PayPal Community

I see the paypal admin taking our suggestion, but I have to say to him: the thing WAS possible. Paypal REMOVED the function (how else is it possible that my account has a bunch of foreign addresses?). So I doubt putting it on feature request will result in seeing it coming back. Fortunately I have some ancient foreign addresses in my account, so at least I am often able to create the right shipping cost, and then I email the seller to change the wrong address manually. Guess it makes me void any Paypal protection, but for gifts I don't care about that anyway. ... View more

That's why their should be an option to buy without protection! But then again, you come back to the basic design flaw of Paypal: that it uses emailadress + password to verify transactions. Maybe it is an idea to combine Paypal with iDeal like systems (Dutch e-payment system) with a calculator tool (the ones that use transaction detail input are the most secure) for more secure authentication. This way adding remote addresses would be no longer a problem, as it is no longer possible for a Nigerian spammer to fill up his house on others accounts. ... View more