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#@!* and so on!

One does one’s best to avoid using Paypal (may their name be stamped into oblivion) whenever possible but occasionally one must make a purchase or perhaps even a donation and the person selling or receiving is only taking Paypal.

So one acquiesces. Only to recall that one has switched credit cards in the interim (when is the last time one was reduced to to interacting with the Paypalitocracy?).

Did you know: adding a new credit card to one’s Paypal account (or switching to a new card) requires the same ridiculous rigamarole as signing on the first time where one waits for authorization numbers in one’s next bill and so on.

It also turns out that one is charged a dollar for this privilege. And if one inadvertently spells “street” in one’s address “St” instead of “ST” or vice versa those Paypallapaloozy cads conveniently misunderstand and charge you another one.

All in all one is charged the sum of $1 three separate times in one day. A paltry sum, to be sure, but also unearned. Even though one decided halfway through that one hates Paypal too much to complete the transaction and arranged to write a check instead, one is still charged for one idiocy and two misspellings.

One (this one) may also make the dire error of phoning the noxious Paypalists as a matter of principle. After half an hour of chirpy computer messages one converses with a half-wit. Let it be said for the record that Paypal are cheats and scoundrels, and ought to be called Unpaypalatable. Or maybe Reprehensipal.