PayPal woes
May. 31st, 2012 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingPayPal confuses the everliving daylights out of me.
I do not remember when I set up a PayPal account. I cannot make the site tell me this, either. You would think that would be basic information on my profile page, but no. That would make too much sense, and as we all know, websites are not allowed to make sense. *gnashes teeth*
I think, years and years ago, I set something up so I could make a micropayment and download a comic from Scott McCloud's website... but I have a vague memory that I was feeling paranoid about linking fandom and real life activities at the time and didn't want to associate the account with my first and last name any more than I strictly had to, and therefore might have set it up to link to my fandom email address rather than my real life email address. Which would explain the emails I started getting to my fandom address last year saying that my account had been limited and stuff, which I have been ignoring because I don't WANT any actual monetary business associated with that account anymore.
Except then I apparently made another account at some point. Or maybe just added my real life email address to the same screwy account? It was before I moved, in any case, since this particular account was linked to my previous apartment address until I changed that information today. I know I used the account to pay for my high school reunion in late 2010/early 2011. Also, Vicky sent money to it a while back, which I have used to buy a few things when PayPal was the default option.
But now that account wants proof of identity too.
(Unless it's all the same account. *headdesk* Hmmm. I should try logging in with my fandom email and see what that does, particularly since the "resolve this issue!" emails to that address want to send me to the UK PayPal site rather than the US one. *brief interval* Nope, that email does not go to the same account. I tried using it with my standard password, and no dice.)
Anyway, I'm sitting here saying, like hell am I going to scan my driver's license and send you a file of it. I told you my social security number today, you can confirm that with the IRS, and why do you even care anyway? Also, what the hell counts as proof of address or proof of social security number? Like, a scanned copy of a credit card bill? My social security card? I don't even know where my social security card is. I am pretty sure I lost it years ago, and before that it was held together with scotch tape and had a note scribbled on it in pen, which I have heard rumors makes it invalid or something? (Federal documents, how do they even work???)
...
I dunno, it just all seems very intrusive to me. And yet, I would like to have a functioning account that I can add money to, if only because PayPal has become the default payment option and it's annoying to have to say, no, really, I am going to pay by credit card stop popping up all these PayPal thingies and just take my money already.
I do not remember when I set up a PayPal account. I cannot make the site tell me this, either. You would think that would be basic information on my profile page, but no. That would make too much sense, and as we all know, websites are not allowed to make sense. *gnashes teeth*
I think, years and years ago, I set something up so I could make a micropayment and download a comic from Scott McCloud's website... but I have a vague memory that I was feeling paranoid about linking fandom and real life activities at the time and didn't want to associate the account with my first and last name any more than I strictly had to, and therefore might have set it up to link to my fandom email address rather than my real life email address. Which would explain the emails I started getting to my fandom address last year saying that my account had been limited and stuff, which I have been ignoring because I don't WANT any actual monetary business associated with that account anymore.
Except then I apparently made another account at some point. Or maybe just added my real life email address to the same screwy account? It was before I moved, in any case, since this particular account was linked to my previous apartment address until I changed that information today. I know I used the account to pay for my high school reunion in late 2010/early 2011. Also, Vicky sent money to it a while back, which I have used to buy a few things when PayPal was the default option.
But now that account wants proof of identity too.
(Unless it's all the same account. *headdesk* Hmmm. I should try logging in with my fandom email and see what that does, particularly since the "resolve this issue!" emails to that address want to send me to the UK PayPal site rather than the US one. *brief interval* Nope, that email does not go to the same account. I tried using it with my standard password, and no dice.)
Anyway, I'm sitting here saying, like hell am I going to scan my driver's license and send you a file of it. I told you my social security number today, you can confirm that with the IRS, and why do you even care anyway? Also, what the hell counts as proof of address or proof of social security number? Like, a scanned copy of a credit card bill? My social security card? I don't even know where my social security card is. I am pretty sure I lost it years ago, and before that it was held together with scotch tape and had a note scribbled on it in pen, which I have heard rumors makes it invalid or something? (Federal documents, how do they even work???)
...
I dunno, it just all seems very intrusive to me. And yet, I would like to have a functioning account that I can add money to, if only because PayPal has become the default payment option and it's annoying to have to say, no, really, I am going to pay by credit card stop popping up all these PayPal thingies and just take my money already.
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Date: 2012-06-01 12:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-06-01 01:24 am (UTC)