PayPal, SchmayPal! - Alternatives?
Having recently received my renewed (Canadian) credit card, I was asked by Paypal to update my info, including my billing address.
Though my Canadian financial institution has no issue w/ me using a US billing address as long as I am a Canadian citizen, Paypal sees things otherwise and, for security reasons*, they will not allow me to link my Canadian Paypal account to a US address.
Great... :/
Their solution - close my account and open a new, US one w/ my US address. Which I'm not sure I'll be able to link to my Canadian bank account, because they weren't clear about that.
At any rate, I guess I shouldn't worry about that as for the time being, I can't seem to close my current account due to some pending payment authorization. Odd because the last transaction occurred 2 weeks ago. Status according to their own site: completed.
So I wrote them for a third time and I'm waiting for an update...
So I started thinking - there need to be alternatives, simple one, to transfer money from peer to peer. Online shopping isn't a big concern at this point anyway.
Any idea?
*for security reason - that was one of the expressions our agents were taught to use in call center for just about any and everything which would have required more serious explanations or simply couldn't be justified... It was sort of a running joke among us.
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