It’s March, and you know what that means!
No, not March Madness (although that does count).
It means that you should be able to use PayPal in your local Home Depot now.
Back in January it was reported that PayPal did intend to exist as an in-store payment option in more than 2,000 Home Depot stores by this month.
If you’re a regular to your local Home Depot and have been there recently, post a comment on whether you’ve seen the PayPal payment option or not. And if you actually tried it, then yes, absolutely post a comment and tell everyone how good or not good the payment method worked out for you.
Now for those of you thinking, "Yep. That definitely qualifies as Worst Idea Ever, at least for 2012", don’t be so sure. PayPal at this point is not really unlike other means of electronic payment, save for the fact the method is slightly different. It’s just a different way of paying, which some of you may find convenient, especially if you use PayPal often.
And again, if you’ve tried it, post a comment on the experience using the PayPal payment method at the ‘Depot.
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I suppose if you do not have a credit card or a debit card then there may be an advantage to it.
With PayPal “mobile” at POS and “PayPal Here” merchants can expect the full package of PreyPal services: hard-wired “buyer protection”, funds holds, rolling reserves, and all the scamming buyers the criminal facilitator eBay has encouraged to crawl out of the woodwork—won’t that be fun for merchants, just like on eBay …
And, just for a laugh then, some comment on PayPal’s off-eBay products: “The New Way To Pay In-Store” (at Home Depot), PayPal Here, SmartPay, PayPal Digital Wallet, PayPal Debit MasterCard, PayPal Local and Watch With eBay …
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24611
And, when do we start calling eBay a payments company …
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24590
eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking
The City Council is examining a request to open a Louis Vuitton Handbags and retail shop at 11502 Middlebelt in the Livonia Crossroads shopping center on the southeast corner of Plymouth and Middlebelt roads.The council heard at a study session on Monday from Taylor Bond, president of Children’s Orchard, who wants to open a 7,500-square-foot Louis Vuitton Handbags Sale store at the site of the former Family Buggy restaurant, which was closed several years ago.
Read about it and weep, John Donahoe …
In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another perfectly logical extension to the real banks’ traditional, professional, payment processing systems (and you don’t have to ditch the plastic) …
Goodbye clunky PreyPal, I can’t say that it has been nice knowing you …
“When Do We Start Calling eBay A [Failed] Payments Company?”
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24590
And, just for a laugh then, some comment on PayPal’s off-eBay products: “The New Way To Pay In-Store” (at Home Depot), PayPal Here, SmartPay, PayPal Digital Wallet, PayPal Debit MasterCard, PayPal Local and Watch With eBay …
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24611
eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking