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I Just Fired PayPal -- What is the Best Alternate Person to Person Payment System?

posted by martyb on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:53PM   
from the define-"best" dept.

e_armadillo writes:

I have been using PayPal off and on since 2012 for 2 main reasons.

1 - Convenience, I didn't have to enter a credit card every time I purchased from a site other than usual trusted sites where I store my payment information, like Amazon, and sending payments to friends/family was simple.
2 - Peace of mind.

I recently found that the assumption of (2) was wrong, so I fired PayPal. I don't want to get into the details. Beyond being therapeutic, it won't really make life better moving forward.

That brings me to the question, since I have fired PayPal, I am sure that someone will want to send me, or more likely, have me send them money. Before I go out and research the providers on my own, I thought I would come here. What do Soylentils suggest for peer to peer payments?

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Original Submission

• Re:You don't "fire" a service Re:You don't "fire" a service (Score: 3, Interesting) by aclarke on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:32PM

  by aclarke (2049) on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:32PM (#435608) Homepage

  Well the submitter did mention "fired PayPal" three times in the summary, so maybe they made up for quality with volume.
  
  On the other hand, they took the time to write up an article and submit it to SN. And here we are discussing it. So, win.
  
  Back on subject, I use Interac e-transfers [interac.ca] for this. Insert snarky comment about Canadian superiority here. But seriously, what's up with the US banking system?

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• Re:You don't "fire" a service (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:54PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:54PM (#435624)

  But seriously, what's up with the US banking system?

  Greed and lawlessness. So the same old same old.

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• Re:You don't "fire" a service (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @04:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @04:21AM (#435798)

  Submitter is a Trump fan.

  It's easy to say fuck you, you suck, I'm outta here, never again. Of course, sometimes it's justified but I think people get lazy about holding others to a higher standard of consistency of performance and ethics (like, illegal file sharing doesn't hurt anybody?) than they think they themselves should be held to.

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