{"id":192,"date":"2009-07-22T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2009-07-22T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T14:27:30","slug":"further-adventures-with-ebay-now-with-extra-paypal-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/further-adventures-with-ebay-now-with-extra-paypal-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Further adventures with eBay, now with extra PayPal goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon had an unhappy experience buying an old magazine on eBay (see here<\/a>). It apparently got even better, once PayPal entered the picture:<\/p>\n

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Remember the magazine I told you about? The one with the $12 shipping?<\/p>\n

It gets better.<\/p>\n

I have a PC Financial chequing account associated with my PayPal account so that I can get money out of PayPal and into my bank. I do not keep any money in this account as I don’t want PayPal sneaking off with anything. Turns out that not keeping money in there was a bad idea.<\/p>\n

When I paid for the magazine, PayPal first tried to use the BANK ACCOUNT, rather than my Visa, to pay for the purchase. The transaction was declined by PC Financial and I was charged a $40 NSF fee.<\/p>\n

Forty. F**king. Dollars.<\/p>\n

I just paid forty dollars to have Galen Weston f**k my ass.<\/p>\n

PayPal then went ahead and billed my Visa for the transaction, which I what I expected them to do in the first place.<\/p>\n

When the f**k did PayPal change how they fund transactions? They have ALWAYS billed my Visa for purchases — they have NEVER tried to pull the amount from my bank account before. I this something they have changed recently, or what?<\/p>\n

Total cost for the magazine so far: $54.19<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Expensive magazine! I asked if it was okay to post the follow-on to the original story and he wrote:<\/p>\n

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Be sure to highlight the bit about Galen Weston and my ass.<\/p>\n

I know it’s not really his bank — it’s CIBC — but it’s his brand. Which somehow makes it even more of a rip-off.<\/p>\n

Humph.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

About funding the account: it turns out that what I experienced is their new default when you have a bank account associated with your PayPal account. I don’t recall being notified of that, so it’s my own damn fault for not reading the fine print, but still — that sort of change in behavior should not happen automatically.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Total cost for the magazine: $56.28.<\/p>\n

Oh — on shipping: I looked up the shipping cost for the USPS Flat Rate Envelope the guy used. His surcharge was only $2.00 — the actual postage was, indeed, over ten bucks. Does not really make me feel all that much better, but I guess the guy was not really being a total jerk about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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