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  Haalover (@Haalove1981) reported 3 minutes ago

  Help! I got paypal error: how do I fix it, it worked 2 hours ago! PayPal failed to process this transaction with the following error: Transaction cannot be processed due to a possible compliance violation. Please contact PayPal customer support for assistance.

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  BEAST ⭐️ NASTY (@BeastNastyCallz) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PayPal You have been processing my LTC you received for over an hour now Congratulations..... I will never use PayPal for crypto again (Maybe PYUSD,.. but geezuss... ya'll have issues)

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  AmicuNoa🧜‍♀️🌊 Vtuber | Emote Comms OPEN (@AmicuNoa) reported 6 minutes ago

  @zachbussey Streamlabs doesn't have a safe payment for tipping. It's Paypal ONLY. And making a business paypal doesn't always work as over the 11 years I've streamed, every time I tried setting it up it still released your private information. Losing SEPay would be a MAJOR loss. I'm suspicious it's true they are going down because they have ignored 7 separate emails from shorting me on a sponsorship.

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  The Dude 🧲 (@TheDudeofDeFi) reported 7 minutes ago

  @base Every UI you’ve released thus far is pretty bad. Base app is terrible. Think PayPal, Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle etc. Simplicity leads to adoption.

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  Ian_Guppy (@Gupster81) reported 9 minutes ago

  @axs - woeful service. Getting tickets confirmed for the @TheO2 via Priority- all the way to payment and 4 differing cards and Paypal all "fail" due to technical errors. Now the 10 mins are up and shock - tickets gone!!!

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  𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖔𝖋𝖘𝖆𝖘𝖘 (@King0fsass) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Devmicsi I know it may not be acceptable but would you ever be okay if i pay with it with robux cause i sometimes cant use paypal due to issues my mom has had with it 🥹 i can message you on my alt if you like👉👈

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  @PokeCorsair (@PokeCorsair329) reported 10 minutes ago

  @KieranH79849146 @potofgreedd The seller said they would give me 9% bc i can pay someone to fix it not true at all I got quotes everyone said not guaranteed to be fixable. Paypal gave me 0 options just denied bc its a trading card they dont handle that anymore i was told

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 14 minutes ago

  You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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  zMakotaz | Twitch Partner! | 🐼👾 Panda VTuber (@zMakotaz) reported 15 minutes ago

  It is starting to get frustrating that its been about almost half a year since you guys have yet to pay me. Please if you could resolve this issue that would be great I have done all what was asked of me to try to fix it on my end. Paypal say nothing is wrong on there end so

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  M (@ml721721) reported 16 minutes ago

  @KeithMalinak I used to sell a lot on eBay until most of the buyers started saying the item arrived broken (which it wasn't it was a picture of their broken item) and eBay sided with the buyers. So the sellers were out the item, eBay & PayPal fees, shipping etc and left frustrated 🙄

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  yaamc01 (@yonahaer1) reported 17 minutes ago

  Minor spelling mistake on pic but who cares Btw I cant accept requset from Vgen now due to problem with paypal

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  ♱⃓˚₊‧꒰ა cierra​ 👁️🪶|| healing arc ໒꒱ ‧₊˚​♱⃓ (@CierraTenshi) reported 18 minutes ago

  @sawy0s @PayPal There were times that they were but this time, I was just getting shut down everytime💔

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  Kiyr (@Kiyreth) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SOU_BTC This is the shift from chat to execution. Claude for Small Business plugs directly into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Google Workspace. Payroll. Invoicing. Monthly close. Ad creation. Automated. But the adoption question is harder than the technology question. A small business owner isn’t an IT department. Someone still has to connect the integrations, configure the workflows, and trust the output. And AI still makes mistakes on ambiguous tasks - a misread invoice or a wrongly categorized expense isn’t a minor bug when it’s your balance sheet. The enterprise layer solved this with dedicated implementation teams. The SMB layer doesn’t have that luxury. And there’s a harder constraint underneath the implementation problem. AI can prepare the payroll. It cannot certify it. AI can draft the invoice. It cannot legally sign it. In most jurisdictions, financial documents, tax filings, and audit reports require a certified human signature - a professional who engages their legal liability. Claude can do 80% of the work. The last 20% - the part that counts legally - still needs a human with credentials and accountability. Until AI has legal standing to certify, it’s a very powerful assistant. Not a replacement. How long before regulation catches up to the technology - and should it?

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  PetiteNativee (@PetiteNativee) reported 18 minutes ago

  Who's down to paypal me for some ***?

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  Hamilton (@Debt_Ledger) reported 20 minutes ago

  Claude inside QuickBooks and PayPal is more interesting than another chatbot launch. The real leverage is the back office: invoicing, payroll, bookkeeping, compliance. Cut friction there and you cut delays, errors, and waste. That’s state capacity by software.