[Coco] "The PayPal Effect"

[Mannequin*]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:37:13 -0500
Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:

> At 03:38 PM 10/11/2004, you wrote:
> >I didn't know any registrars even accepted Paypal...
> 
> Actually, they do!  A lot of services now accept PayPal payments.  But 
> Doteasy is not accepting "PayPal", but rather, the PayPal Mastercard which 
> is a credit/debit card linked to your PayPal funds/checking account.  It 
> does not matter, because if PayPal cannot carry out the transfer for some 
> reason, whoever is expecting it will rebill at their own pace.
> 
> This I know... PayPal has 50 million users.  Most of those users rely on 
> PayPal.  Ebay and PayPal are basically glued at the hip.  This is why I say 
> trouble is probably unfolding.  Unless, that is, if I am the only user out 
> of 50 million that is not able to visit their web site right now, and has a 
> payment that has gone unprocessed for too long?
> 

Roger, my wife is still awaiting a payment from someone who said they would send
it a few days ago. They said that they couldn't access Paypal to get us the
money. Last night (about 11pm) I tried to see if she sent it, and, lo and
behold, I couldn't access Paypal, either.

Speaking of "Internet Farts", MSN Messenger is screwed up because the network
has a virus. They haven't fixed it YET, even though it's be over 24 hours since
we started noticing problems. Leave it to Microsoft to get a virus on their own
buggy software. (Maybe they're swiching to Linux... YEAH RIGHT! Cold day in hell
if that ever happens!)

-M.