I have used PayPal for decades. I find it amusing that someone can declare it “dead” because PayPal has locked their account. If PayPal has locked your account there is a reason. Please confine your gripe to PayPal-support. Thank you.
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It’s crazy Americans don’t have etransfer
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We have western union and money gram but not very convenient. We also have Zelle but my understanding is e transfer doesn’t have any more protections than Zelle for the buyer so not really a better option than PayPal.
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Certified cashier’s checks sent insured mail
Gotta get a notary to certify the throw smooth first obviously
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I’ve been using paypal since it was invented with no issues. It is by far my favorite service for money transfer.
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I just buy Apple gift cards like all the unjustly and falsely labeled “suspected callers” tell me to get then read off the numbers over the phone for payment. 
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Back in my day, we had to buy Visa Gift Cards
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First off, I’m not disagreeing with anybody. I’m not saying or suggesting that anybody in this thread that chimed in to say they don’t like PayPal for whatever reason is wrong.
For anybody having trouble with PayPal, they know and feel the frustration better than anybody that’s not in their shoes
My reply is based on my personal experience over the years with PayPal.
I’ve been using PayPal so long that I almost feel like I forgot how starting to use it came about? So without sitting down with my iPad or MacBook and doing some kind of Internet search, I just sat down and stared at the wall and tried to remember back when I started using PayPal?
And then it came to me like a vision almost lol many years ago, when eBay was actually a site that mainly had auctions as seldom had fixed prices on items, I was always buying something related to cars or motorcycles. And a convenient way to pay for whatever items I won, I signed up And use the convenience of PayPal.
Many years later, I think because eBay and PayPal got so massive, that for one reason or another they divided and became separate entities. Even though when you buy items on eBay, you can still use PayPal to complete the transactions.
So basically, I’ve been using PayPal since there was a PayPal. Over the years I’ve done hundreds of eBay auctions. A few dozen times the items I won were located so close to my house. I would just drive to the seller pay cash and pick it up. But I would say lot of several hundred auctions. I only went to pick up an item maybe two dozen times?
All the other options were paid for using PayPal. To the best of my recollection they kind of screwed up two or three times out of several hundred different items.
I haven’t done any research to really try to figure out if there’s a better money moving service out there that I could use? But you know the old saying if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I would say at a very minimum I use PayPal, at least three times a week, every week of the year…
No doubt, there are problems popping up here and there
But considering PayPal handles 41 ‘Million’ transactions per day…… I think they have a pretty well oiled machine.
PayPal for me…
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i only recently got my paypal unlocked again after nearly 4 years locked because of a sale i made they thought it was knife related because the person i sold to wrote “damascus for knife” in the notes… i HATE paypal because of how they limit what youre allowed to buy with thier service unless you just keep your mouth shut. normally fine and dandy but either way i grew a strong dislike for them. they also LOVE thier fees constantly sneaking them in every chance they can. that being said when i do my normal business its zelle or cashapp, prefer zelle but im not super picky. i do still use my paypal for things like ebay or even the yye store itself but when it comes to money that runs my business ill never connect paypal to it again
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