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Julie Zickefoose's avatar

Gotcha one better. Not only do I do business by PayPal for Social (Thank you for introducing me to that!), but I just watched a stunning sunset atop my birding tower, and the soundtrack was a gray squirrel scolding, a towhee tweeting, and a hot electronic hiss emitted by the sleek, square Starlink satellite dish that gives me my Internet. I suppose I have some kind of choice to use PayPal, though I know not what might replace it. There is no other viable Internet service in my rural area. I know because I've suffered under an array of pathetic "servers" that charged a king's ransom for nothing. Entangled. Completely. And freaking out. Heather Cox Richardson pronounces DOGE "doggy" and I will, too.

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Matt Mullenix's avatar

I sold several of my friends on “dodgy” Musk’s PayPal service, and I regret that, despite it being serviceable, in fact. Musk’s product clearly works. No one said the overseers were going to be incompetent.

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Lee Chichester's avatar

Never used PayPal or Venmo. But I don’t do much personal-to-person monetary exchanges. Hadn’t realized PP was Muskrat’s gig, but never trusted it. I do everything with ApplePay or cash.

After my mom died in late ‘22, Jack and I began “ death cleaning” to clear out our basement of stuff we don’t use any longer, and for those transactions, it’s cash or no sale. But I get the ease of PP to sell books. What about Square? My dog groomer uses Square. I know nothing about it, except it takes ApplePay.

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Matt Mullenix's avatar

I’ll have to spend some time figuring out a pro-democracy pay platform. Maybe Mark Cuban owns one :-)

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