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People are complaining about PayPal "hiding behind antifraud", but real banks do this too - at least in the UK. My bank has phoned me up multiple times to check transactions. On one occasion they simply "black-holed" a credit card transaction and didn't bother to tell me, nor did the merchant contact me. On another, they made a simple purchase take 45 minutes of phone-tag because buying a bed is an "unusual" purchase. Well, DUH. Moving house is pretty fucking unusual, too.

I now try to remember to phone them before buying computer bits or large "unusual" purchases, but that has a 50% chance of a dropped call as they try to transfer my request.

So, no, PayPal aren't really any different to any other payment processor in my experience.




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