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That sounds about right. Disputes about the charges would also occur if a kid (or other "authorized user" of the card) buys something and the person whose name is on the account doesn't know about it. When they get the bill, they're going to say "WTF?" I didn't buy that!"
I've seen no indication that Paypal really gives a rat's ass what you buy using their service. They simply care about not getting stuck with the bill.
edited 20th Feb '12 6:15:12 PM by Madrugada
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Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Makes sense to me. Is there any factual information from a reliable source to back it up?
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Mm. Interesting.
~shrug~
Fiction is fiction, but it is within PayPal's rights to do what it's doing, insofar as I'm aware, so...
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People still buy erotica? All the free stuff on the internet not enough?
I see the Awesomeness.
Presumably they buy it with commissions so the smut they like keeps getting produced.
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I wonder what 'pseudo incest' is supose to be. Erotic fiction between second cousins?
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^ From the sounds of it, Not Blood Siblings.
edited 21st Feb '12 12:13:48 AM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Anyone remember when Amazon purged incest-related erotica from the site so as not to get in trouble with Paypal? It's been happening again, on a variety of other sites that use the service (like Bookstrand.) Some are voluntarily removing "incest, pseudo incest, rape, and bestiality", while others are instead switching away from Paypal.
To my knowledge, Paypal hasn't explained its actions. Some commentators are blaming a morality scare, but another commenter (not linked because site may be NSFW) reasons about it like so:
Now it was starting to make more sense. The credit card companies charge higher fees for these "high-risk" accounts because there is a higher rate of what they call "chargebacks." You know that protection on your credit card, where if you dispute the charge, you don't have to pay for it? Well they've determined that happens more with porn and gambling and other "high-risk" sites than others, so they're justified in charging more money to process payment for those sites.
Paypal doesn't want to have to pay Visa and MC for carrying "high risk" accounts on their books. You have to remember that Paypal is a middleman. Sites that carry high-risk material have to pay the high-risk costs of doing business. If you're going through Paypal, you don't have to pay that. Until Paypal catches you. And then they insist you take down your high-risk content or lose your account.
In other words, people are saying "I never purchased that porn!" and not getting charged for it, and Paypal is trying to avoid getting stuck with the bill.
Thoughts?
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful