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Quoted from Barakawins1:Especially, if you have a linked bank account to paypal.
Yep, that's about as bad as having any of your bills on autopay.
If you have paypal, I'd say give them as little ways as possible to get their hooks in your money
Simple. Only use paypal for purchases and don't link your bank account.
Or better yet, don't use them at all.
Quoted from GPS:Simply ask to have paypal send you a check. Costs like .20 but really worth it to avoid the hassles that the op has shared. Vid1900 advised unlinking your Paypal account to any bank accounts in one of his very helpful posts a while back
Cost like $1.50 and max per month I can get out is $1000 less that $1.50. Because I give them as little as possible to go on.
Or you can gift it out in larger amounts without any fees up to your balance according to their user agreement. Which they will totally disregard and call it a glitch in their system until you waste a half a day on the phone with them and finally break down and give them more info than the user agreement requires or link it to your bank account.
There is nobody at paypal to talk to that can fix what is built into their system to disregard their own user agreement.
Didn't need some like vid to tell me that.
I won't use paypal for any more than a couple hundred dollars either way any more. And sure as hell am not giving them my social security #. Or linking it to anything beyond a credit card.
I keep a paypal account for small purchases off eBay and some pinball parts purchases. Very convenient for that.
But I found out how evil they are when I accepted $4000 for a pinball machine that I just wanted to see gone and that is the only way the buyer who I trusted was willing to pay, fees and all. And then I could not get it out as per the user agreement. So I learned and never did that again.
At one point my account was so jacked I could not use friends and family at all. So the rep I talked with was very helpful and told me to just close the account and start over. Been fine for my occasional menial purchases and gifts ever since.
It's also risky putting your credit card out there for grabs, so you kinda gotta pick your poison on long distance purchases from people you do not know.
Quoted from cottonm4:I have always wondered how many of these places have a business model where they are hoping you quit coming add no wear to the equipments but they also hope also forget to turn your bank account off. And that you never look at your statements. The Phantom Customer.
Once you try to quit something on autopay, it's like a steamroller already going full speed ahead. Good luck with that.
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