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I thought I’d share this with you just in you get or give a PayPal Debit Card.
My Daughter ask me what I wanted for my birthday “Last September” and I told her a PayPal Gift Card. Well she found a card at the store that has PayPal on it. But it wasn’t a Gift Card but a PayPal Debit MasterCard. Her $25 dollar Gift cost her $29.95, $4.95 service charge???
My Daughter lives out of town and for whatever the reason I didn’t get the Card until the 1st week in February. I attempted to use it a few days later on PayPal and couldn’t get it to work. So I called PayPal and was told I had to go to their WEB site (www.PayPal.com/Prepaid) and activate the card. To activate the card you have to give them your Social Security # and other Personal information. I didn’t want to let the $25 go to waste so I did, ya I know that was an “ID-TEN-T” error. AKA I’m an “Idiot”. After I activated it to I find out they send you a “Permanent” new card which I’d get in ~ 10 days. So I get the card and set it up in PayPal and try to make a $25 payment to BJ for his WEB site. The transactions would not work, have to use my regular set up for BJ. So I call PayPal to find out what’s going on. I am told the balance on the card wasn’t $25 but a negative $4.95. I ask how that can be I just activated the card. Well it seems there is a $4.95 a month service charge on the Debit Card?????? I now owe them $4.95 because the card was purchased in September of 2014 and the monthly service charge started then. LOL, the math don’t add up, 5 months at $4.95 is $24.75. I should have still 25 cents on the card!!
Needless to say I canceled the card before the balance due on the card more than I paid for my house. No way am I going to pay them $4.95 for a $25 gift my Daughter had already paid $29.95 for and now is worth ZERO!! So now I wonder if they will turn me over to a collection agency to get the $4.95. Do they have internet in jail??
My Daughter ask me what I wanted for my birthday “Last September” and I told her a PayPal Gift Card. Well she found a card at the store that has PayPal on it. But it wasn’t a Gift Card but a PayPal Debit MasterCard. Her $25 dollar Gift cost her $29.95, $4.95 service charge???
My Daughter lives out of town and for whatever the reason I didn’t get the Card until the 1st week in February. I attempted to use it a few days later on PayPal and couldn’t get it to work. So I called PayPal and was told I had to go to their WEB site (www.PayPal.com/Prepaid) and activate the card. To activate the card you have to give them your Social Security # and other Personal information. I didn’t want to let the $25 go to waste so I did, ya I know that was an “ID-TEN-T” error. AKA I’m an “Idiot”. After I activated it to I find out they send you a “Permanent” new card which I’d get in ~ 10 days. So I get the card and set it up in PayPal and try to make a $25 payment to BJ for his WEB site. The transactions would not work, have to use my regular set up for BJ. So I call PayPal to find out what’s going on. I am told the balance on the card wasn’t $25 but a negative $4.95. I ask how that can be I just activated the card. Well it seems there is a $4.95 a month service charge on the Debit Card?????? I now owe them $4.95 because the card was purchased in September of 2014 and the monthly service charge started then. LOL, the math don’t add up, 5 months at $4.95 is $24.75. I should have still 25 cents on the card!!
Needless to say I canceled the card before the balance due on the card more than I paid for my house. No way am I going to pay them $4.95 for a $25 gift my Daughter had already paid $29.95 for and now is worth ZERO!! So now I wonder if they will turn me over to a collection agency to get the $4.95. Do they have internet in jail??
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