Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%

kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Djfok43@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aren’t there alternatives to Paypal, like Wise and Revolut?

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  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you need one?

    I recently deleted my PayPal account and use a virtual credit card instead.

    So far no issues with paying. In the rare case that credit card is not available you can always pay without account in PayPal via credit card.

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    • philpo@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Often enough the credit card payment still is done through PayPal, though

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    • Djfok43@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wat? I have one I’m the one that suggested it 💀

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    • Potatar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You went back to the banking industry and you report this event as a good thing?

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      • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are telling me you are paying via PayPal without involving the banking industry?

        I have the choice to either tell PayPal and my bank what I’m buying or just my bank. I chose the latter.

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    • zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A virtual credit card? Is that something your bank offers, or how would one go about getting it?

      The reason I originally got PayPal is because many sites don’t accept debet cards so I often had no way to pay at all.

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      • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s a credit or debit card where you can change the number any time. Prevents shady online shops from loosing your credit card details. Revolut and N26 offer it for example.

        Of course, the shop still has to accept credit/debit cards or you have to go though PayPal as guest.

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  • LeTak@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Germany tries to make one every two years. The newest one is called Wero/kwitt

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  • Snoopy@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And wero from European paiement initiative that regroup all major french and german bank.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Far as I know it’s more of a send money from phone to phone thing for now. My bank supports it, but it’s only an option in the app which I don’t use.
      It is especially sad since it was meant to replace giropay, which actually was more like Paypal than wero is.
      Let’s hope it is just a matter of time.

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      • Snoopy@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It will be open later to shop and eshop. Probably around 2026

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    • wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except in Germany you can chose from like three whole banks that participate

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      • Poolitzer@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No no way more

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Europe, sepa transfers are free and instant transfers will be mandatory free from October.

    To pay in e-commerce, revolut has unlimited one-use cards, no need for PayPal.

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    • Djfok43@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s a sepa transfer

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      • golli@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Single Euro Payments Area it’s basically just your regular bank transfer in most of europe.

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  • Nightwish76@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google Pay. Wise and Revolut are money wallet + transfer tools.

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  • FluffyTailSociety@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, I should have read down further. I’ll look those up.

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• Clanket@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fully boycott Zuckerberg’s offerings bar WhatsApp coz the bastard bought it out from under us. Fuck him, fuck Meta

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• ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed, though I don’t think Thiel is involved in Paypal anymore.

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  • kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Syntha@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      PayPal was not founded by Musk

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• FluffyTailSociety@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there a Canadian version of paypal that works the same way? I was searching but couldn’t find one and ever since AI came around my business shrank to almost nothing. Also, other than having an old nearly defunct facebook account, what $ would I be unwittingly giving to Zuckerberg? Serious and naïve question.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not quite but credit cards and Interac e-Transfer.

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PayPal blocked my account in like 2017 or something, never used it again

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