Question about using Pay Pal

[doddg]

I have a friend, Ben (YankeeDollar) who wants to pay his yearly Site Supporter $20 fee.

He doesn't have PayPal & has to send a check to TX, which takes time to get processed.

Can I use my PayPal account to pay his Site Supporter $20 yearly fee?

 

[WebSnyper]

I would think you could use any PayPal account as long as one was logged into the proper INGO account (the one being paid for) when purchasing.

 

[***Ironhead***]

I have a friend, Ben (YankeeDollar) who wants to pay his yearly Site Supporter $20 fee.

He doesn't have PayPal & has to send a check to TX, which takes time to get processed.

Can I use my PayPal account to pay his Site Supporter $20 yearly fee?

I thought you could “checkout” as a guest. Meaning you don’t have to have a paypal account. Maybe it has changed.

 

[doddg]

I would think you could use any PayPal account as long as one was logged into the proper INGO account (the one being paid for) when purchasing.

I guess that would mean if I were at Ben's house and he went to the payment option, enter my PP information.

 

[doddg]

I thought you could “checkout” as a guest. Meaning you don’t have to have a paypal account. Maybe it has changed.

Ben must've been told or thinks for some reason that to "check out as a guest," you have to send a check to Texas.
That is what I understand he is telling me.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I guess that would mean if I were at Ben's house and he went to the payment option, enter my PP information.

NO. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD!

Checkout as a guest and use a credit card. Thats all. No PP account needed. (unless he wants the money to come directly out of his checking account, then he does)

 

[Cameramonkey]

Ben must've been told or thinks for some reason that to "check out as a guest," you have to send a check to Texas.
That is what I understand he is telling me.

To send a check to TX you just send the check with your screen name on it. But only as a last resort with the express direction of TK,

 

[doddg]

NO. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD!

Checkout as a guest and use a credit card. Thats all. No PP account needed. (unless he wants the money to come directly out of his checking account, then he does)

I will tell Ben.
I know he's adamantly opposed to the concept of PayPal,
&
perhaps he doesn't want to put his credit card information online because he's old and old people like to do things the old way, ha ha!

 

[doddg]

Cameramonkey posted:
To send a check to TX you just send the check with your screen name on it.
But only as a last resort with the express direction of TK.

Just got off the phone with Ben & he told me last year he sent a check to the address that was listed on INGO for payment, but it came back to him (old/wrong address).
He found out the correct updated address & resent the $20.
However, he lost that address, & wants to verify the correct address anyway, after his experience last year.
I was correct in assuming he doesn't put is credit card/bank info out on the web.
Those darn old people, haha!

Who is "TK," to get "express direction of," before sending a check?

 

[doddg]

By the way, just to defend Ben's lateness in getting this done since it was to have been renewed in June, his wife was hospitalized & he has been otherwise distracted.
Not to worry, she's at home now recovering normally, thank God!

 

[WebSnyper]

Cameramonkey posted:
To send a check to TX you just send the check with your screen name on it.
But only as a last resort with the express direction of TK.

Just got off the phone with Ben & he told me last year he sent a check to the address that was listed on INGO for payment, but it came back to him (old/wrong address).
He found out the correct updated address & resent the $20.
However, he lost that address, & wants to verify the correct address anyway, after his experience last year.
I was correct in assuming he doesn't put is credit card/bank info out on the web.
Those darn old people, haha!

Who is "TK," to get "express direction of," before sending a check?

Putting a check in the mail is probably more of a risk these days than using credit card, especially since credit card is fraud protected. As long as one has alerts on transactions and isn't using a debit card, I'd recommend it.

 

[doddg]

Putting a check in the mail is probably more of a risk these days than using credit card, especially since credit card is fraud protected. As long as one has alerts on transactions and isn't using a debit card, I'd recommend it.

Good Points!
I do the alerts for anything over $1 since I know frauds run a small "test" amount sometimes to test the waters.
I've gotten 3 am alerts someone using my credit card to pay for airport car rentals & car parts, 6 different charges, & I got up 3:30 am, called the CC company & it was over by 4 am.
I slept better, haha!

 

[doddg]

Yea!!!

texkev: Administrator, Staff member, Administrator & all around helpful person, has solved the issue.
He had me PayPal his INGO account (if I understood correctly), & has already restored Ben's account, since Ben couldn't use the "conversations."

This all started last evening when Ben couldn't use "conversations" to contact someone he'd been talking with about buying a Savage 223.
Ben was using me to communicate with the seller since he couldn't by exchanging cell numbers, after I texted him through conversations.

Ben just called & said he just picked up the 223 clear up North on 116th St. after seller drove from
Ft Wayne area.
Ben couldn't travel far b/c he has to stay close to home b/c of the wife.

All in all, a day where everything ended up well!
For me also, b/c I'm taking a MC run toward Greenfield to pick up yet another .22LR pistol I picked up in the Classifieds just b/c I've never had that model before, haha!
It won't be a keeper, but I don't mind a good plinker if the price is right, haha!

 

[***Ironhead***]

I will tell Ben.
I know he's adamantly opposed to the concept of PayPal,
&
perhaps he doesn't want to put his credit card information online because he's old and old people like to do things the old way, ha ha!

I feel the same way about PayPal, so I understand how he feels.
Just curious why there isn’t a direct payment method with a site this big? Obviously I don’t understand how all this works.