Friday, January 04, 2008

Pay Pal Woes

I want to sell something on eBay -- my first time. Before I can post an ad for my old Tivo, however, I needed to make sure I had a pay pal account so I can received payment. No problem, right? Wrong. I've used pay pal only a handful of times in the last few years, years in which I have moved a lot, switched phone numbers a lot, and had a few different email addresses and credit cards. Pay pal made it impossible to create a new account, because I was already registered, and it also made it impossible for me to figure out my old log on information so I could access the system.

Stephen got to "hear" me vent over IM while I was straightening this all out:

10:51 AM dewstephen: hey
10:52 AM me: sup
i'm having problems with pay pal
10:53 AM dewstephen: oh yeah? whatup
me: well i already had an account, so they wouldn't let me register for a new one
dewstephen: no way to get access to the old one?
me: but i don't have enough old information to get the email address and password for my old one
dewstephen: call them?
me: like i've tried my last few addresses and stuff
yeah - that's the next step
10:54 AM dewstephen: can you call? btw, haha, they are in the adjacent building to freescale.. lol
want me to walk over there?
:)
10:55 AM me: :)



11:50 AM dewstephen: so what up in denver? you doing anything outside of cleaning up the house?
11:51 AM me: i've been out a few times
11:52 AM dewstephen: when do you start work?


11:57 AM me: I F***ING HATE PAY PAL
12:01 PM i set up pay pal for the journal at law school and had a similar headache inducing conversation with their customer service then
12:02 PM they really need to revamp their system
dewstephen: you don't even know the half of it
their legal agreement you sign is really restrictive for the customer
there are a lot of websites devoted to how paypal are a**holes
12:04 PM me: like i couldn't remember when i last used it, or what email address i used. and i confirmed my old addresses, etc. and they wouldn't f***ing give me what email address i need to submit to figure out my password
12:05 PM then they said they would send me an email with a new link that would allow me to re-register
12:06 PM but it's just my most recent pay pal receipt
and i asked if there was a way i could call back to talk to him specifically and not have to wait 10 minutes on hold, and he said call back at 5pm pacific time
wait 6 hours so you don't have to wait 10 minutes
f**k them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12:11 PM OK - now it says enter credit card type, when there is no space or pull down menu to enter type




12:16 PM me: then i offered to verify using my phone number and it asked me to input the last 4 digits of some phone number that's not even mine
12:17 PM dewstephen: lame, lame lame
12:19 PM me: i finally figured out what address, phone number, email, and credit card i used, and that's not even helping
i better f***ing get 200 for my tivo after all this crap


12:24 PM dewstephen: haha, sorry
12:26 PM me: now i can't even send them a bitchy email while i'm on hold because you have f***ing log on before you can do that
dewstephen: that's lame he told you to call back....
12:27 PM me: i should have stayed on the line until i got the helpful email he was supposedly composing
but honestly i'd rather talk to someone else, he was not particularly helpful
12:29 PM have you ever listened to this episode of This American Life about the woman stuck on hold with MCI for forever
dewstephen: no!
dam...
me: it's really good
that's how i feel now, though my situation is not as extreme
12:31 PM dewstephen: customer service these days is just terrible

s
12:41 PM me: ok - problem solved (knock on wood)
you'll never guess what they had me do to sign up for a new account
12:42 PM i had to sign up using a fake email address, a gmail.net address, so it would let me create the account
then i had to go into my profile and add my real email address
and delete the fake one
12:54 PM dewstephen: nice, smooth move.

I really curse like a sailor when I'm on hold. :)

Here's the link to eBay, just in case anyone is interested in bidding on my Tivo.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

i hope it's all worth the $200 :)

-S

Laura said...

I know which This American Life you're talking about. That story was truly horrifying. But at least nobody owes you money.

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