PayPal.Me

https://www.paypal.me/

by napolux • 11 years ago

46 77 11 years ago

praeivis• 11 years ago

Sorry about that...PayPal.Me isn't available in your country.

glogla• 11 years ago

I love how you can't even see FAQ or About pages if you're not in the supported country. That's Google Play Store level UX.

christop2• 11 years ago

Even if you are in a supported country, when setting up a page, the "Learn more about our fees" page is a 404: https://www.paypal.com/%7BcoBrand%7D/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees

rattray4• 11 years ago

From the FAQ:

Is PayPal.Me available in my country?
We’re adding new regions as fast as we can. Check back often to see if it’s available in your country.

That's just seriously bad. "Check back often" -- they won't even provide a list of currently-available countries, let alone a simple "leave your email for updates" box.

jhildings2• 11 years ago

That's stupid, how can this kind of thing not be "available" in a country? It's totally isolated from the service

BillPond2• 11 years ago

Based on my previous paypal experiences, I would rather send my money with any of the other money platforms that are out there.

swagswag• 11 years ago

Square or Stripe?

BillPond2• 11 years ago

Every friend circle uses a different service, but its mostly facebook or square. No issues with either!

smpetrey• 11 years ago

Stripe and Square are both my goto service. But why limit yourself to one avenue of getting paid. Best to be flexible.

rattray4• 11 years ago

How long ago were those experiences?

The company seems to be undergoing several large changes since they became independent from eBay

EDIT: I'm also curious the kind of bad experiences you had?

johnnymonster• 11 years ago

paypal is by far the worst payment processing system that I have ever used...

Aoyagi2• 11 years ago

Why?

dijit• 11 years ago

Terrible site, slow load times, history of poor security. Disenfranchised workers and a bureaucratic nightmare. Along with a history of freezing assets of popular projects for no reason. (wikileaks donations for instance).

http://www.paypalsucks.com/ https://www.aboutpaypal.org/

jzig• 11 years ago

paypal.me/support is available!

Jarred• 11 years ago

no longer!

ahmad19526• 11 years ago

Paypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?

gorena2• 11 years ago

The Venmo team is a different team, located in NYC instead of California, has a brand that people actually like, something something middle managers. This kind of nonsense is standard issue from eBay and I don't think it would have changed in a month of separation.

rattray4• 11 years ago

Venmo has a team in SF now, and eBay doesn't own PayPal anymore.

Personally, I think it makes a lot of sense. This seems like a lower-friction flow, especially when requesting money from people who have never heard of Venmo – not everyone trust a payment processor they've never heard of, and PayPal has much broader awareness than Venmo.

benjaminva• 11 years ago

It´s available here in Germany and I feared that fees would apply for every transaction but learning from the FAQ, when transferring money between friends/family this is actually free. Given, that in Germany, transactions between banks are free too, the whole cycle of shifting money should be also free for Paypal (omitting costs for running the service of course). I am looking forward to trying it out, it might be much nicer than giving someone the IBAN and letting him handle the transaction via the bank.

ruxkor• 11 years ago

An alternative in Germany (or any country adhering to the IBAN/BIC numbering system) is cringle [1]. It uses direct withdrawals (Lastschrift) or wire transfers and does not require the other party to have a cringle account in order to receive money, according to their website.

[1] https://www.cringle.net

fwn• 11 years ago

Cringle transactions are only free since very recently. Prior to that they wanted something between 10 to 20 cent per transaction. Even worse they seem to need six days for your transaction. (It's three days per transaction and they transfer it to their own account in-between)

mmackh• 11 years ago

It's fun to get in on services early and have the choice of a username: https://www.paypal.me/more

mangeletti• 11 years ago

Tell me about it: https://www.paypal.me/signup

It looks like somebody already grabbed https://www.paypal.me/login

newjersey• 11 years ago

They won't allow me to take PayPal.me/sex or PayPal.me/Google :(

LinkDJ• 11 years ago

I grabbed https://www.paypal.me/test

root was also available, sadly 404 was not.

praseodym• 11 years ago

I grabbed https://www.paypal.me/pages - suprised it worked considering https://www.paypal.me/pages/faqs, https://www.paypal.me/pages/terms and https://www.paypal.me/pages/1337

christop2• 11 years ago

If you need a refund, just visit https://www.paypal.me/refund — enter an amount and hit send! :)

odiroot• 11 years ago

Me not being very inventive, grabbed "myself".

nk-• 11 years ago

Want to give PayPal.me a try? Have a look at the demo: http://paypal.me/demo :)

kmfrk2• 11 years ago

Much cheap, very legit: https://www.paypal.me/discount?code=hackernews.

RamenJunkie_• 11 years ago

Oh wow, all of these make me really not want tot rust this service on any level. I mean how stupid can you be to not make a list of usernames to filter/block when designing this sort of system?

TomGullen• 11 years ago

Paypal, sort out the problems you've had for years on your main site:

* Incredibly slow page loads * I have to login twice each time * If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail * It goes on and on

dopamean• 11 years ago

If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail

Jesus. Is that really true?

jcoby• 11 years ago

It happens with cookies as well. It's especially bad on the developer sandbox. If you ever have trouble using the sandbox it's either because your cookie is too big or it's broken for the 11th time this week.

solaris999• 11 years ago

Good on you for listing your gripes with them. Too often I see people complaining about PayPal in general but I've managed to miss actual reasons before now.

nailer• 11 years ago

Normally it's because their account is suddenly closed, without any reason given, and no correspondence is entered into.

Also they're happy to support hate groups, but blacklisted wikileaks.

_jomo• 11 years ago

It doesn't show error messages when a transaction fails, it just does nothing. I had to look at the JSON response to figure out it was denied.

gorena2• 11 years ago

I attempted to sign up with a 50 character 1Password-generated password, and was told that passwords cannot be longer than 20 characters.

I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

Use with caution.

murbard2• 11 years ago

Or they just have length bounds on every string input that they have (as they should) but the person in charge of deciding the bound for the passwords did a bad job and picked too low of a limit.

atonse2• 11 years ago

Normally I'd cry foul but 20 alphanumeric characters (roughly 64^20, or 1e36 combinations) is more than sufficient.

chaz72• 11 years ago

The issue is not the 20 characters, but the underlying reason for it. There's no technical reason they would need it unless they were storing it insecurely.

Granted it's possible they're limiting it to 20 for a nontechnical reason, but I have some 40-character passwords in a password manager. Long passwords are not only reasonable, but this is a giant alarm bell if they even imply they might be storing them insecurely.

minimaxir• 11 years ago

I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

One of the (bad) reasons companies impose password length limits is that the user is less likely to forger a shorter password, and therefore it saves money on inevitable support calls.

Granted, a 20-character limit is probably too high for this justification to be valid.

andrewmcwatters• 11 years ago

Wow, thanks for the heads up! Yeah, I mean like I only use websites that allow me to use 2048 character passwords, because I like to use lorem ipsum websites as my password generators.

cptskippy• 11 years ago

I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

I can't see any reason for this conclusion other than the fact that you've never worked for a large corporation where product development often dictated by departments other than IT.

colinsidoti• 11 years ago

Ahh I tried doing this with Stripe and Stripe Checkout on StripePal.com but they wouldn't let me do it because money services businesses aren't allowed :(

I really like this concept though. If I wasn't paranoid about frozen assets I would be happy to use it.

Geeek• 11 years ago

So its like Square cash but owned by PayPal? Thanks but no.

Kluny• 11 years ago

Tried /reddit, /cocacola, and my first name - all taken. Got /sjg, my initials, but now I want to go back and get /rocketships, since that's my domain. Damn! They only let you have one!

nicpottier2• 11 years ago

Deja vu?

For those of us who have been around a while, we might remember this as being PayPal's original purpose in life. I remember paying back friends for lunch using PayPal and feeling like we were living in the future.

Only later did PayPal move into the merchant space more seriously. Maybe my memory is poor and they launched with merchants at the same time but it took a few years for me to ever purchase anything with PayPal, it was all between consumers before.

So ya, welcome back PayPal?

colinbartlett2• 11 years ago

I remember when PayPal was x.com. You'd tell people you could send them money via text message and they'd say, "What's a text message?"

Phogo• 11 years ago

They really need to vet these signups, just got, http://www.paypal.me/official

jessaustin2• 11 years ago

They need a more complete word list. They specifically disallowed "paypal" and "bitch", while allowing "official", "pay", etc.

kome3• 11 years ago

Just to test, send me money: https://paypal.me/martino

Edit: Thank you for your €0,10 kind stranger!

willis77• 11 years ago

Looks like they forgot to test for negative values. I put in -200.00 and it seems to have withdrawn the money from your account without problems ;)

kome3• 11 years ago

ahahah! sadly I don't have so much money, so you can't steal it :)

kedean2• 11 years ago

Looks like they solved that, it now disallowed inputting a dash. I wonder if that's just client-side though.

kmfrk2• 11 years ago

What happened to the story of PayPal handing over users' phone numbers to robocallers? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/06/03/paypal-robocall...

Did it turn out to be true? I haven't deleted my account yet, but I haven't made new purchases nor signed any new agreements since then. Especially since there may not even be a guarantee that they won't do it to people with "disabeld" accounts.

Edit: I just registered the .me account for my regular name, so I won't have someone posing as me or getting payments from people who've confused the owner with me, as a precaution.

weego• 11 years ago

paypal.me/ramen. The new microfunding service for poor oss devs

jbb555• 11 years ago

What is the purpose of this? It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile?

This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem

colinbartlett2• 11 years ago

I am guessing you are outside the U.S. because here it's actually a still a real nuisance to transfer money between banks.

There are plenty of attempts to solve this problem though. Square Cash, Venmo, etc.

PayPal.Me

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