Sorry 'Paypal_Paula' but I disagree. It isn't necessary to give out your user's email addresses. Paypal should have an on-site messaging system (like Ebay) for trading messages. This could be redirected to the account email (as with Ebay who, after all, own Paypal). There is no reasonable reason for people you send or receive payments to and from to have access to your email address. We receive tuns of SPAM to our Paypal address from (often Oriental) sellers we bought from years ago who are ignorant and refuse to unsubscribe us. Live help Ebay reps either are (or pretend to be) unable to even understand the issue. Paypal proudly boast that our sensative financial details are not shared while letting anyone and everyone see our email addresses when this does not need to be so. Please at least consider changing the Paypal system to one of Username accessed accounts exactly like the one Ebay uses i.e. buyers and sellers communicating on site as on Ebay keeping registered email address private and only known to Paypal who should be the only entity sending mail to them. Then both SPAM and off-site trading will be stamped out over night. In not doing this Paypal are exhibiting that they they don't care about the security and best interests of their users. They have already done so repeatedly by ignoring this issue and fending off approaches from unhappy users with no good reason. If you could see our inbox and the level of spam 98% of which is received by our Paypal registered email address you'd understand why so many Paypal members are so very p'd off as it can, could have been, and should have been avoided by Paypal management... The fact that Paypal continue on in ignorance speaks volumes about their prioraties. - Even in the face of people here claimimg to be doing less Paypal business as a result... Paypal_Paula. Please feel free to tell us all why I am wrong...
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