[OT] Paypal

*>I know that I will get a flame just for this inquiry, but here goes. *> *>I found an article on eBay that I bid on and rather than sending *>a Money Order, I thought I might try paypal? Can anyone *>please comment? It seems reasonable from the outside as *I think PayPal is a great idea. I agree, but I don't think it helps Jerome since he isn't in the US, and Paypal doesn't deal with either buyers nor sellers who don't have US Postal addresses. Jerome is in Canada, I should note, but I don't know if it's possible for him to get a US postal address just to use Paypal or not. I think the Paypal rules strictly state that you must be a *resident of the US*, and that a US postal address isn't good enough (though I'm not sure they could tell the difference.) (Certainly while I was living in Canada, having a US postal address and bank account helped me a lot with many financial issues.) There are other services that don't suffer from Paypal's problems - most noticably E-bay's Billpoint service, and Amazon's electronic payments - though of course the seller must sign up with these services as well as the buyer. Tim.