Rain comments on The Last Days of the Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2010 03:46AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 27 February 2010 08:50:48AM *  14 points [-]

Donated $1450 to the General Fund -- but man, do I hate the damn PayPal. They overcharged me $3 for three failed payment attempts and $60 for some unknown reason, so now I have to deal with their customer support (I hope it isn't outsourced to Bangalore.)

Comment author: Rain 27 February 2010 03:10:13PM 2 points [-]

The problem I ran into with PayPal is that they required me to link my bank account directly to their service once I had reached a threshold dollar amount of usage (somewhere around $5000), rather than allowing me to leave just my credit card attached. This made me particularly nervous, as I have heard quite often of strange fees being applied with no recourse. If they only have access to my credit card, I would have more protection.