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Received: Mon Feb 16 08:36:48 2009
The first time I ran into PayPal's spending limits, I begged & pleaded with our CFO to give me a way to verify our account. She said no. That's when I discovered that if you close your account, you can open another with the same charge card. It was a pain, but it worked. If PayPal hasn't changed their system, that could help.
The second time I hit the limits our CFO relented and gave me account information from a dormant account, but I had to assure her repeatedly that I would never actually use the account to make purchases. By then I think she already had a PayPal account for some of her needs and wasn't quite so nervous.
George Flexman
Manager, Order Service Section
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library
317-275-4716
fax: 317-269-5319
GFlexman_at_imcpl.org
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Received: Tue Feb 17 09:03:44 2009
I had this same problem. Although getting through to Paypal is not easy, it turns out they had us as a vendor and that is why they needed bank account information which of course I had no way of supplying. It was not quick or easy to straighten this out.
Hope this helps someone.
Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick
Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarian
Mina Rees Library
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Voice: 212-817-7056
FAX: 212-817-1650
jfitzpatrick_at_gc.cuny.edu
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Received: Tue Feb 17 17:58:04 2009
We use a university purchasing card. There is more protection against fraud with a purchasing card. Pay-Pal's rules are senseless and what's to protect you from Pay-Pal fraud? I would recommend requesting some sort of departmental purchasing card if you can.
A lot of the small international entities we do business with don't take credit cards or use Pay-Pal at all. In these cases we either 1) wire transfer directly to the vendor's account (costs us $25 more) or 2) have the local bank cut them a check in their currency (also costs us $25 more).
Not what you were hoping for, but an explanation of how we do business without Pay-Pal.
Marynelle Chew
Head, Technical Services
Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
55-220 Kulanui St. #1966
Laie, HI 96762
Ph: (808) 675-3863
Fax: (808) 675-3877
chewm_at_byuh.edu
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:19 AM
Subject: [ACQNET-L] PayPal Verification
There is an increasing need to use electronic funds transfer via PayPal to obtain library materials from small independent publishers here and abroad. Use of Ebay has also increased which depends heavily on PayPal for payment. Setting up a PayPal account is easy, but a non-verified PayPal account has a spending limit which when exhausted requires verification. There are a number of ways to become a verified PayPal user, but at the university level these options are less than attractive as they seem to involve giving PayPal a bank account number. I am interested in knowing if libraries have managed to obtain verified PayPal accounts and if so how they have managed to do so. Thank you.
Steve
Steven E. Thompson
Co-Leader Technical Services
Brown University Library
voice: (401) 863-2976
Fax: (401) 863-1272
email: steven_thompson_at_brown.edu
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