Thread: Damn paypal

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

I had mine set up that way until some bogus charges started showing up...what a pain to straighten out!!

So I now use it a credit card that I almost never use. I used to have it linked to my primary credit card and once it was hacked, my card had to be replaced, etc. Now I only use it with one I don't care about....easier to watch for problems, it has fraud protection AND i don't care if it has to be replaced.

As an aside, the Paypal resolution process sucked. They were no (ZERO) help.

Yeah, I'd rather not give Paypal access to my account details but it turned out that the money on my pp-account was a couple dollars short because of a small charge that Paypal added so I decided to use an E-card that my bank generates to substitute the missing $2.

I don't know if you have them in the states but an E-card is a virtual credit card with a spending limit and expiry date that you set yourself and they can't be linked back to your bank account.
I use them as much as possible when buying stuff over the net, especially if I don't completely trust the company.