I agree that entering in somebody else's credit card info on one's own
computer is not a good idea. But if the person has access to a computer and
an email account, he should be able to send the money without a Paypal
account of his own, unless things have changed in the admittedly long time
since I used Paypal to receive money.
Did they change the request payment function? I used to use that sometimes
when selling things online. The person would get an email from Paypal with
the request for payment and then could click on a link that would take them
to something very much like the checkout page of an online store, a secure
checkout page at that. Since all of the fees in such a transaction are
charged to the payment recipient, it was very simple for the person sending
money. All they needed was access to a computer somewhere that they are
comfortable entering in their debit or credit card information. They do not
need to be an expert user, the process was very simple and was quite
accessible. Again, this is all if Paypal hasn't removed or changed this
feature, but since many banks now allow account holders to send and receive
money to anybody with an email address regardless of whether or not they use
the same bank, I don't think Paypal would want to lose the transaction fees
they get from this feature just to encourage people to set up their own
accounts.
Of course, if the buyer has never bought anything online and isn't
comfortable with sending money this way or if he does not have access to a
computer somewhere that he is comfortable entering in his information, I
would say the check by mail is the best solution. entering in somebody's
info, most particularly to transfer a payment to oneself is just too much of
a potential minefield. It is unlikely anything would go wrong, but if
something does, it could get really, really bad.
Regards,
chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Duyahn Walker
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 11:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: paypal question
Have the person in question send a check in the mail. Yes, it's a bit slower
but, things will not get hacked in the process and, it keeps the
relationship on a business level.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh" <[email protected]>
To: "gwmicro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: paypal question
what I am trying to do is this. I have a friend who is not very good with
computers. He wants to buy a laptop from me. And he wants to send me money
through pay pal if possible. But he uses pay pal so infrequently it would
not be worth him having or getting a pay pal account. He wants me to use
my computer to enter his credit card info to transfer the money into my
account for the purchase of the laptop. He just uses his computer for
getting nls bard books radio email and looking stuff up on wikipedia every
now and then. Is there any way he can get money into my pay pal account
without having an account of his own? If we can't work something out he
said he can just send me a check in the mail.
Josh
using windows7 laptop
On 5/10/2014 11:20 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
Hey Josh.
This is somewhat of a gray area. It really honestly depends on the
merchant. As a seller, you have the option to allow perspective buyers
to enter their credit card information. Obviously, the seller never sees
that information, just as they never ever ever see the buyer's bank
account information. It's done very securely either way you look at it.
As for the way that you go about enterring your card info, this will vary
from seller to seller, but generally speaking, the concept is basically
the same if they give you the option... Essentially, there should be a
form somewhere on their checkout page where you can either A. Enter your
card info, or B. Login/create a PayPal account.
Quite honestly Josh, I'd personally go ahead and create an account, then
tie either a debit/credit card to it, or tie a checking/savings account
to your PayPal account to be used as a funding source. It's incredibly
easy to do.
You know what? You just gave me a really awesome idea! I should do a
webinar training session on the use with PayPal with a screen reader.
That's not a half bad idea, actually.
Anyway, I hope this at least helps to a point.
Feel free to give me a call later today if you get stuck.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh" <[email protected]>
To: "gwmicro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 11:03 AM
Subject: paypal question
hi, do you need a pay-pal account to send money to people? can you send
it with just a credit card and no account, if so how? I can't figure it
out.
thanks
Josh
--
using windows7 laptop
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