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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 11 minutes ago

  Turn on login alerts and payment notifications By default, PayPal sends email confirmations for completed payments. But it doesn't always alert you about new logins, password changes, or account modifications. His friend said: "Go to Settings. Click Notifications. Turn on alerts for everything logins, sent payments, received payments, password changes, linked device changes. Get them via email and push notification." He then showed him the Activity page a full log of every transaction, login, and account event. Most people never scroll through it. He said: "Spend 2 minutes once a month scrolling through your Activity feed. Look for payments you don't recognize, logins from unknown devices, or subscriptions you forgot about. That $2.49/month charge ran for 7 months before you noticed it. If you'd been checking Activity once a month, you'd have caught it after the first charge."

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  Todd | Saudi Money (@ToddSaudiMoney) reported 12 minutes ago

  Stripe shut down my friend's account at $47K revenue IRS flagged another one for "suspicious patterns" at $80K PayPal froze $12K for 6 months with zero explanation Meanwhile I just cleared $90K commission on a single gold shipment No platform risk No freeze threats Bank-to-bank wire transfers only The system doesn't care how much you make when you're moving real commodities between verified entities Like, RT & comment "WIRE" for the guide (must be following)

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  ASHT0N (@ashkmeow) reported 14 minutes ago

  @drainddog hii, i’m tryna fix my paypal situation atm so i’m HOPEFULLY going to be switching back to paypal/kofi payments v soon 🤞

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  BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® (@TheBillionaireU) reported 15 minutes ago

  27-year-old Elon Musk paid $200 a month for a leaky roof office and slept in it because it was cheaper than an apartment. Summer of 1995, no money, no income, so he showered at the YMCA for 4 months and worked out of the nastiest place you can imagine. The office had 1 hidden advantage an internet provider sat on the floor below, so he drilled a hole in the concrete and plugged straight into their server for near-free bandwidth. He couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router either, so he read a white paper and wrote an emulator, skipped the web server entirely to save CPU cycles, read port 8080 directly, and coded the first national maps, directions and yellow pages on the internet that summer in C with a little C++. The company was Zip2 online city guides, where to eat, how to get around. By 1998 CBS came to film the vintage Jaguar, the 6-figure salary, the dog, the house, the girlfriend, and a market Microsoft had tried to enter and failed. Then the reporter asked the standard 1998 question where is the internet going? The 27-year-old answered like he’d already seen the ending: “The internet is the superset of all media. Print, radio, broadcast all of it folds into the internet. It’s the first two-way medium that’s intelligent, where consumers choose what they see and when they see it.” That was 28 years ago and he was describing a feed. A year later Zip2 sold for $307M, the money became X com, X com became PayPal, and PayPal became rockets. It all started with a drill and the server downstairs.

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  44🎐’ (@JS44UTD_) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Cian_UTD @Theirishladdd no worries mate this is fine just use your PIP and monthly payments of 1543 to fix this since you don’t need paypal anymore👊

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  MaxGaming170 | Changeling VTuber (@MaxRenRez2) reported 18 minutes ago

  @MendamCaedo @takasiraVT Vroid is one option, but you can rarely get anywhere with that. The point I'm making is that this industry is predatory for newcomers and old timers alike. Particularly in the modeling, art, and rigging departments. People will scam you, hide things in TOS, and just recently threaten to revoke the model entirely without a refund if you even touch AI for one reason or another (including using an AI reference sheet, by the way). There's even a server out there that has decided to just start banning people if they use it on ANY PLATFORM, like some 1984 type ****. Cheap artists can rarely be trusted either, because again- on the off chance you don't read over your agreement with like seven lawyers, they can just decide to take it away because of any slight problem they have with you. And let's not even mention the fact that some people will decide to drag their *** on the commissions until the six month refund period on paypal has expired, then take the money and run, meaning that now you're out several thousand dollars depending on how expensive that commission was.. With all of this in mind, do you see why people are hesitant to turn to artists who are screeching about losing their commissions and turning to sources that won't complain about what they choose to do?

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  ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ (@NotJoshGeyer) reported 21 minutes ago

  **MOLD SAGA UPDATE** Car is in the bay, waiting on tools to be dropped off and parts to be delivered so I can fix this pulley and belt and coil packs. Could REALLY use $50 for gas, I’ve only got a half a tank and I need to get to Atlanta and drive around a little bit before I’ll make any money so if anyone wanted to throw me even a couple bucks it would help tremendously. Cashapp $primetime1313 PayPal JoshGeyer1313

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  Dan Farfan (@DanFarfan) reported 21 minutes ago

  Stripe + Block + Paypal (SBP) is a HUGE problem for Visa and Mastercard (V+M) because suddenly zillions of dollars of xactions become local only to SBP and off V+M networks (and pocketbooks). V, M or both must find something ginormous (now or potential) to buy... (e.g. what I'm building $-))

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  amani ༊*·˚ (@gonnaendintears) reported 23 minutes ago

  @liestogirls i’ve ordered a vinyl from discogs!! i didn’t have any issues with it or anything and i used paypal g&s for security and stuff

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  Podcast Alpha (@PodcastAlphaX) reported 29 minutes ago

  @FinanceNinjaB @DavidSacks Paypal’s biggest issue is its brand name is on a decline - similar to eBay in warly 2020’s. They have solid foundation but a lot of headwind in growth. Not sure if they can get the process targrt you are looking for with the current state.

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  Carl Weische (@CarlWeische) reported 29 minutes ago

  You're currently losing 70-75% of purchases to abandoned carts (70-75% is the avg in ecom) & taking that rate down to 65% or even 60% is something you can do in literally a few hours. So here's every reason people leave the cart & how you can fix it: 1. 48% leave because of surprise costs This is by far the biggest one. They get to the payment step with their card in their hand, & suddenly there's $20 shipping or some handling fee they didn’t see coming. So communicate every cost (shipping, handling, taxes) on the PDP & in the cart, before they hit the checkout. Something like "free shipping over $50, taxes included" right next to the price. Same deal with delivery times. If you're dropshipping & delivery takes 5-10 days, do NOT save that for the end of the buyer journey. Say on the product page that you dispatch within 1-2 days (which is true), so the shipping time isn't a nasty surprise when they're about to pay. 2. 25% leave because you made them create an account I straight up don't buy from stores that force me to register, & apparently neither does a quarter of your lost traffic. So have guest checkout, always. & remove that pre-ticked newsletter box as well, that one makes people drop off too. 3. & a big chunk leave because they don't trust you, or can't pay the way they want to pay So put your payment logos (PayPal, Klarna, Amex, Visa, whatever you take) on the PDP, in the cart, AND inside the checkout itself, basically just put it everywhere. & answer all the questions that could be running through their head at checkout, like: - what happens if I don't like it? - is sending it back gonna cost me? - when does it show up? 4. Then a few smaller things that make a big difference when you add them up - Hide your discount code field behind a "more options" dropdown. An empty coupon box in front of someone with no coupon is basically an invitation to go google "[your brand] discount code", & a lot of them never come back - Use ONE name field instead of first + last (people type their full name into the first box, get an error, & get annoyed) - Give them a progress bar (address → shipping → payment) with little green checkmarks as they fill each field in. Gamifying the checkout like this is a very simple way to dopamine hack some incentive into it - Then try to avoid all pre-purchase upsells. It's just unnecessary friction when you can upsell them post-purchase (which has higher take rate as well) 5. Final (but very important) note Everything I’ve gone through here are points of friction & anxiety. But there’s another part to this as well: Motivation. & increasing the motivation people have to get your product is by far the most impactful way to increase CVR. This is done through good pre-sell conversion (good pre-sell & product pages), so I’m gonna link a few articles in the comments under this post on how to increase motivation if you want to really understand this & thereby make a **** ton more money. Now, you of course can't get abandoned carts to 0% since a large portion of them are just people looking around & saving products, but you can decrease it significantly. If you implement all of this I guarantee you will see a very significant decrease in abandoned carts & a big increase CVR & in profit per visitor. Avoidable abandoned carts are very expensive in the grand scheme of things.

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  Ahmed Almakhzanji (@a_makhzanji) reported 31 minutes ago

  @alihadad90 @PayPal @AnthropicAI Anthropic AI supports Libya and accepts payments from Libyan cards (at least my ATIB mastercard). Paypal is a different issue. But I speculate that they need a well-regulated environment and strong judicial system to operate. Today, both are shaky.

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  𝔄𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔞 𝔇𝔢𝔦 ✝️🇻🇦⚜️ (@assignedgoy) reported 34 minutes ago

  @DoofyOfficial @CENTCOM ill paypal you $25 if you can tell me what the issue between israel and iran is about

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  ☆nermiko☆ (@tamargirl25) reported 40 minutes ago

  I really want to start taking commissions, but there's one problem... I don't have PayPal yet. 💔 I'm saving up for my dream iPad and Procreate, so hopefully I'll be able to open commissions in the future. For now, I'm just going to keep practicing and improving my art. 💪✨

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  Beyres (@Beyrestt) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Safaricom_Care paypal to mpesa is still not working, please solve it