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Title: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Newportnobby on July 03, 2020, 07:15:16 PM
I'm trying to send money to a fellow member via paypal and have been given an address beginning
paypal.me/.............
but paypal won't recognise the account.
Is it something I'm doing wrong or them? Usually I find the paypal account name is an e mail address
:confused2:
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: ntpntpntp on July 03, 2020, 07:24:53 PM
I've always done it by email address.  Ask them for that.
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: ntpntpntp on July 03, 2020, 07:27:39 PM
Ah, I think you're supposed to put that link they've given you into a browser, it should then ask you to log in to make the payment? 

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-me (https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-me)


Never done it this way myself
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Newportnobby on July 03, 2020, 07:41:00 PM
Quote from: ntpntpntp on July 03, 2020, 07:27:39 PM
Ah, I think you're supposed to put that link they've given you into a browser, it should then ask you to log in to make the payment? 

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-me (https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-me)


Never done it this way myself

It seems paypal.me is a business account and not a personal account. If I put the link into the browser it takes me to paypal and when I sign in and attempt payment the result is as before which is NO NYET NEIN NON etc
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Papyrus on July 03, 2020, 09:23:25 PM
Spookily, I have just sent money to two paypal.me accounts today. They were both for musicians/bands doing online gigs and asking folks to donate 'ticket' money. I found that, if you open the paypal.me page and click on 'log in' at the top right-hand corner, it takes you to your normal Paypal page.

Don't know whether this answers your question or not, Mick.

Cheers,

Chris
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Newportnobby on July 04, 2020, 09:15:25 AM
Quote from: Papyrus on July 03, 2020, 09:23:25 PM
Spookily, I have just sent money to two paypal.me accounts today. They were both for musicians/bands doing online gigs and asking folks to donate 'ticket' money. I found that, if you open the paypal.me page and click on 'log in' at the top right-hand corner, it takes you to your normal Paypal page.

Don't know whether this answers your question or not, Mick.

Cheers,

Chris

That's exactly what I did from the link Nick posted, Chris but, once in my normal account, it wouldn't let me pay to a 'pay.me' address, insisting I needed a name, e mail address or mobile phone number or some 11 didgit number ???. I know there's nothing wrong with my paypal account as I've sent money to someone else since.
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Philip. on July 04, 2020, 11:34:51 AM
@Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) You could send it to me instead, I'll spend it for you  :D ;)
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Papyrus on July 04, 2020, 03:03:25 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on July 04, 2020, 09:15:25 AM

That's exactly what I did from the link Nick posted,

This advice was brought to you by Papyrus Information Supply Service, purveyors of the bleedin' obvious...  :-[

Cheers,

Chris
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: dannyboy on July 04, 2020, 03:34:17 PM
Quote from: Philip. on July 04, 2020, 11:34:51 AM
@Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) You could send it to me instead, I'll spend it for you  :D ;)

Ignore @Philip. (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6180) Mick. I will not spend it. I will save it for you and let you have it back whenever you want, as long as you give me a bit of notice ......... say, 5 years.  ;)
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: chrism on July 04, 2020, 03:52:12 PM
Quote from: dannyboy on July 04, 2020, 03:34:17 PM
Quote from: Philip. on July 04, 2020, 11:34:51 AM
@Newportnobby (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=264) You could send it to me instead, I'll spend it for you  :D ;)

Ignore @Philip. (https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=profile;u=6180) Mick. I will not spend it. I will save it for you and let you have it back whenever you want, as long as you give me a bit of notice ......... say, 5 years.  ;)

Hehe, that's funnier than some of his so-called "jokes"  :D
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: jpendle on July 04, 2020, 06:34:46 PM
Quote from: Newportnobby on July 04, 2020, 09:15:25 AM
I know there's nothing wrong with my paypal account as I've sent money to someone else since.

Hi Mick,

Don't succumb to the blackmailers.
You don't need to send money to anyone.
Just tell them to publish the photo's and be d*mned

Whatever it was you did it can't be that bad  :laugh3:

John P
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Newportnobby on July 04, 2020, 09:40:25 PM
You don't want to know, John. You really do not want to know :no:
(What's more is, I don't want you to know either :angel:)
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: guest8885 on August 31, 2020, 09:48:38 PM
i tried to send £10 to ngf, but experienced the same problem
i dont like paypal so dont use it unless its paying at a checkout with no choice.
to many strange e-mails in the past when they were hacked.
if you think paypal is difficult try using bitcoin, still cant find the .062 of a bitcoin i brought two months ago for £500.
be lucky  :no:
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Ian Morton on August 31, 2020, 10:00:04 PM
Quote from: alanbell on August 31, 2020, 09:48:38 PM
if you think paypal is difficult try using bitcoin, still cant find the .062 of a bitcoin i brought two months ago for £500.
be lucky  :no:

Have you tried looking down the back of the sofa?
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Malc on September 01, 2020, 10:48:37 AM
Quote from: alanbell on August 31, 2020, 09:48:38 PM
if you think paypal is difficult try using bitcoin, still cant find the .062 of a bitcoin i brought two months ago for £500.
be lucky  :no:

Have you looked in that drawer in the kitchen that has all the odds 'n' ends in?
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Bealman on September 01, 2020, 11:05:50 AM
I look on our driveway, me, either that or the bushes down the side.

Usually where I find the front door key  :)
Title: Re: Making a paypal payment
Post by: Trainfish on September 01, 2020, 12:33:41 PM
Quote from: Bealman on September 01, 2020, 11:05:50 AM

Usually where I find the front door key  :)

I usually look in the front door as I have been known to unlock the front door and leave the key in the lock. This usually only happens on a Saturday night after falling out of the taxi, depositing my kebab all over the road and flinging my phone along the pavement and leaving it there. The wife is used to this now and usually stays up to clear up the debris while I slope off to bed. She's a good wife  :thumbsup: