I'm not a fan of some of Paypal's policies. But alot of the whining in this thread is just ridiculous. It seems as if several of you...
1. Can't follow simple instructions. The activation procedure is straight forward and fairly simple.
2. Must just be getting your first account of any kind. You don't know what the $1.00 authorizations are?... And that they disappear in short order? I must see at least half a dozen of these a month.
3. I've called Paypal CS about a dozen times over the last few years... Four or five times in the past week due to some fraudulent charges on my debit card. I've always gotten an answer (never a busy signal) and an agent on the line in less than five minutes (much better than most CS departments). They actually called me the same day as the charges were made because they found them to be suspicious and caught it before I had a chance.
Again, there are some policies I don't care for...
The fact they won't do anything about fraudulent charges while they're still "pending" and having to wait a week (in this case) to take action... Annoying as it's tying up my funds. But there may be technicalities involved I'm unaware of.
Certain policies on what you can and can't buy (based on politics)... Don't need a babysitter, thanks.
... There may be others I'm forgetting at the moment.
But the vast majority of complaints in this thread are the fault of the user and just plain silly.
