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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Uncle_Al on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:29PM

    by Uncle_Al (1108) on Thursday December 01 2016, @06:29PM (#435574)

    Stop being such a fucking whore to advertisers who came up with the stupid term.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:03PM (#435591)

    Gotta do as the rich do in the hope of becoming rich. Mmmmmmmm, money.

    • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:14PM

      by DECbot (832) on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:14PM (#435596) Journal

      Let me sell you my 12 step process for getting rich! Here's a little demo of the product:

      1. Establish a 12-set process for getting rich
      2. Find a poor schmuck willing to buy your process
      3. < End of free sample >
         

      Like what you see? Order it now for 12 easy payments of $99.98!

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      • (Score: 2) by lgw on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:15PM

        by lgw (2836) on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:15PM (#435728)

        Let me give you a 3-step process for getting rich.

        1. Save half your take-home pay
        2. Invest in broad-based index stock ETFs, or "target-year" funds, or something similarly boring
        3. Be patient


        Whether you just understand how wealth works, or follow a religion such as Rich Dad Poor Dad or Mr Mustache, you do indeed have a well-tested recipe to follow to become wealthy. Of course, most people decide that maybe being wealthy isn't so important to them after all, and won't make the needed sacrifices, they just like to complain as if it were important.

         

        • (Score: 2) by mr_mischief on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:49PM

          by mr_mischief (4884) on Thursday December 01 2016, @11:49PM (#435739)

          Don't forget Financial Peace University. Dave Ramsay has his own little niche out there.

        • (Score: 4, Touché) by mhajicek on Friday December 02 2016, @02:45AM

          by mhajicek (51) on Friday December 02 2016, @02:45AM (#435778)

          So the first step toward getting rich is to have twice as much money as you need. Easy!

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          The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
          • (Score: 2) by lgw on Friday December 16 2016, @08:16PM

            by lgw (2836) on Friday December 16 2016, @08:16PM (#442191)

            You have confused "need" with "want". Most people do.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @02:10PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 02 2016, @02:10PM (#435926)

          You seem to have a very different definition of "rich" than me (or a very different take-home pay).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @07:16PM (#435598)

      +1 *sigh*

  • (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?
    • (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.

    • (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.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by e_armadillo on Thursday December 01 2016, @08:35PM

    by e_armadillo (3695) on Thursday December 01 2016, @08:35PM (#435649)

    OK, I have moved on and will be making do without their services. Happy?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @10:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 01 2016, @10:56PM (#435721)

    If he/she is American, nothing wrong with using a term his/her President-elect is famous for using.... just saying =)

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Francis on Friday December 02 2016, @04:38AM

    by Francis (5544) on Friday December 02 2016, @04:38AM (#435803)

    I dunno, perhaps he light their offices on fire and hasn't yet been arrested.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday December 02 2016, @07:19AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Friday December 02 2016, @07:19AM (#435849) Journal

      I dunno,

      We know, Francis, we know.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:05AM (#436406)

        I see you're posting under your own name for once. I get that you've got some sort of deep seated psychological problems, but perhaps rather than projecting your own issues onto me, you could actually get your ass into a library or school and learn a thing or two. Cherry picking partial phrases as a rhetorical style just makes you look like a giant ass.

        Personally, I don't care what minds like yours care about mine. You're mediocre at best and probably suffering from some form of mental retardation.

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 03 2016, @08:20AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday December 03 2016, @08:20AM (#436457) Journal

          I see you're posting under your own name for once. I get that you've got some sort of deep seated psychological problems, but perhaps rather than projecting your own issues onto me,

          Umm, Who ARE you? Are you Francis? Do you know who you are? What is your street address? Who won the World Series in 2016? Ok, that last is not really a fair question. So tell me, what are these psychological issues that you see me projecting on to you? Tell me about your mother. Does your mother accept Pay-Pal? That would at least make this relevant to the topic at hand. But, mental, funny you should bring that up.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:24PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:24PM (#436646)

            I dunno, but you spend an awful lot of time posting bullshit and whining about other people posting bullshit.

            Perhaps at some point you might actually contribute something to the site other than trolling.