<div dir="ltr"><div>The magic of the original paypal was that it could detect fraud when other companies (amex etc) could not. Thus making one email addr to another transfers viable.</div><div><br></div><div>The decision they made was to rather guess on the side of too many false fraud accusations vs not enough. If you think about the nature of something like hacker news, you have to expect a lot of odd-looking international transfers.</div><div><br></div><div>So paypal isn't a fit for hackernews. Okay.</div><div><br></div><div>The great irony of this is the small business that luuvs paypal that succeeds could start to look like hackernews.</div><div><br></div><div>That is a problem, indeed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--heusser<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 10:29 AM Mac McCarthy <<a href="mailto:mac.mccarthy@gmail.com">mac.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">What alternative to Paypal would you recommend? I am increasingly uncomfortable having to put in my credit card info online to be hacked (again and again) which is why i use Paypal to make online purchases.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">mac</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 7:22 AM Daniel Dern <<a href="mailto:dern@pair.com" target="_blank">dern@pair.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Curtis Franklin wrote:<br>
> This is why we have a parallel account at our bank (free, and they were<br>
> happy to set it up) that we use only for PayPal transactions;<br>
<br>
Yeah, I have a separate checking account at my main bank just for<br>
"money in" -- client ACH, tax refunds (sigh), other transfers.<br>
<br>
For Paypal, I use an account at a completely separate bank, to really <br>
limit "what might go wrong."<br>
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