New official TF2 blog post up. Main point? It’s about a hat describing contest. Yeah, I’m not touching this subject. There’s also the soldier receiving a couple of cosmetic items for those who preordered Worms Reloaded. But if you already did that, you should be playing it right about now.
Now time for a small rant. Actually, hit the jump, I don’t think this is related and I shouldn’t throw walls of texts at you, but anyone that has a paypal account should give it a read.
So. See that little paypal donate link on the left column somewhere? You don’t? Oh, right paypal screwed me over and annoyed the crap out of me the past two weeks. Basically my account got limited after I apparently hit a transaction limit without warning. Now nevermind the fact that I’ve used this account for two years without a problem, I have to verify myself!
So I have to provide Photo ID and proof of address. Well, the first one was relatively easy, but the second one is where shit gets annoying. Let’s just say I’ve submitted about a dozen documents, half of them signed and official, and my account still remains limited. I’ve called them internationally about 5 times, as their mailbox just shits out boilerplate replies every time, and I haven’t made any progress, even though support assured me otherwise.
Now I do have a nice debit card, and I can pay through that, so why is this such a big deal? You see, my account got limited as I was trying to order the EU version of SC2. The transaction got frozen, and the shop freaked out asking me what I’m trying to pull. Neither of us can’t cancel that transaction, so I’m stuck with this now. Hopefully the shop understands what the situation is and works something out with me.
Here’s my advice to anyone that frequently uses a paypal account. Don’t. You can google around and you’ll find plenty of horror stories, but you’ll disregard them until inevitably one of them happens to you. If you are receiving money through paypal, withdrawl anything to your card as soon as you can.
See, paypal isn’t even that secure. You can get scammed, and paypal won’t rush to your aid. It’ll just freeze accounts until something happens, but they won’t reimburse you for your losses if the guy already got his money. With your bank, however, this problem doesn’t exist. And with a bank I wouldn’t be out of a couple hundred dollars for the next months, nor would I have had a crap week waiting on phone calls all day.
EDIT: Yeah, my limitation isn’t going to get lifted any time soon. 180 days to be exact. I’ve submitted official, signed documents that contain the right information, and support kept reading over what I sent telling me everything’s right, but whoever verifies that information blows me off every single time.
Take it from me, if you’re using paypal, you’ll enjoy the service until they screw you over with their overly paranoid policies. Use your bank to make payments, it’s a lot more secure.
August 26th, 2010 at 1:55 am
Sorry, dude. Lesson unfortunately learned the hard way.
Better luck next time!
August 26th, 2010 at 3:59 am
Huh, my friend just released an announcement on his forums (today) that donations should only be made in larger amounts (donations buy you reserved slots for as many months as you pay for) because Paypal is now charging him ridiculous transfer fees. What is Paypal doing?!
August 26th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Oh and paypalsucks.com just got hit by some ridiculous virus attacks. You should probably stop linking it- AVG stops me from going to the site, and it doesn’t do that unless something is MAJORLY wrong. Especially since I disabled all but the most fundamental features and have it at lowest security.
August 26th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Wow, that blows a lot… Sorry to hear that dude.
Thanks for the advise.
August 26th, 2010 at 8:40 am
I’ve had the same thing, since all the donations from the community came through my account. After you transferred about a 1000 bucks since the creation of your account, PayPal starts bitching about verification.
Thing is, I submitted documents too, but PayPal kept saying I needed some other stuff I had no idea how to get.
So in the end I just send a few VERY informative support emails, stating what I submitted and what sort of transactions I make and receive. I also made it clear I had no fucking idea what to do. After a few of these emails my account suddenly went from verification clusterfuck back to normal. I haven’t had any trouble with PayPal since
August 26th, 2010 at 10:56 am
@Jeziah: Weird, it seems AVG has something with the site.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.paypalsucks.com
Either way, I use noscript and have sites blocked on default. You should too.
August 29th, 2010 at 12:04 am
Don’t use AVG, its a terrible product, and has been for a while. Its clunky, slow, has a poor detection rate, and has a high false-positive rate. It’s also no longer owned by the original AVG team.
Instead use Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ as it is hands-down the best of the free virus scanners currently available
August 29th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Screw MSE, Avast! Free edition is the best free anti-virus yet
I’ve had ZERO false positives, and I have never ever been infected with it, I do semi-frequent scans with it, and it has frequent virus database updates, and I really mean FREQUENT
Then again, the sites I go to barely get virus attacked
August 29th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Avast? AVAST? AVAST!!!
Avast is absolutely AWFUL. It is one of the worst virus and most resource hungry scanners on the fucking planet. I can’t believe ANYONE would recommend it over Microsoft Security Essentials.
September 10th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
I can’t belive anybody would suggest using a microsoft product….
How can you belive in security/power of it’s antivirus, while their os is completly unsecure? if they had skill to do anything security-related, windows would be secure. Now, is it? not even a bit.