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- whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Maybe this research center can figure out a way to find my $900 dollars that PayPal insists they have no way of tracing once it has been sent to the owner. You don't just "lose" $900 in an electronic funds transfer.
The guy had to have a bank account, right? You used the standard electronic transfer methods the bank requires, right? Are you normally in the business of anonymously transmitting funds electronically to unknown banking institutions, or are you telling me that you sent my cash to someone's mailbox in an envelope?
Sorry for the tangent. My point is that the technology doesn't concern me, their ***** policies and hands-off, impotent and incompetent way of handling fraud are what need research and development. - BullTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Scottsdale is in the Phoenix Metro area.
It is one of the centers of credit card processing in this country.
Paypal is obviously locating there in order to tap on the abundant supply of industry talent.
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&sll=33.509339,-111.895752&sspn=0.569082,1.373291&q=payment&ie=UTF8&om=1 - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Human beings actually work at Paypal? You would've never known, from all the countless people daily who try (and fail) to get any sort of customer support/service.
I had come to the conclusion that Paypal was just some massive automated shell-script that had gone awry and no one could figure out how to shut it down before it ruined more lives/accounts. - tinkafoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Paypal? Hopefully they will start pushing the envelope and researching advanced technological methods for not ripping off its customers. (I wouldn't count on it though.)
- micklerlop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3***** paypal. they'd better fix their protection policies before spending money on this *****.
- mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Foxtrot Alpha Golf
- jeffehobbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"a team on the ground"? Where else would they be, flapping around? This is unnecessary military-speak.
- Sippi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mr. hostility,
Clever.... - author20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When a company has a policy of freezing funds for no reason -- who cares what else they do? They revel in the fact that they "don't have to comply" with banking standards even though they agreed to do exactly that in a settlement of a California class action law suit. Just like AOL and Ebay, PayPal is a rogue company that should be boycotted into history.
Now that there is an alternative, many folks should start using Google's payment system, and wait for the lawsuits to bust open the Ebay restriction (which is completely illegal and inconsistent with their own past policies).
Bye bye paypal -- just shut up and go away. Too late for your company to establish credibility. - stabmyface, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I live in Scottsdale, and it is definitely not rural.
- hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2More tech jobs on US soil are always great thing. Sounds like a nice place to work too if I could do product development.
- wakaseoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't want to flame too much, but the article concludes with "PayPal, founded in 1998, processes online payments with high security "
- ChiKoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hooray for scottsdale! I live in Fountain Hills... maybe I should get a job with Paypal... nah. I'd rather keep my honesty.
- danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was just in Scottsdale...fastest broadband i've ever used; over 1 megabyte per second on bittorrent :)
- wallclimber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Erm...that would be 113 degrees as of yesterday, at least that was what the thermometer read at my house.
Over the years I've heard lots of folks say they wish PayPal would rot in Hell...so maybe they're just trying to acclimate before the Big Move...
OK, it's linchtime, I have to go fry some eggs on the sidewalk... - cheezy321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you really think they paid too much for paypal? Do you realize how much money that company has to make? I'm pretty sure I have given paypal hundreds of dollars, and i haven't even done over 100 transactions on ebay. Paypal is a cash cow.
Dude, you might be making some good points in your post, but all I could see was spelling errors and grammar mistakes. - MCHampster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh my gosh, I cannot stop laughing at someone thinking that Scottsdale is a "rural" area.
Phew *wipes tear away*, That was funny. Thanks! - CreativeGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1tinker123,
You've obviously never been to Scottsdale, because it's one of the fastest growing cities in the Phoenix area... which is (I believe) the 5th largest city in America and still growing rapidly.
To say they are moving to Scottsdale (about the most expensive part of the valley there is) to save money over a "metropolitan area with high prices and higher wages" is just ignorant. - kurrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1400 more people that i can say to
"You work for paypal? How do you sleep at night?" - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Contrary to what a surprising number of people still think, Arizona is not a bunch of cowboys and indians.
- pegleg1971, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alex, I'll take Google for 1000.....
HAHA we got adsense moving in for 1000 jobs in michigan, eat that scottsdale!!! - vostek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sounds good. I moved to AZ 6 months ago. No shortage of jobs, thats for sure. That, and the cost of living is more reasonable than Cali/New York.
....lets just ignore the fact that its 110 degrees in the summer. - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where do I sign up?
- acurism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1enter Google!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is another example of a positive trickle ( for Americans ) of "off shoring" to rural America.
I'm guessing that some tech firms see doing this as more expensive then going overseas, but still cheaper than locating in a metropolitan area with higher prices and higher wages. They may find this slightly additional cost worth it to avoid language/accent issues, travel costs, and the problem with countries such as India where bribery is a way of life.
Who wants to trust vital information to the poorest of the poor, in a country not bound by our laws, in a society where taking bribes is acceptable?
For example
http://digg.com/world_news/India_at_risk_of_being_Britained
No offense to anyone. - sinurgy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Scottsdale=rural America?!?! rofl...that has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long time!!!
It's a large suburb of Phoenix which is the 5th largest city in the United States, not exactly what I'd call rural. Not to mention Scottsdale is a very trendy, beautiful people, lots of money kind of suburb. The average house price in Scottsdale, AZ is around $600k. They even made press lately because of that stupid MTV show where some spoiled brat got 2 brand new cars for her 16th birthday. She was of course from none other than Scottsdale. lol...man if Scottsdale is rural we should all move to the "country"! Yeehaw!!! :-P - ssmith39, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ebay and Paypal would be better companies if they had a strong competitor.
- DocNasty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Paypal is adding 400 Jobs to Scottsdale.....
What that really means is this:
%u2022 Paypal is going to put 395 people in SV on Unemployment because they're only moving management.
%u2022 Paypal will gut our current competent payment companies for their talent
%u2022 Eventually, those that were lulled away will realize they were disillusioned and are going to try to get their old jobs back...
%u2022 Consumers will lose out because both systems will suck.
I don't see innovation here, I see us getting the shaft. Ebay/Paypal/Skype will screw this up somehow. GPay may save us, but where the hell are we gonna use it at...other than adSense? BTW, I don't particularly like paypal... Their business is shady enough, and they don't owe you any explanations for their actions, and they don't offer an appeal process for their decisions. - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2There moving there because it's cheaper than here in the
Silicon Vally. EBay's paid too much for paypal so they have to
try to make some of that money back.
Even thoe there the number one Auction site there business is slowing.
No one really wants to work for ebay-paypal in the Vally anyway it's a sweatshop.
There is also to much competition for employees here in the Vally for
EBay's salary's bases to compete.
Simple as that. If you can stand 110 days and staying inside
all the time it's a good deal.
I only have one bitch with pay-pal.
the fact that they can control what you can and can't pay for using
the service.
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