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Paypal Ups the Ante Against Donate Buttons.
« on: December 06, 2011, 12:51:21 pm »
How Paypal Royally Screwed This Company And All the Kids It Was Trying to Help.

After reading this article, you start to get a little worried and sad and angry. However, I can't possibly just leave everyone with an article about this. I have to give you the original post about it on the site in question, the follow up to the original post, and and a friend of the site's comments on the whole she-bang.

@Randall, is TC in danger of facing a similar problem?
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2011, 03:37:06 pm »
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How Paypal Royally Screwed This Company And All the Kids It Was Trying to Help.

After reading this article, you start to get a little worried and sad and angry. However, I can't possibly just leave everyone with an article about this. I have to give you the original post about it on the site in question, the follow up to the original post, and and a friend of the site's comments on the whole she-bang.

@Randall, is TC in danger of facing a similar problem?

 
They learned their lesson.
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They learned their lesson.


Heh, heh.  Nobody messes with Helen Killer.  ;)

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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2011, 08:04:27 pm »
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Heh, heh.  Nobody messes with Helen Killer.  ;)

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They're very loyal to Helen et al.

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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2011, 08:26:49 am »
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@Randall, is TC in danger of facing a similar problem?

I have no idea nor do I worry about it. You hear all sorts of horror stories about Paypal, but you also here them about just about every other form of payment processing other than the direct exchange of US Dollars between two people.
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I have no idea nor do I worry about it. You hear all sorts of horror stories about Paypal, but you also here them about just about every other form of payment processing other than the direct exchange of US Dollars between two people.

 
That's very true.
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I have no idea nor do I worry about it. You hear all sorts of horror stories about Paypal, but you also here them about just about every other form of payment processing other than the direct exchange of US Dollars between two people.

 
I dunno. As an unregulated monopoly in the realm of online transactions, they clearly have a history of abusing their customers for the most absurd and unpredictable reasons. An artist whose blog I follow had his funds frozen because they deemed his nude photography un-Christian.

All it would take is a technical hiccup or an unusual surge in donations for TC to show up on their radar. And who's to say they wouldn't do the same to us for being a bunch of pagan infidels?

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Paypal Ups the Ante Against Donate Buttons.
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2011, 06:24:39 am »
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I dunno. As an unregulated monopoly in the realm of online transactions, they clearly have a history of abusing their customers for the most absurd and unpredictable reasons. An artist whose blog I follow had his funds frozen because they deemed his nude photography un-Christian.

All it would take is a technical hiccup or an unusual surge in donations for TC to show up on their radar. And who's to say they wouldn't do the same to us for being a bunch of pagan infidels?

Yeah, but that happens in other places too.  A major bank froze a knitting company's account because their sock club couldn't possibly be legit.  And yes, it was, and it took forever to straighten out.  In contrast this was at least quick.

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