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  Supra | スープラ (@supurasensei) reported 5 minutes ago

  Just tried to help a friend get an Indian tourist visa and it was a proper nightmare. My friend is a Japanese national and has never had to apply for a visa for anywhere. The application form asks for all sorts of details, which was not too difficult to fill but in parts annoying. For example, it compulsorily asks for a person of contact in India and their address; how is a tourist who has never been to India supposed to have that? Luckily, I was able to provide a family member's details. But then it comes to the payment section (USD 25), the website only provides the following options: - SBI e-pay -PayPal -Axis Bank e-pay How on earth is someone supposed to know that choosing the e-pay options leads you to a page where you can pay by credit or debit card? Anyway, because I have helped people with this before, I advised her to choose the SBI e-pay option and she started entering her card details. Hit enter. Transaction failed. Strange, she said. It's a Visa and she's used it all over the world. Curiously, after a transaction fails, you still get a screen asking you to check transaction status but only AFTER 30 minutes. Going back simply brings you back to the same page. Kept getting an error. Tried two more times. Error. Tried another card. Another error. Exited and tried to get back to the payment screen from midway through the application and chose the Axis Bank gateway. Errors again on both cards. Another friend, from Hong Kong, volunteered to pay using her card. The first one received errors on both. Finally, on the eighth attempt, the friend's second card went through on the Axis Bank gateway. This entire process, that should have taken 15 minutes at most, ended up taking three hours. A foreigner with a genuine interest to visit the country, with tickets and accommodation booked already, needed multiple tries to book a simple e-visa, with four credit cards, all enabled for international use, that were declined regularly until one finally, randomly worked. If anyone in the Indian government is wondering why foreign tourism and Incredible India aren't exactly booming, they might want to consider this as a potential reason.

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  E.G. Martínez² (@Egm225) reported 8 minutes ago

  @RealWarnerus PayPal has been my main middleman for online purchases, & so far I haven't had any problems.

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  mielle CAYM ROUTE OUT (@caymkanojo) reported 9 minutes ago

  @arvanno1fan If it doesnt end up working u can paypal it to me directly without like .the vgen in between and ill write down your deadline on my sheet 😭😭 (but ill keep the vgen request in my vgen queue so i can check back your ref links)

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  ludoonchart (@ludoonchart) reported 9 minutes ago

  I found two Peter Thiel documents explaining how the PayPal and Palantir co-founder turned a $500,000 Facebook bet into more than $1 billion - while his latest 13F shows just 8 public stocks worth roughly $412 million inside, Thiel breaks down why the best investments often start with a truth the market doesn’t believe yet, why competition destroys returns, and why one exceptional company can matter more than an entire portfolio of average ones the second document traces the equity bets that actually built his fortune: PayPal gave him his first major liquidity event, Facebook became a roughly 2,000x documented cash return, and his disclosed beneficial Palantir stake later grew into billions of dollars in gross market value the interesting part is that none of them started as normal public-stock trades founder equity. one tiny angel check. concentrated ownership before the rest of the market could easily price what these companies might become bookmark this and read both documents below

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  Кобзар 🇨🇦🇺🇦☦️ (@CanadianKobzar) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Sharman2Pam @dzygaspaw I’m sorry… yes it’s very confusing. PayPal is off. But yes you can pay by visa. Make sure you put kobzar in the comments. Let me know if you have trouble and I can pay on your behalf.

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  Peniel (@Chancellorpen) reported 12 minutes ago

  @NthandaManduwi @phethani4 I've been reading an excellent book recently, How China escaped the Poverty trap, and people always hold them as the gold standard for institutional capacity and state led economic progress, but that wasn't true at all in the beginning, strong institutions aren't created by will, they need a country with economic development, the issue there is, they are codependent, more state capacity, better economic condition, and vice versa. And her main idea there is,. Don't see weak institutions as only a disadvantage, they are great for creating new markets, and those new markets create economic development, which improves state development. We see Africa's slow moving, and weak institutions and bureaucracy as a problem to solve and then we get progress, instead of seeing, maybe there's an opportunity somewhere in here. A good case in point would be, that Stripe and PayPal don't work in 90% if African countries, because they are so bureaucratic and slow moving, Stripe has to acquire fintechs already operating in Nigeria. But when a new technology comes along, like crypto, and there is no machinery to regulate it, weaker institutions don't have the capacity to regulate it and it operates in the grey areas. This is why although Binance for example got kicked out of Europe a lot of the time and had trouble in the US, strong institutions are actively very strong in maintaining the old way, and they brought hell to a new technology company like binance. While Binance just freely operates all over Africa, and only recently did only Nigeria crack down, while it's a great new technology that allows Africans to do a lot of things (like in my case be paid for doing international work). And this is precisely why I think Startups can be Africa's future, especially in probably technology(entirely now ways and cases of solving problems). And not globalization, which is just taking something that works on X place and taking it to another place, like Stripe and PayPal. And I'm sure there are many other cases of technology working in Africa (Zipline Drones, or the original M-pesa) with this mechanism. I firmly believe Africans have the talent

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  ☔Lyam | Vgen comis OPEN☔ (@xLyamart) reported 13 minutes ago

  @SammyPhox_ Hi! I had the same problem. Wait for PayPal to transfer the money, because if you transfer it "quickly" they charge an exorbitant fee.

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  @IN SLIME WE TRUST (@SlimeTrust) reported 17 minutes ago

  If YouTube gave 95/5 on ad revenue it be a ******* problem… kick or Twitch does this neither they do it on the donations whoopie send the dono to my damn PayPal anyways

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  なおみ (@CXPT4IN) reported 21 minutes ago

  Basically my og acc had issues with paypal when I first started out (they banned me and took my very first $35 screw them) and the current ones I use have zero issues since theyre verified and used regularly hence no holding of funds.

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 26 minutes ago

  Things I will admit I don't know that I should know But I will admit #FuckFinePrint But I've been told if there are options like sign in with Google or Apple or PayPal that you are supposed to just go with your email but But if your email is with Google ? Am "signing in with google,"?

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  sd (@sd_katsu) reported 28 minutes ago

  i finally figured out the stupid issue with paypal! they have 2 different address sections. your address on your account is not the same as your addresses on the express checkout page when you're buying something. i finally deleted the "preferred" address with my name backwards..

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  🌫💉Foggy🫀Rintarō's Heartbeat!💉🌫 (@LucidDeath_exe) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Suff0cationPit yes but the problem is my paypal balance is -160 in the negs bc i was overdrawing it to pay for food LMAO so anything just goes to that balance. i have venmo available or. my Throne for specific things

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  fallen | comms open (@fallxn_angxll_) reported 33 minutes ago

  Had some trouble giving a refund to a foreign client (I had just created a Paypal account), explained to him the situation and he asked me to make another art for the same price I owed him instead I sent the sketch and he never replied back 🥲🥲

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  Sameh Nassar (@siynrr) reported 33 minutes ago

  @jonathan_wilke Do you have any issue w PayPal gateway or your bank account?

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  JennieUI/UX Designer (@jenidesignns) reported 33 minutes ago

  If I just let go of this client because of the PayPal issue, is that okay? I opened a new account, and within a few seconds, it was permanently limited.