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  meg ★ on tour! (@JustDrive_Meg) reported 2 minutes ago

  Bringing it down to $25!!! PayPal G&S Only!

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  Aishwarya Raghavan (@ashragh95) reported 4 minutes ago

  Depends on tax compliance as well Opt for an MOR like paddle or lemon squeezy etc if you don't want to handle tax compliance or have global clients that tax compliance becomes complicated If tax compliance is not an issue, then opt for payment gateways like stripe if you have integration knowledge otherwise paypal

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  Kevin (@WiFiTech) reported 4 minutes ago

  @pbeisel Now you have my curiosity peaked. In the 80s I was trying to use a spinning reflecting lens to redirect a pulsed high intensity light beam to multiple targets. Nobody would tell us why, but it was during the Reagan, star wars era. I was toying with the idea of something similar to a daisy ball in a typewriter. Cooling was my biggest issue. I was not great with thermodynamics. I focused more on RF, as data transport without wires capitivated my attention. The late 90's on were my playground. Captive portal tech was where I shined. Chillispot, Linksys, Aironet, worked with Boingo, PayPal, Direcway and IP3 and Barricade. Sorry for the block Google. Published in Women's Business Journal a week before they did. Ouch! all that money on dark fiber. Fun times! Oops, distracted by the happy memories.

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  دکتر مهندس فتحی (@i_sundog) reported 6 minutes ago

  @DrMichaelBonner will try to secure a copy for you through friends visiting if all else doesn't work? following explains how to directly purchase Farsi translation of the book- sorry a bit lengthy, eh: sanctions heavily affect ability to purchase the Farsi translation directly from Iranian platforms if you are located in the United States. US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control enforces strict comprehensive sanctions on Iran's banking n financial sectors. This creates significant practical barriers, even though the law technically makes exceptions for books. 1. The Informational Exception (The Legality): under the Berman Amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act importation n exportation of "informational materials" -including books, films, n music - are exempt fr US sanctions. •its completely legal for you to own, read, or import a physical or digital copy of this Farsi translation into the US. •You are not violating US federal law simply by buying a piece of literature. 2. Banking Blockade is a Practical Problem while buying the book is perfectly legal, paying for it fr US is nearly impossible through normal channels. •Iranian online stores like Digikala, Taaghche, or IranKetab only accept Iranian bank cards connected to the local Shatab (شتاب) network. •no International Processors: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, n PayPal operate in Iran n will block any transaction attempted on an Iranian website. •IP Blocks: many Iranian e-commerce networks completely block incoming web traffic or payment requests originating fr US IP addresses due to cybersecurity defenses. Workarounds to Purchase the Book Fr the US includes 3 choices: •Diaspora Persian Bookstores: Specialist physical n online bookstores based in the US, Canada, or Europe regularly import shipments of legal info materials fr Tehran. Check retailers like Ketab Corp (Los Angeles - aka Tehrangeles, they may have it, or find out if online Persian book importers can order a copy of آخرین امپراتوری ایران fr Mehrandish Publications for you. •Family or Friends in Iran: is easiest method is to have a contact inside Iran buy the physical book locally or purchase the digital version on Taaghche using an Iranian bank card, n then send you the login details or ship the physical copy via international mail networks. if other methods didn't work for you, let me know i will pursue this option •Third-Party Proxy Services: some international diaspora agencies specialize in paying for Iranian digital services on behalf of expats, though these often incur high service fees n operate in a legal gray area regarding money transfers.

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 6 minutes ago

  The eBay check that bought PayPal in 2002 funded the founders of Tesla, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir. The deal was announced on July 8, 2002, on the front page of the New York Times business section. The article you are looking at is that story. It was written by Matt Richtel. It ran 900 words and treated the transaction as a routine consolidation between two internet companies that had been circling each other for years. The purchase price was one and a half billion dollars in eBay stock. Negotiated and closed in a week. eBay had spent the previous two years trying to build its own competing payment product called Billpoint, had put thirty five million dollars into it as recently as March 2002, and gave up. On the day the acquisition closed, eBay announced Billpoint was being shut down. This is what losing to a better product looks like written into an acquisition announcement. The details in the article are the boring version of the story. The interesting version happened in the six months after. PayPal had about a hundred and fifty employees at the time of the sale. Fewer than thirty of them held meaningful equity. When the eBay stock cleared, most of those thirty people had between five and one hundred and eighty million dollars in liquid capital. They were mostly under thirty five years old. Almost none of them wanted to stay at eBay. Peter Thiel walked out with about fifty five million dollars and used it to co-found Palantir the following year and to start Founders Fund two years after that. Elon Musk walked out with about one hundred and eighty million and put most of it into SpaceX, which he had founded three months earlier, and into Tesla, where he led the Series A in 2004. Reid Hoffman took his exit money and started LinkedIn in December 2002. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were engineers at PayPal who left with smaller checks and used them to start YouTube in 2005. Max Levchin took his money and eventually founded Affirm. Jeremy Stoppelman left and started Yelp. David Sacks left and started Yammer. Roelof Botha left PayPal's CFO seat and joined Sequoia, where he became one of the most successful venture investors of his generation. That group started to get called the PayPal Mafia around 2007 when Fortune ran a cover story on them, all standing around in Godfather suits. The combined value of the companies they founded, seeded, or ran after PayPal is over three trillion dollars. The eBay check that made all of that possible was a footnote in the 2002 New York Times business section. The reason the pattern is worth studying is that it is not really about the money. Twenty five people getting rich on the same day is a common story. It has happened a hundred times at other IPOs and acquisitions. The unusual thing is that this specific twenty five went on to found the next generation of the industry that had just paid them. Most exits produce quiet millionaires who buy houses in Palo Alto and take a decade off. PayPal's exit produced a wave of founders who started their next company within eighteen months. The best guess for why is not the capital. It is the confidence and the network. When you have built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, and everyone in your closest circle also built one thing that worked and cashed out at thirty two, the psychological cost of starting the next one drops to almost zero. You do not need to raise from strangers. Your first ten investors are your former colleagues. Your first hire is somebody who used to sit two desks away. I keep this article printed on my wall as a reminder that the deals that look small in the moment are the ones that seed the next twenty years. The check was one and a half billion dollars. The return, measured across the next two decades of companies, was closer to three trillion.

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  mamí (@r0sequartzmami) reported 6 minutes ago

  hey my loves, i no longer will be using PayPal as a method to receive payments because paypal keeps holding my money & giving me problems with my card. I will update you guys on the new forms of payment so you guys can have a swift booking experience 💖

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  Z Domainer (@ZDomainer) reported 7 minutes ago

  Hi how can I contact @PayPal support. I couldn't solve the problem through help center

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  leafs (@dannysleafs) reported 7 minutes ago

  @lql_00 Gosh that sucks, really sorry to hear that. This is seriously not okay at all, so many I heard having this issue unfortunately. I hope you can get it resolved asap. If you paid with PayPal under 6 months, try filing a refund through PayPal!!

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  Jess💪🏻(Tonga Girlie Taskforce) (@imjess_saiyan) reported 10 minutes ago

  Truly baffled yet again at how PayPal is randomly defaulting to my abusive ex's address First and last time was June 14. I've used PayPal several times since with no issues. Then just now his ******* address shows as the default on my purchase. It's not in my PayPal account at all anywhere ????? I cut that piece of **** out of my life in 2013. Like can you please not

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  Brandon Crotti/Steelers/Yankees/Lakers (@BrandonCro96736) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal I used my verification code still does not let me in I cannot contact help because I can't sign in

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  Austere Grim (@austeregrim) reported 12 minutes ago

  @pb_steele If I use the paypal card I have to make sure I only do one large purchase or at least one month, since you can’t assign what purchase gets paid down with additional principal payments… or I’ll have to pay off the 0% int purchases all at once, so they don’t pop.

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  Dave Gambrill (@gambrill) reported 12 minutes ago

  I’ve had a business idea running through my head for a couple of years. It’s a short-term SMS marketing concept targeted at a VERY specific group of people with a very specific need. I was thinking about it again this morning and realized something: The idea hasn’t really changed. My ability to actually build the damn thing has. A few years ago, testing this would have been a giant pain in the ***. I would have needed some combination of a web developer, designer, copywriter, database, landing page, SMS platform, payment processor, automation software, and probably somebody technical enough to make all of those things talk to each other. Suddenly, a little experiment becomes a PROJECT. And that’s before I even know if anybody wants the thing. Today, I can sit down with ChatGPT Work, Codex, Claude Code, CoWork, or another capable AI tool and say: “Here’s an idea I’ve had for a couple of years. There was too much friction to build it before. What would it take to create an MVP (minimum viable product), basically the simplest version I could put in front of real people and test?” Then we can start building. I’ll probably still need something like Twilio for SMS and Stripe or PayPal for payments. That’s fine. The difference is that the AI can quarterback the whole thing. It can help build the landing page or lightweight app, handle the database, write the copy, connect APIs and MCPs, set up automations, and stitch the specialized tools together. That changes the economics of experimenting with a business idea. You can vibe code a workable version, put it in front of actual humans, see what happens, learn, and iterate. If people actually want it, THEN you can decide how much you want to invest in making it better and scaling it. Which got me thinking… How many good ideas are sitting in our mental graveyards because they were too expensive, too technical, or just too much of a pain in the *** to build when we first had them? Maybe it’s worth digging a few of those back up. Grab one and tell your favorite AI tool: “I had this idea a few years ago, but there was too much friction to build it. Given what’s available today, how could we create a simple version and test it?” Some of those old ideas might make a hell of a lot more sense in 2026. 👊🏻

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  Alla Manshin| Tangem (@aliihsanozturkk) reported 15 minutes ago

  @bksolomon That sounds like a payment/order synchronization issue not evidence that the wallet itself is unsafe. If PayPal shows the payment completed but no Tangem order was created, shoot me a DM so I can trace the payment & arrange a refund Do you have the PayPal transaction ID?

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  denreed (@idenreed) reported 17 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hi @AskPayPal, I can't log into PayPal. Password + email OK, but no access to old phone (Georgia → Ukraine). Email code worked once, then still asks SMS. Can't reach support without login. Help regain access/update number please. Thanks.

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  Froglet 🐸 (@froglet80) reported 18 minutes ago

  @AgnostikGnostik ko-fi sends it as payment for goods and services. you just need to create a business paypal account. you can donit right in your existing account and you'll have 2 profiles with one login. no extra id verification required.