How the bloody fuck do I change the destination email on PayPal??!!!!!

[CanuckAmok]

On EfuckingBay, I want to change the email destination that buyers see when they want to pay me via PayPal.

[GirlinContempt]

1. *sigh*

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help-ext&eloc=528&loc=526&unique_id=81&source_page=_home&flow=

[CanuckAmok]

4. Save your sighs, lady.

I DID that, but the problem is this:

When buyers click on the pay via paypal option, their payment is sent to my alternate email address. Let's say it's "[e-mail]".

My primary email address, where I want the money to go, is, let's say "[e-mail]"

I can log onto my bloody fucking PayPal account with no bloody fucking problem, but when I go to the preferences section you so bloody fucking kindly assumed I was too adlepated to find, mybloodyfuckingself, it tells me that my bloody fucking password to enter that section is incorrect, and would I kindly bloody fucking change it.

Here's the kicker:

THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY TO CHANGE THAT PASSWORD UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE PREFERENCES SECTION AND YOU CAN'T GET INTO BLOODY FUCKING THE PREFERENCES SECTION WITHOUT THE PASSWORD. THANK YOU, JOSEPH HELLER!!

And that creates yet another problem....

So I said "what the bloody fucking hell, I'll just create a new PayPal account with the [e-mail] address, and bloody fucking transfer the money to my primary bloody fucking paypal account." Simple, non?

Non.

I can't transfer money out of the [e-mail] account because I wasn't verified. Unless one is verified, one's transfer limit is "$0.00".

How to get verified? It's bloody fucking easy!

All one has to do is enter one's bloody fucking credit card info on the verification screen, and ala-bloody fucking-kazam, one is verified.

UN-BLOODY FUCKING-LESS one has already used one's credit card to verify his primary account. If one has done that, one is fucked with a sharpened broom handle, because my "pal" at bloody bloody fucking fucking Paypal doesn't accept the same credit card info on more than one account.

So, the long and the short of it is this:

I have $50 in a PayPal account, and I may never be able to get to it. Furthermore, I have about 40 items up for bloody fucking auction at the moment, and the only way I can ensure the winner of each item sends the payment to [e-mail] is by contacting them as soon as possible after the bloody fucking auction ends, instructing bloody fucking them to send the payment to [e-mail], NOT [e-mail] and hope they check their email before sending the payment.

So, in a nutshell, what the fuck?


Footnote: Hey NSA/DHS/CIA guys who are no doubt reading this email, you can stop looking for Al Qaeda money being laundered through PayPal, because it's TOO FUCKING COMPLICATED FOR ANYONE WITHOUT AN M.I.T. MATHEMATICS DEGREE TO RUN MONEY THROUGH BLOODY FUCKING PAYPAL. IT WOULD BE EASIER TO ORGANISE A MANNED MISSION TO PLUTO, HAVE THE ASTRONAUTS SET UP A PLUTONIAN CHAIN OF CREDIT UNIONS WHICH EXPLOIT PLUTO'S FAMOUSLY SECRETIVE AND LAX BANKING BLOODY FUCKING LAWS, THEN ARRANGE FOR BLOODY FUCKING OSAMA BIN LADEN TO RIDE A BLOODY FUCKING UNICYCLE TO PLUTO TO MAKE SOME DEPOSITS, THEN HAVING A SUICIDE BOMBER TO-BE SKATE TO PLUTO ON A PAIR OF MAGIC BLOODY FUCKING ROLLERBLADES TO WITHDRAW THE FUNDS. Try looking inside some bloody fucking camels, instead. What's with the humps--don't they look like they're hiding something (like perhaps a big bag of hundred dollar bills) in there? FUCK, FELLAS, DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A DIAGRAM?

on edit: You should see the veins in my bloody fucking neck right about now.

[GirlinContempt]

5. I was being facetious, doll

Couldn't you maybe just 'pay' yourself from one paypal account? If you set up a second you can change your payment info on the auction site, and pay from shitaccount to goodaccount to get the $50 over?

I don't know, I'm not verified and I can pay people, and transfer up to $900CAD

[CanuckAmok]

6. Can't I just smash my laptop to pieces with a big hammer?

I think that's the solution.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Can't you just

buy something you want from that paypal account and pretend the money never happened?

[CanuckAmok]

11. *You're* tomorrow night's dinner.

...

[GirlinContempt]

13. Rawr

or ouch




I'm unsure which. :P

[CanuckAmok]

16. "Rawr"? Is that all you have to say about my offer for squelching?

Name that tune...

[GirlinContempt]

17. Barbra?

Is that you?

[CanuckAmok]

19. Close... it's a "Babs", but not that one.

oh, you'd score so-o-o many points if you knew the answer...

[GirlinContempt]

20. It's not Silvie & Babs Hi fi..., is it?

This is ringing a vauge bell, no?

[crispini]

7. Get another credit card.

Everyone should have a spare, anyway, in case you lose one & have to close it.

[CanuckAmok]

8. Hmmmmm.....

Assets: one condo, for sale, one 1988 Toyota 4Runner.

Liabilities: ... hey why doesn't my keyboard have that infinity symbol? You know, the one that looks like an "8" on its side?

In short, less credit cards. Many, many less.

[Misunderestimator]

18. Best rant I've read in a while!

:patriot:

[dysfunctional press]

21. what happens when you click on "profile"...?

and then choose "email"?

[tuvor]

2. When are you adding to your list?

I've got you bookmarked, buddy.

[CanuckAmok]

3. Stay tuned....Bl-Co will be the next batch.

...

[NewJeffCT]

10. paypal is a pain in the ass

I had signed up several years back under my name (Jeff XYZ) and used it once, and then not again for a while. However, I won an auction on eBay a few months later and forgot my password. In a rush and not wanting to get negative feedback, I signed up for a new paypal account and used my mother's name (Geri...), even though I used a bank account & credit card in my name. Even though the money and addresses are in my name, I cannot change the name from my mom's name on there, even if I have my mom call them up to say she is no longer part of the account.

I can sign up for a new account under my name - but, then if I try to hook it up to my bank account, it will say that my bank account is being used for another account. So, I can't even do that unless I wanted to open up a new bank account!

[Placebo]

12. Try changing your name on PayPal!

It's a total pain in the ass.

When I originally signed up for Paypal I was too young to have a credit card and bank account of my own, so I used my mothers. Now that I am in college, even though all of the financial info has been transfered over to mine, IT STILL SAYS HER NAME!

In order to get it changed you need to fax documents to PayPal and show all of this evidence, blah!

[tjdee]

14. When I signed up for Paypal I used just my initials--and I can't get their

debit card now because of some nonsense because my full name isn't there, or some nonsense. And to change it, I have to go through all this rigamarolle...

Well guess what, Paypal, you should have thought about that when you first started your website and allowed people to sign up like that!

I suspect Paypal is the devil.

[Placebo]

15. I suspect it too.

:smoke: