Paypal Hates the Poor

[Aeon221]

Not kidding:

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/

As you know, we have been trying to buy Christmas presents for kids in the Regretsy community.We took many applications, vetted them carefully and set about creating a giant gift exchange program, where you could buy a gift for the over 200 children we’re helping.
We raised so much money that we found ourselves in a position of not just being able to send toys, but to send a monetary gift to the families as well. We hoped it might help them make their holiday dinners more special, or maybe pay a pressing bill.

PAYPAL: Only a nonprofit can use the Donate button.
ME: That’s false. It says right in the PDF of instructions for the Donate button that it can be used for “worthy causes.”
PAYPAL: I haven’t seen that PDF. And what you’re doing is not a worthy cause, it’s charity.
ME: What’s the difference?
PAYPAL:You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.

So to recap:
$ They allowed me to use a donate button, and got a portion of the donations
$ Then made me return the donations, and kept a portion of the fees on the donations
$ They allowed me to use a Buy Now button to sell gifts individually, and got a portion of those sales
$ Then made me return the sales, and kept a portion of the fees on the sales
$ They processed the toy purchases, and made fees on that

If you're ticked off by this (which you really ought to be, helping others is one of those things that everyone loves to do regardless of political orientation), feel free to pass it along to others, send it to a media outfit or shoot an irate email to one of these five paypal email addresses:


moldenburg@paypal.com (Michael Moldenburg, Paypal Complaints)
apires@paypal.com (Amanda Pires — Media Relations Contact)
sthompson@paypal.com (Scott Thompson, PayPal President)
mhentges@paypal.com (Mary Hentges, CFO PayPal)
crme@paypal.com (PayPal Office of Executive Escalations)


Moderator Action: Has nothing to do with Civ4 -> moved to OT.

 

[Defiant47]

Duplicate thread.

Moderator Action: And closed.