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GG2141
A cash free future with those percentage happy internet pirates at the helm?? No thanks.
Andre Asbury
Oh nooooo
wanderlust
It might work in the USA, but it has too many restrictions for international transactions. A single case of identity theft has the potential to lose you a lot of money.
gaijinfo
Right off the bat I see a few things wrong with this.
1) it allows the government to monitor and track ALL purchases. No thanks. There's some things I wanna buy that I don't want nobody finding out about.
2) it excludes those without tablets, iphones or access to the Internet.
3) It FORCES you to carry some kind of trackable device with you AT ALL TIMES. I'd rather carry some hidden bills and worry about getting mugged than having a goddamn NSA satellite tracking my every step.
No thank you.
The GOOD news is that if all I've got is a sack of silver coins, I doubt anybody'd have a problem taking them in exchange for whatever goods and services they're providing.
Thunderbird2
I use Pay Pal for a lot of my online purchases.... I can buy from mail order firms in Japan as well as Europe and the UK. One click, password and that's it... I use online protection so I feel pretty safe with Pay Pal. Unlike when I use my credit card, when I have to enter such a lot of information.
wtfjapan
imagine a cash free future? where all your online payments can be viewed by governments and hackers. theyll know what you buy when you buy it and where you are evertime you buy something. privacy will be a thing of the past.
TigersTokyoDome
Interesting. My post about this company's charges and it's deal with a very well-known auction site was deleted by Japan Today. Any vested interests between Japan Today and that auction site Mr Editor..?
Moderator: No.
TigersTokyoDome
Oh yes. Free speech on Japan Today. You are free to critique articles promoting huge money-making corporations. As long as you don't say anything about this particular company.
Thunderbird2
@wtfjapan Every time you buy something online it triggers some kind of software that tracks you and customises adverts based on your purchases which can be seen on some sites you visit... such as JT.
My credit card has been hacked three times in the last 5 years - my PP account, never.
some14some
No to cash-free purchases because no fun...Cash-&-Carry makes you feel so good !
kitzrow
I had nothing but trouble with Pay Pal, so I will NEVER use it again!
gelendestrasse
Way back in the day Xerox thought they were going to create the paperless office. How's that working for you?
scoobydoo
Pay pal is worse than any tax the Govt has ever put on people. With their exorbitant fees, lack of accountability to banking laws and the ability to take back funds in your account at a whim with no regard to those banking laws I can see why they are so keen to have a pay pal society. Bottom line is that convenience is very expensive and companies like pay pal have learned to take the biggest advantage from it.
JeanValJean
No, thank you. The reasons @gaijinfo gave should be a wake-up call to the zombies . PP is part of the surveillance system.
Scrote
Pay Pal blocks payments to those it deems guilty of infringement of intellectual property and there is no recourse. It also blocks payments to the likes of Wiki leaks and others to whom the US government takes a dislike.
Scrote
What we need is an independent payment organisation that cannot be controlled by any government. Pay Pal is certainly not it.
Emily Crawford-Margison
dreaming of a resource-based economy...and the death of the fractional reserve banking system...