John,
I've been with Paypal since before EBay purchased them. You do need a bank
account with them, but you can select more funding and pay with a credit
card as long as the merchant you are doing business with accepts credit
cards. Otherwise, you will need to have the funds automatically deducted
through Electronic Fund Transfer from your bank account.
There are no fees as a buyer. Merchants pay a fee, and an additional fee if
they accept credit cards.
Again, if you are smart, there should be no problems with PayPal and they
guarantee that in their agreement.
You don't need to set up a Paypal money account, although they do pay
interest on their accounts.
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
> no minimum account balance that I know of, I guess they're safe. The only
> thing I don't like about them is they require a bank account in order to
> use
> them after you spend so much with them through a credit card, it's
> different
> every time some one I know signs up, but for me it was after I spend a
> total
> of $2000 with them I'll have to register a bank account, my mother it was
> like $500. I only have 1 bank account and there's no way in you know
> where,
> they're getting that info. They used to have a lot of problems in the past
> with closing out accounts and withholding the money in that account with
> them, and a few other things you can read about if you search the net, but
> since Ebay bought them out 2 or 3 years ago, I don't know of anyone who's
> had any issues but I will never trust them or any other web site with bank
> account info.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frederick" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:31 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>
>
>> Three questions I have always had about pay pal is do you need a minimum
>> account balance with them? Also, what kind of fees do they charge? How
>> safe
>> are they to use?
>>
>> God bless,
>> Mark WZ0K
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>>
>>
>>> sorry, I didn't see paypal mentioned in the subject line. they have an
>>> audio
>>> link you can listen to the audio to get those characters. I didn't see
>>> the
>>> subject line, I seldom watch those in the morning when I'm going through
>>> all
>>> my morning email.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 8:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: off topic Paypal question
>>>
>>>
>>>> unfortunately, you don't. the only way that some times works, is if you
>>>> print out the page and then scan it in to an OCR program and even that
>>>> isn't
>>>> 100% useful.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Harvey" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:21 AM
>>>> Subject: off topic Paypal question
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I know this has been discussed before, but how does a blind person type
>>>>>in
>>>>> the characters in the security box when it says to do so? I have
>>>>> looked
>>>>> for
>>>>> them, but JFW apparently can't find them. 73.
>>>>> Harvey
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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