Paypal in South Africa

[Dave A]

Dave - nope it was for $42

Maybe they dropped the threshold - I set up my Paypal account and went through this about 2005, and a lot has happened since then.

I know there was a phase where I was genuinely concerned about having a Paypal account at all - probably about 3 or so years ago - when there were lots of problems with fraudulant use of Paypal accounts/unverified credit card accounts. I know Paypal really was forced to tighten up on how they did things as a result.

[Dave A]

Just been reading the home page of that Paypalsucks website you linked to. Kinda reminded me about the indignation against retraints of trade here.

There seems to be something in the SA mentality - control & domination - that introduce these clauses into agreements, in the first place. Their basis is clearly unethical, except in a narrow range of circumstances.

From my extensive travels abroad, I find this kind of activity to be offensive, to say the very least. I have not seen it to be the norm in other countries. Generally the societal norms & ethics prevail.

Did you know that Paypal was started by an (ex) South African?