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gearloose · ‎Apr-08-2014

UPDATE: Customer service threw up their hands on the issue and gave me their Legal Department's address. So I mailed them. But I do not think it all matters much any more because this event finally motivated me to do something I have been meaning to get to for years, and there will be a happy outcome regardless. I hired a Web Devlopment firm to create a new store, and my Credit Card Gateway is all approved and set up. So, Paypal can continue to get a piece of the action here, or not. I don't care. It's their loss. I no longer need them. In every cloud, there's a silver lining. Thanks, Paypal, for the motivation for self-improvement! I think the part that makes it all funny now is that the email announcing the new Update to terms said, "We know you hate reading these, but..." It should be amended to read, "We pray you do not. It worked for Facebook!"

gearloose · ‎Apr-05-2014

OK, I think I have a workaround that will allow me to keep the account. 1: Install third party shopping cart. 2: Remove all Paypal graphics, buttons, and links. Wipe Paypal shopping cart. Delete all buttons, etc on Paypal. 3: Manually Send a Paypal invoice from Paypal's site OR use my new CC processer, giving customers the option. 4; Deny all IP connections or links from or to Paypal. That will take care of this part: Subject to section 15.6, when providing PayPal with content or posting content using PayPal Services, I just will not provide them with content, nor include or link to theirs. Easy solution to a Gordian Knot.

gearloose · ‎Apr-05-2014

Thank you for your response. Facebook is out because of their IP policies, but I will try Email followed by Certified. By many accounts, verbal conversations about matters like these are not usually successful. I genuinely regret the situation, because Paypal has been an important business service for us. For readers curious about what the fuss is about: Things like Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, and Copyrighted material and Work Product) are COMPANY ASSETS and PROPERTY. If a company is sold, along with Good Faith, they are actual assetts and part of the sale. For a party to demand uncompensated perpetual unrestriced use of these properties is identical to them demanding the use of your company truck or your coffee room, etc. whenever they want, forever. Unlike your company truck, which you can lock up in a garage or equip with alarms, however, IP requires active defense, or you lose its value. I cannot sign away my rights to that. It's absurd. I have applied to a CC processer today. The Nuclear Option is to fire Paypal. Too bad. According to the 1099, they are going to miss it.

gearloose · ‎Apr-05-2014

RE: 15.5 License Grant from You to PayPal; IP Warranties. Subject to section 15.6, when providing PayPal with content or posting content using PayPal Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, database rights and intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or in the future. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights against PayPal, its sublicensees or its assignees. You represent and warrant that none of the following infringe any intellectual property or publicity right: your provision of content to PayPal, your posting of content using the PayPal Services, and PayPal’s use of such content (including of works derived from it) in connection with the PayPal Services.” About twice a year, I have to defend my Intellectual Property from infringers and counterfeiters. I am legally obligated to do so. You know that. I am sorry, but I do not have the authority to revoke Title 17 USC, nor can I revoke my right to due process. This reminds me of Google saying, "Forget everything we said. Everything you type is now cross-platform", or Facebook saying, "Forget everything we said: If we want to use your wedding photos in feminine hygine commercials, we can". I demand a fuller explanation of this amendment. The use of my Marks and Copyrighted material for uncompensated commercial gain MUST be pursued. You know that. Until you have paid Washington bribes to the extent Google and Facebook have, I do not see how you think you will not get hit for this, and Class Action status for someone with Paypal's deep pockets is nearly a given. I reject the terms of 15.5. Now. Do I close the account May 15? Is that what you want? Explain yourselves.

gearloose · ‎Nov-23-2013

Thank you for the clue about the (") character. I must review all my buttons now. I habve had troubples a couple f years with the code seeming to corrupt suddenly.. No one could resolve it.

gearloose · ‎Aug-23-2012

5-7 days clearance for an E check. Then perhaps four for it to be sent to my business bank account. On the very day I got the notice on the E check clearance time, the bank account I use received an EFT from Hong Kong EIGHTEEN HOURS after it was transmitted. From AU usually takes 3-4 days, tops. I think it is reasonable to wonder who has the use of the money in the 10 days or so it is floating* around. Is someone taking it to the casino and trying to double it? They certainly have time to do so. I could be sent a money order or cashiers' check by snail mail faster than this. I'll take a look and see if there is a way I can refuse E-checks in the future. *Yes, the term is called "Float".

gearloose · ‎Jun-30-2012

Some of the delays are in the interbank netwqork and your local bank. It's called "Float", and does benefit Paypal, just as the time it takes for your personal checks to clear benefit you. While the transfer is going on and has not been credited, they are getting interest on it, just as we get the pitiful interest on our checking balances. Despite all the jokes, I doubt Paypal REALLY takes the money to the casino before transmitting it. Yes, I wish it were faster, too. I get EFTs from Singapore faster than I get Paypal payments. The Banking and Finance industories are often slow to adapt technologies. For example, they still use FAX machines. (Mine is back in 1980, where it belongs.)

gearloose · ‎Sep-26-2011

"Here is the part of the code that is not working correctly: " In my case, the button code becomes corrputed in transmission, and therefore points to a nonexistant button. This causes the message, 'There is a problem with the website..." I can see this corruption as "View Source" on my storefront webpage.. Sometimes the corrupted code is on the button code when viewed in "edit Button" on the Paypal server. When I view the code on my stored copy of the storefront, it is uncorrupted. By corrupted, I mean that alphanumeric string that identified the button has either been truncated or scrambled. I use a MANUAL coder, Edit Rocket. Generally,. this failure happens on weekends, when many people online shop. I have never seen the scrambled code appear on the HTML Storefront copy on my local machines As is always the case with any IT department, the first thing always said is, "It isn't us". So, whether it is Paypal, or whether it is my commercial hosting server doing compressed backups, given the denial poilcy of both IT departments, it is likely not to get resolved any time soon. . One clue: When this happens, ping and Traceroute to Paypal times out. Could be a web fault between my host and Paypal. So I just put a notice on my store that says, "If the weekend button failure appears, just email me your shopping list and I'll send you an invoice". It's either do that or lose the sales. The first few times it happened, I was angry. I am far beyond that now. Now I am resolved to fix it one way or another, even if it means running my own server, changing Storefronts, or taking CCs and firing everybody involved. I am not selling trinkets. These sales are usually hundreds of dollars each. When my customers have a little problem buying goods, I have a huge problem. Oh, it WILL get fixed. One way or another.

gearloose · ‎Jul-19-2011

So, about once a week I get this forwarded to me from a frustrated customer, who want to add a few items. And I check the site and cart with different browsers and they work fine. There is something about IT Departments, where they scream, "It's not us! It's not US! Reinstall your OS," etc, or "The Problem is somewhere else!" As usual, it is a lie. QED: TraceRoute to 66.211.169.14 Paypal.com Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name 1 1 0 0 8.9.232.73 xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net 2 1 1 0 4.69.145.204 ae-4-90.edge2.dallas3.level3.net 3 0 1 0 4.71.220.14 xo-communic.edge2.dallas3.level3.net 4 0 0 0 207.88.15.46 207.88.15.46.ptr.us.xo.net 5 0 0 1 207.88.82.222 207.88.82.222.ptr.us.xo.net 6 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 7 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 8 Timed out Timed out Timed out - 9 Timed out Timed out Timed out - Trace aborted. My workaround is to have them email me their order. Then I send a PP Invoice.

gearloose · ‎Jul-01-2011

Don't *bleep* me when you deserve to be sworn at. This is not a hobby, this is my living.

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