PAYPAL [was] [ANN] The reason why I was so quiet recently.

[Ben Rubinstein]

On 19/5/08 13:55, Petrides, M.D. Marian wrote:
> As a buyer, I have used PayPal only twice but have not gotten an undue 
> number of spam emails.  In general my method for dealing with spam is to 
> just go through my emails selecting anything that appears to be 
> uninteresting and deleting these messages. Takes but a second each time 
> and I tend to delete (unread) most of the messages in my inbox.  No biggie.
...
>> Hey Colin,
>>
>> > Well, I got to 2nd best score for the last 20 days during my trial
>> > play time, but sadly I can't buy it, as I've had bad spam experiences
>> > from using PayPal, and so won't use them anymore.

I've never signed up for PayPal (did try once, had a horrible time; my 
colleague also supposedly set one up for our company, couldn't make it work; 
admittedly this was from the UK, and a couple of years ago, and I think there 
were known issues about being outside the US which may have been sorted since 
then).

But I do get a ton of PayPal phishing spam (7-10/day that gets past my spam 
filters) and find it very convenient to know without looking that any message 
about my PayPal account is spam.  I think that's a positive reason to avoid 
setting up a PayPal account.

I do on occasion when I have no other choice use the facility to use a regular 
credit card to pay by paypal; but when it's a discretionary purchase, 
requirement for paypal is frequently a reason for my to choose not to buy.

- Ben