Gregory's Server@simon
I’m willing to pay for things by credit card iff:
* cash & crypto are not options
* the payment processor is not Paypal
I ate in a restaurant recently & in a rare circumstance cash was not an option for me. So I paid by card. Then the receipt mentioned some #Paypal subsidiary. I was so disgusted to find that paypal snagged my payment details & benefited from something I did despite being offline in a brick&mortar shop. I was tricked into going against my #boycott.
Anyway, whenever I’m paying online by credit card, I always check to see if they also accept Paypal, which then triggers me to do some deeper checks on whether my visa/mc/amex payment will traverse Paypal systems. If yes, I walk.
@batalanto @simon @adam @BrianSmith950 it has its advantages. I prefer paying by paypal instead of card because at least my card details can't be stolen. Happened to me before and it was very inconvenient. That I have to put up with privacy invasion because of this just shows that we don't have any strong European competitors to paypal 😓