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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.12.18

One of the things we're eventually going to do with our business is collect payments via credit card. We won't be doing business with paypal.

I tried contacting paypal about creating a business account. It went badly. The were totally indifferent to answering my questions, and in fact three support staff all answered questions that were wildly different to mine. It took a week to even get that far, so I gave up.

Then today I read a harrowing tale of what it's like to use paypal as a payment transaction service if you're running a business. Yiiikes.

rand()m quote

I think natural selection must have greatly rewarded the ability to reassure oneself in a crisis with complete bullshit.

—Bob Harris