Aight,

I want to buy a voucher for a friend, but my mum doesn't want me to transfer money to my paypal account. She 'doesn't trust the internet'. I told her that there are thousands of happy costumers, which I can prove here, but she still doesn't trust it. Would someone please explain here, why it's safe? She doesn't want to listen to me, maybe to the grown-ups here

PayPal was created by eBay to be completely safe, without PayPal, or if PayPal turns out to be fraudulent, eBay is dead. My dad and I have done dozens if not hundreds of PayPal transactions on eBay and other places, both buying and selling, and we've never had a problem.

i bought the S2 license via PayPal...
everythings worked perfect!
and with in one day i got the voucher!

Paypal works flawlessly. It always did.

Vain

I want to know who voted that they did have problems. Also, I think the thread title is a little difficult to understand, if not misleading. I had to read the post a couple times to get it

Quote from hrtburnout :

Aight,

I want to buy a voucher for a friend, but my mum doesn't want me to transfer money to my paypal account. She 'doesn't trust the internet'. I told her that there are thousands of happy costumers, which I can prove here, but she still doesn't trust it. Would someone please explain here, why it's safe? She doesn't want to listen to me, maybe to the grown-ups here

don't you have friends or team mates, how can buy a voucher for you via paypal...
and your mum can send the money to the bank of this person...
that should be safe enough

Paypal is propably the most safe online payment method.

Quote from 96 GTS :

PayPal was created by eBay to be completely safe, without PayPal, or if PayPal turns out to be fraudulent, eBay is dead. My dad and I have done dozens if not hundreds of PayPal transactions on eBay and other places, both buying and selling, and we've never had a problem.

nonsense. e-bay bought PayPal when PayPal was already an established and highly successful business.
Paypal has employed some highly dubious business tactics - particularly targetting small business, many who have had their accounts 'frozen' without reasonable explanation. Any Funds remaining in those accounts become instantly locked... I was lucky, when they froze mine it had exactly £0.00 in it.
here's some juice from wikipedia - it doesn't take much googling to find loads more

Quote from wikipedia :

In March 2002, two PayPal account holders separately sued the company for alleged violations of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) and California law. Most of the allegations concerned PayPal's dispute resolution procedures. The two lawsuits were merged into one class action lawsuit (In re PayPal litigation). An informal settlement was reached in November 2003, and a formal settlement was signed on June 11, 2004. The settlement requires that PayPal change its business practices (including changing its dispute resolution procedures to make them EFTA-compliant), as well as making a $9.25 million USD payment to members of the class. PayPal denies any wrongdoing.

Paypal isn't completely safe, then again, nothing on the net is completely safe either,but TBH you have got more chance of having your CC phished at a cashpoint or C&P console than losing any money via paypal.

Dan,

My mum didn't trust it either and I had to ask my uncle, which has got a PayPal account, to buy it for me. It is safe indeed, I know lots of people who work with it pretty often and never had any PayPal-related problems.

Quote from col :

nonsense. e-bay bought PayPal when PayPal was already an established and highly successful business.
Paypal has employed some highly dubious business tactics - particularly targetting small business, many who have had their accounts 'frozen' without reasonable explanation. Any Funds remaining in those accounts become instantly locked... I was lucky, when they froze mine it had exactly £0.00 in it.
here's some juice from wikipedia - it doesn't take much googling to find loads more

Well, I got some bad info then Thanks for the info, that kind of changes my view of PayPal, LOL.

me mum doesn't know me dad got S2 for me.

paypal is safe, or at least safer than most.

For payments I guess it's safe, but for hasty donations gathering, it's bit risky.

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