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12/17/2003 Entry: "PAY PAL"

PAY PAL

I've blogged Pay Pal before but I'll do it again. I much prefer it to a lot of other ways of sending someone money. It's easy, secure and you can keep a handle on it. You open an account at your bank, put X number of bucks in the account and you're set.

Then go to https://www.paypal.com and open an account. It's pretty straight forward after that. If you buy a book on line or want to send someone who has an email address money, it will tell you how. You aren't exposing your credit card and you can't lose any more than you have in the special bank account. I've used it for some time now (not a whole lot) and have not had any problems. I've always had a zero balance with Pay Pal, but I may change that as otherwise it takes 3 to 4 days for the transaction to take place. Today it would have been better had I left a balance in Pay Pal as I wasn't anticipating needing it and did!