Also paypal recently closed down the wikileaks account. It depends on how you feel about Wikileaks, but this was a political act, so I dont want to use them anymore. Are there no alternative online payment systems?
dave On 7 January 2011 10:32, helen varley jamieson <[email protected]> wrote: > what real alternatives are there to paypal? i feel that there MUST be > alternatives but i don't know of any ... > > i've been trying to close my paypal account for some time (i opened it > when i was living in australia so it is tied to an australian bank > account that i have since closed; when i try to log in it wants me to > enter the account number as a "security measure" but having moved > countries a couple of times since then i don't have the number ... so > i've been in a stupid circular discussion with paypal asking them to > please just close the account, they insist that i must log in ... they > took off the "security measure" but it still required me to update > things like my address before i can actually close the account, which i > see no reason to do when i just want to close the f*&cking account ... > argh!!!!!) > > which reminds me of the green dollars discussion that happened a while > back - maybe we need to set up a transnational green dollar system? > > h : ) > >> 2. By what mechanism are you going to take the donations? Is there some >> less-capitalist but equally-useful alternative to PayPal? I've just >> added PayPal to my own site, but not without a qualm. > ____________________________________________________________ > > helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst > [email protected] > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.avatarbodycollision.org > http://www.upstage.org.nz > ____________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
