be seen. It was hidden behind stiffening, ostensibly for the enclosed pics :-) The main envelope was very thick anyway, and what with all the extra padding and stiffening, any mail-thief would have opened it up, seen the pics, nothing else, put it back, carried on. The envelope needed to be carefully destroyed to retrieve the cash. Counterfeiting, smuggling, espionage, you name it. Cotty's your man ;-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
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Hi! Counterfeiting, smuggling, espionage, you name it. Cotty's your man ;-) Your idea is cool. But I've found a person, you can think of them as of an agent, who'd pass the money directly... Boris
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Cotty wrote to Boris: > If I were you I would bung 30 bucks in an envelope and go for it. I was going to suggest the very same thing. Just to let you know that at least two of us think so. :-) (snip Cotty's detailed description of sending lots of money) ERN
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Boris lives in Israel ... Shel Belinkoff > [Original Message] > From: Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/17/2004 5:56:52 AM > Subject: Re: OT: PayPal question > > Hi Boris, > > Russian Federation is not on the list of countries approved by Paypal. > Therefore, no paypal there. You yourself can't use paypal, judging > from your .ru email. So why do you ask ;-) It seems you are both in > the same country? Definitely, even with Putinization of the life in RF, there should be > ways to send money reasonably securely inside the country? If you are > in fact living abroad and just have a .ru address, I can't help you > much but point to Western Union. It will be more costly though. > > Best regards, >Frantisek Vlcek
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Hi Boris, Russian Federation is not on the list of countries approved by Paypal. Therefore, no paypal there. You yourself can't use paypal, judging from your .ru email. So why do you ask ;-) It seems you are both in the same country? Definitely, even with Putinization of the life in RF, there should be ways to send money reasonably securely inside the country? If you are in fact living abroad and just have a .ru address, I can't help you much but point to Western Union. It will be more costly though. Best regards, Frantisek Vlcek
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"Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to transfer a small sum of money, something like $30 to the >person who does not have PayPal account. However, according to PayPal >anyone with e-mail address can receive money. How is that done? Pay Pal sends the recipient an email saying they can have your $30.00... if they sign up with Pay Pal. >has first hand experience with receiving money through PayPal without >having account there? Does the fact that the person in question lives >in Moscow makes issue more complicated? Oh yeah... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
