PayPal Account Payment Service Pointless

Finally thinking of upgrading my account and getting some land again and the offer of using PayPal made me take the plunge.. or it would have, if it worked.

I can update my billing to PayPal, it all confirms and so on, but when I click to actually change my billing to $9.95 monthly from Free, it fails.

So a little reading turns out that Linden Labs wont accept electronic funds transfer, especially not from my country, (United Kingdom), furthermore, they wont even accept funds from my PayPal account's pool.

So in fact, the only payment they'll accept is my credit card. I could have just entered my credit card details straight into the secondlife.com page. Now we have PayPal acting as a middleman!

Utterly, utterly pointless.

Edit: Ah, so it turns out it's PayPal who wont do automated bank transfers from my country, which has tempered my annoyance, but still doesn't help me. Oh well.

I use PayPal. They wouldn't let me do much of anything until a month later or so. I've had if for 2 years and I love it and I do almost everything with paypal now. And I buy from businesses from the UK, Australia, etc, who also use it
I don't know why it wouldn't be working for ya in that manner. But it might be the verification stuff and time limits before your allowed to go up a level in the account type.
There are several levels of it.
Back when I was trying to set it up for ebay I had to upgrade my account type to a premier business account in order to sell for example. Paypal was a little frustrating for sure because I didn't get what it was trying to do then. But after getting it the idea I love it for everything.
Especilly the debit card. Ehehe
No more stupid credit cards messin with my head. (thou you do need a CC to get the paypal debit card) I just don't give my CC the time of day anymore.

I use paypal to pay for my hosting. And for people to leave me a few bucks after I clean their pc out.

PayPal isn't perfect. But it's the only game in town besides direct wire transfer.

Clean their PC out? Like hacking? LOL

No. More like this: http://www.save-a-geek.com/?p=10
Removing spyware, etc, etc.

I don't get paid that much

OOH cool. Hmm not to change the subject but a quick question. Is it safer to use the on screen keyboard to type in passwords? (keyloggers are everywhere)

Depends. If you think your computer might be infected with something, don't fuck around, wipe it clean. Onscreen keyboards will only work until trojan writers start coding in screen-capture methods. Which... as far as we know, might already be happening.

If you're still using Internet Explorer... all bets are off.

Woops. I use IE once in awhile. But I use FireFox also. Its just so darn slow though.
But wouldn't the screen capture just get ************* for a password? I'm sure there are ways to get it by targeting the on-screen keyboard too. Anything is hackable. Especilly something old like that.
Anyways.
If I have to wipe my system clean I'm going to lose a lot of work. I cant back it up either cause anything can contain the spyware or virus couldn't it?


Update: Is it bad if all the objects in my IE properties just dissapeared. Cept yahoo objects. I had some Java stuff in there and one day it just poofed. (I always check it for added objects when I'm done with IE)

Put up with the slow. Try Opera as well. Other browsers do occasionally have security holes, but the difference between using them and using IE is like the difference between not washing your hands before eating and running barefoot through a toxic waste dump full of left-over syringes from an Ebola clinic.

In 1997 I managed to ban IE (and other programs that used the MS HTML control like Outlook or Outlook Express and later Media Player) at work.

Between 1997 and 2001 that and a couple of Word macros that disabled autoexecute were our only desktop anti-virus protection at the office. In 2001 we started distributing Norton Antivirus on new computers and added it to existing machines as we upgraded them.

We had NO incidents of more than single isolated computers being infected, while the rest of the company was practically shut down by worms several times.

If you do that and turn off Client and Server as well, and firewall the ports Windows Networking (LAN Manager, File and Print, whatever the current buzzword is) uses, you're actually pretty safe using Windows.

Though it looks like AIM is becoming the new IE.

Paypal won't do transfers from your country? Well, yee-haw that's whatcha git fer being a ferner!