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Paypal Issues Reports

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  Andrew **** (@AndrewC25036828) reported 4 minutes ago

  @HolySmokas Listen …. Bro, stop with the name calling.. tattoo chef PayPal Oatley milk or something. I remember your calls too calm down son.

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  🍌 DRALE (@DraleZero) reported 5 minutes ago

  @diandelion22 @Nishii_7 I have put my twitch name on my business paypal and it works, but I stopped because I legally can't and don't want tax issues. If i change it, paypal wants business documents proof linking my name.

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  Salt Mine Ranch ⚙️🛠️ (@SaltMineRanch) reported 6 minutes ago

  Why does X Money pay out so much at 6% APY? It's not a scam but it is bait. Cross River Bank makes its money the usual way and their profit margin is like 5% they can't sustain that + other payouts like 3% cashback. Instead, X Payments LLC which offers the X Money fintech product, is subsidizing the rate. While that's a lot of money, the CAC (customer acquisition cost) is far lower than what other neobank and fintech costs are because they have the X ecosystem behind building the userbase. 6% won't last but it's nice incentive for moving money. Why use it? While I have huge issues with the safety of having an account tied to your X account that can be canceled any time Nikita gets hangry, and I think it creates a stressful conflict of interest for creators "toe the moving line or else". as a tool for driving economic growth on X it has value and still seems better than letting PayPal or someone take your money. Transactions between users are instantaneous and single-bank and only handles are disclosed, it's in-app integrated, high FDIC coverage of $10M versus normal $250k, global free ATM use (reimbursed), early DD, no foreign transaction fees, and the card itself is physically secure with no printed numbers, no raised numbers, no cvv on the back, no magstripe, just your name and encrypted comms via chip/RFID. You can access that info or use a virtual credit card number/cvv/exp at any time by generating it in the app. Why not use it? X gets mad you said a hurty word, closes your account, and mails you the balance... Soft blackmail, do what they want you to do or lose your access. Outside of X, no payment processing available like a virtual POS or shopping cart and chargeback/fraud protection for sellers. For X users who want to conduct transactions on the platform it's a solid choice of methods that avoid creating some platform crypto token or other risky system and it avoids the regulatory/taxation uncertainty and exchange problems of crypto while still providing some anonymity and the means to conduct transfers. The question of whether you want one is purely personal. Do you want a cool stainless steel card with no built-in stupid? Do you think you might like to shuffle money around on X? If you're already a subscriber then that incentive money is your money, why not get some of it back as payment for giving their startup a chance? I've received 10% of my subscription fee back in 'rewards' already and haven't even used the card yet so it's not like it cost me anything to try it out but I won't be storing cash on it since I can literally be banned for no reason by mass report abuse or something I'll never trust it.

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  Vicky Shettykind (@VShettykind) reported 6 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal @AskPayPal please help with my issue. The above link does not help.

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  RINE 🧡💙✈️ SEMI IA ❤️‍🩹 (@calebgirl1306) reported 10 minutes ago

  @navvyia UID: 81001217079 Server: Asia Game: LnDs Can I exchange to PayPal if I lucky? Tysm for GA 🩷

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  Prafull Billore (@_prafullbillore) reported 16 minutes ago

  The money system you use every day is getting rebuilt, and the biggest players are leading it. Last year, $33 trillion moved on blockchains through stablecoins — more than Visa and Mastercard combined. That’s not a theory anymore. It’s happening. Stripe bought a stablecoin company for $1 billion and built its own blockchain, Tempo, with Visa validating on it. Mastercard is acquiring BVNK. PayPal already issues PYUSD, and Circle went public at a $33 billion valuation. Think of it like WhatsApp for money. Traditional payments pass through four or five banks, take two days to settle, and charge fees at every step. Stablecoins use the internet instead, making transfers faster and cheaper. The rails underneath global commerce are changing right now. Your bank won’t tell you because it doesn’t benefit them. But the shift is already underway.

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  The Yorkshire Pud (@NotAuntBessies) reported 18 minutes ago

  @shapermint hello , today around £5 was taken from my bank account by shapermint . I've had to cancel a direct PayPal payments thing that was set up without my permission. I URGE the company investigate this issue and wonder how many people this is happening too .

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  🎄Stupid Short-stack Kat😼 (@_ThatOneDumbCat) reported 20 minutes ago

  If anyone knows him, please let me know, I paid for that comm and it’s been so long.. my old PayPal account got banned so I can’t issue refunds anymore.. That was my birthday money too bro😔

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  Billings (@BillingsCat) reported 20 minutes ago

  @SoniaSikka42 @shabanamir1 It used to work as of June, but I know many in Gaza are having issues with PayPal. @Sulalasociety please update the bio for donation method when you can. Thank you

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  ここね (@KokoneTsuku) reported 21 minutes ago

  i just, find myself in a position where I could give everything up atp Got a refund on paypal not an issue tho but I worry that if I reactivate theyll think Im going back bc of that so Im back to being anxious from comming back

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  Oblivion (@Oblivion_OnX) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Enurfase Paypal is probably 4 steps from clicking the donation to sending the money, I don't think it's that difficult. Has to be a user error or something

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  36CIA(💕紫游） (@36_cia7) reported 23 minutes ago

  @TbirdTmoney @PenguinX01 Social media will issue the digital coin , how much time you spent on how much coin you will receive. The coin will be back by gold , you can redeem them with gold, you can buy anything with it too . this social media must with its own payment , not rely on swift or PayPal strip

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  Jungleball2 (@JungleBall_2) reported 24 minutes ago

  South Carolina, Angela T. Kohl, the 55-year-old Georgetown woman who served as the trusted executive director, sole paid staffer, and bookkeeper of Kids’ Chance of South Carolina, is accused of systematically looting more than $118,000 from a charity whose entire purpose is putting kids through college or trade school after their parents were killed or permanently disabled on the job. Investigators say that over an 18-month stretch she made dozens of transfers from the nonprofit’s accounts straight into her personal PayPal while working from home. When the board finally noticed the missing money and confronted her, she claimed she knew nothing about it. A few weeks later she resigned, citing vague “health reasons.” Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver’s office then audited the books, found the trail of transfers, and arrested her Friday on charges of breach of trust with fraudulent intent (over $10,000) and first-degree computer crime. This is not some abstract accounting dispute. Kids’ Chance of South Carolina exists to help children who already lost a parent to a workplace tragedy. Donors, lawyers, insurance carriers, employers, ordinary people, gave money specifically so those kids could go to school. Kohl, the person they trusted to manage those funds, is alleged to have treated the account like her personal ATM. If the allegations hold, this is one of the colder betrayals imaginable, pocketing scholarship money meant for orphans and half-orphans of dead and broken workers, then feigning ignorance and walking away citing “health.” There is no softer way to say it.

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  𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑎 ౨ৎ (@shortsweetdoll) reported 28 minutes ago

  @AvantiWestCoast everything is finally working now apart from the payment. it keeps saying payment failed, apple pay and paypal won’t work on my phone. when i try on my laptop it says “payment completed, getting things ready” then just says timeout, an error occurred.

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  Mariya Valeva (@mariyav4leva) reported 29 minutes ago

  How to validate your idea with $0: 1. Find 10 strangers with the exact problem. Reddit, LinkedIn, Slack groups, X. Not friends. Strangers have no reason to be polite. 2. Ask what they're currently doing to solve it. If the answer is nothing, the problem isn't painful enough. 3. Ask what it's costing them. If they can't quantify it fast, the pain isn't real enough to build on. 4. Offer to solve it manually before you build anything. Spreadsheet, Notion, Zoom. If they say yes, you have a customer. If they say "I'll wait for the product," you have nothing yet. 5. Ask for $50 upfront toward the eventual product. Stripe link, PayPal, whatever. If they won't commit even that, the problem isn't painful enough. 6. Do it 10 more times. One is a coincidence. Three is a pattern. Ten is something to build on. The goal isn't to prove you're right. It's to find out where you're wrong before you've wasted six months.