PayPal, etc.

[zscoundrel]

Obviously, I do have different standards and priorities than you do.

One of my priorities is that a service provider must provide a usable 
service!  As I pointed out in my previous note, more users equals better 
functionality.  When you need to exchange money online, it helps of BOTH 
parties of the transaction use the same online service.

I have been using the service for almost a year now and have not had any 
trouble.  But then, I am not out to defraud people on the internet, nor 
has anyone had any reason to express any concern with any of the 
hundreds of online transactions I have completed in the last year.

I have had transactions with several people that did not use PayPal for 
various reasons.  Interestingly enough, most of the 'reasons' given for 
not using PayPal were based mostly on anecdotal evidence and had little 
factual support.

BTW, Choosing the path less traveled, just because it is less traveled, 
does not indicate a great deal of intelligence or independent thought - 
it is just a different knee jerk reaction to a given stimuli.  Choosing 
the proper path based on a sober analysis of the criteria would probably 
  give more satisfactory results.

Hmmm, were you aware that the same forty million people from the 
previous note choose to breathe constantly???  Do you consider that fact 
to be a good reason to stop?

The point of the thread - originally - was a request from one of the 
group to gather insight from people who were actually USING PayPal and 
Linux together.  This is what I provided.  Hopefully, it also provided 
some insight to the group.

Now that the thread has digressed away from the original topic, perhaps 
we can let it drop.  While I still find the information from this thread 
to be somewhat enlightening, but I suspect it's usefulness might not be 
up to the standards of the list.  Could we just drop it while we are 
still ahead of the game?

DCT Jared Smith wrote:

> Obviously, you use different standards to prioritize your resources
> than I do. Forty million other people doing something is a reason
> for me NOT to do it.
> 
> -Jared
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>>But how many users does it have???  PayPal has millions of registered
>>users and this is what makes it so functional.  Forty million users
>>makes it the preferred online transaction service.
>>
>>DCT Jared Smith wrote:
>>
>>>No way! Don't use PayPal!
>>>
>>>Use http://www.tipjar.com/
>>>
>>>It's a local effort, right here in KC, and was around long
>>>before paypal IIRC.
>>>
>>>-Jared
>>>
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