I fully boycott Zuckerberg’s offerings bar WhatsApp coz the bastard bought it out from under us. Fuck him, fuck Meta
Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%
kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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Clanket@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Agreed, though I don’t think Thiel is involved in Paypal anymore.
kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
[deleted]Syntha@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
PayPal was not founded by Musk
FluffyTailSociety@lemmy.ca 11 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.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Not quite but credit cards and Interac e-Transfer.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
PayPal blocked my account in like 2017 or something, never used it again
Djfok43@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aren’t there alternatives to Paypal, like Wise and Revolut?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 11 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.
philpo@feddit.org 11 months ago
Often enough the credit card payment still is done through PayPal, though
Djfok43@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wat? I have one I’m the one that suggested it 💀
Potatar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You went back to the banking industry and you report this event as a good thing?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 11 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.
zerofk@lemm.ee 11 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.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 11 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.
LeTak@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Germany tries to make one every two years. The newest one is called Wero/kwitt
Snoopy@piefed.social 11 months ago
And wero from European paiement initiative that regroup all major french and german bank.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 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.
Snoopy@piefed.social 11 months ago
It will be open later to shop and eshop. Probably around 2026
wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 11 months ago
Except in Germany you can chose from like three whole banks that participate
Poolitzer@feddit.org 11 months ago
No no way more
Tja@programming.dev 11 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.
Djfok43@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s a sepa transfer
golli@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Single Euro Payments Area it’s basically just your regular bank transfer in most of europe.
Nightwish76@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Google Pay. Wise and Revolut are money wallet + transfer tools.
FluffyTailSociety@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Ah, I should have read down further. I’ll look those up.