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  Littlewing (@sar62863) reported 3 minutes ago

  @ValerieAnne1970 They ALL came out of DARPA. Every damn one of them. Staring with PayPal where 24 yr old Musk was inserted as CEO. He said his seed money came from a program for newspapers to track deliveries. Problem was they already had that themselves. It's all built on deception and lies and still is today.

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  Ami-lazar VTuber {FORMER VA} (@Ami_LazarVA) reported 3 minutes ago

  okay i wanted to give send my manager (had to make a new account) money on paypal but even though hes in brazil i still cant after waiting 2 days and needed to used a credit card instead of adding a debit and gets his support request taken down? really @PayPal ? fix this.

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  JoMama (@JoMamaHoeppner) reported 3 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Your AI Assistant is worthless. How about providing a phone number for a real person that has the ability to understand the issue?

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  Sharkbyte (@sharkbyte1k) reported 4 minutes ago

  Because original article is down. summary: 1. 2014 Icahn pushes for separation of paypal from ebay 2014. Board rejects, later settles proxy fight, spins off paypal. 2. 2019 Elliot/Starboard pushes for spinoff of stubhub/classifieds. ebay resisted, later sells both, CEO departs.

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  Elizabeth Farrell (@ElizabethF6116) reported 8 minutes ago

  Aah the same bloody sandals Snowy.. Demanded my money back but got nowhere..wrote a review..Bloody Rubbish.. I used PayPal for 8 years..no problem They got taken over a few years ago.. My account got hacked..so I do not use it now.. Fraud Squad was on the ball..so lost no money Thank you Snowy

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  ♣️🩸REN ( GOD) ♣️🩸 (@JackRenGod) reported 10 minutes ago

  Hey @AskPayPal When is the issue regarding people not being able to add their credit cards going to be fixed? It’s been 2 months for me and I still can’t add my card

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  ChaDraws 🐇💮 VGen 2D artist (@ChaDraws_Art) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Toast6634 Oh I had a very fast similar talk with Leaflit about this I prefer saying first that I'm against AI, because I think most people are using it so badly they're actively dumbing themselves, and now, young people coming out of high school don't even know how to write 'cause they've trusted their entire lives with ChatGPT or whatever, making them genuinely low IQ, and I say this in the nicest way possible, but they are very, very difficult to interact with. And you might think I'm only talking about text prompts, but visually creativity is a skill and a form of intelligence that is very very heavily underestimated, and that is factually helpful in real life... These young people can't even concentrate on one task for more than a minute, it's alarming But as we say, hate the game, not the player, if someone used AI as a reference and still choses to work with an artist after, I think they should be treated like any other commissioners, because they still chose to come to you ! It's always an honor when people think of me for their characters Though I do understand the fear of being scammed (I'm not sure if it's known outside, but there are a lot of scammers that ask an artist for a comm, take the sketch, don't pay (cause generally artists allow not paying until the sketch) and run it through AI to have a "better result") (there are also bot commissioners, that uses AI made characters to scam artists by executing a chargeback on PayPal) , so I understand if people don't want to go through this and refuse the commission Though I will say, as an artist, you have to stay professional if you want to make money out of it, making it public is in my opinion lacking maturity and professionalism Either way I think Pro AI people and Anti AI people should make love and bring peace to the world right now cause we have bigger issues at hand

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  🪻 HarineChuu•COMMS OPEN🪻 (@HarineChuu) reported 10 minutes ago

  Update on my Paypal issue, I won at the legal hearing and got the person's mom to pay the negative balance, I am still trying to communicate with ppal customer service, my account got limitations and I cant pay using my bank T.T

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  💜SpazzBhabie💜 (@SpazzBhabie) reported 12 minutes ago

  @k_ovfefe2 I can’t wait until it opens up for me to get it. I’ve had so many problems with my PayPal getting hacked before so trying @XMoney will be good to try

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  Carl Weische (@CarlWeische) reported 15 minutes ago

  You're currently losing 70-75% of purchases to abandoned carts (70-75% is the avg in ecom) & taking that rate down to 65% or even 60% is something you can do in literally a few hours. So here's every reason people leave the cart & how you can fix it: 1. 48% leave because of surprise costs This is by far the biggest one. They get to the payment step with their card in their hand, & suddenly there's $20 shipping or some handling fee they didn’t see coming. So communicate every cost (shipping, handling, taxes) on the PDP & in the cart, before they hit the checkout. Something like "free shipping over $50, taxes included" right next to the price. Same deal with delivery times. If you're dropshipping & delivery takes 5-10 days, do NOT save that for the end of the buyer journey. Say on the product page that you dispatch within 1-2 days (which is true), so the shipping time isn't a nasty surprise when they're about to pay. 2. 25% leave because you made them create an account I straight up don't buy from stores that force me to register, & apparently neither does a quarter of your lost traffic. So have guest checkout, always. & remove that pre-ticked newsletter box as well, that one makes people drop off too. 3. & a big chunk leave because they don't trust you, or can't pay the way they want to pay So put your payment logos (PayPal, Klarna, Amex, Visa, whatever you take) on the PDP, in the cart, AND inside the checkout itself, basically just put it everywhere. & answer all the questions that could be running through their head at checkout, like: - what happens if I don't like it? - is sending it back gonna cost me? - when does it show up? 4. Then a few smaller things that make a big difference when you add them up - Hide your discount code field behind a "more options" dropdown. An empty coupon box in front of someone with no coupon is basically an invitation to go google "[your brand] discount code", & a lot of them never come back - Use ONE name field instead of first + last (people type their full name into the first box, get an error, & get annoyed) - Give them a progress bar (address → shipping → payment) with little green checkmarks as they fill each field in. Gamifying the checkout like this is a very simple way to dopamine hack some incentive into it - Then try to avoid all pre-purchase upsells. It's just unnecessary friction when you can upsell them post-purchase (which has higher take rate as well) 5. Final (but very important) note Everything I’ve gone through here are points of friction & anxiety. But there’s another part to this as well: Motivation. & increasing the motivation people have to get your product is by far the most impactful way to increase CVR. This is done through good pre-sell conversion (good pre-sell & product pages), so I’m gonna link a few articles in the comments under this post on how to increase motivation if you want to really understand this & thereby make a **** ton more money. Now, you of course can't get abandoned carts to 0% since a large portion of them are just people looking around & saving products, but you can decrease it significantly. If you implement all of this I guarantee you will see a very significant decrease in abandoned carts & a big increase CVR & in profit per visitor. Avoidable abandoned carts are very expensive in the grand scheme of things.

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 24 minutes ago

  @pokemondealsuk Did you ever manage to find a fix for the red banner error on PKC when trying to pay? Even now when trying to buy the Mew binder I’m having the issue, even when trying to use PayPal

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  Adam Cooper (@AJ_Cooper95) reported 26 minutes ago

  @YouWhat112 @pokemondealsuk Yep still won’t let me order even normal things. Even PayPal brings up the error. Quite possibly the worst time for this to happen as I think it’ll mean we miss every 30th drop until something happens. 😔

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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 27 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  44🎐’ (@JS44UTD_) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Cian_UTD @Theirishladdd no worries mate this is fine just use your PIP and monthly payments of 1543 to fix this since you don’t need paypal anymore👊

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  Vin @ Vintuitive ⚡🌐 (@Vintuitive) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Gold_Phishy @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned His bank, NatWest, told him that it is blocking payments to PayPal accounts for his protection. He has used the same account for years to pay me via PayPal without any problems, until now.