Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-25 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: I've used paypal on a couple of occasions several years ago and didn't have a problem but I've read/heard too many stories of them screwing people over to trust them with anything. I opened up a paypal account a few days ago to send a few bucks to someone else for a piece of software

RE: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-25 Thread nate
Mark A. Lewis wrote: >> I don't trust paypal with my real CC#. Yay for temporary numbers. > > What's to trust? They do anything unauthorized, call your CC company and let > them take care of it. That's the beauty of credit cards, your liability is > almost nothing. I guess it's more along the line

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/25 Kurt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Really? That's very interesting. Was his attempt via the centos.org website > or elsewhere? Another web site (he didn't give details). --Amos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Mark A. Lewis
> I don't trust paypal with my real CC#. Yay for temporary numbers. What's to trust? They do anything unauthorized, call your CC company and let them take care of it. That's the beauty of credit cards, your liability is almost nothing. ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread nate
Kurt Hansen wrote: > Can whomever setup the PayPal donation capability on centos.org give any > insight into whether credit card payments are blocked? Maybe one has to I'm not the maintainer of the site but I just submitted a few bucks via paypal using a temporary generated visa #, no problem. I

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread John R Pierce
Kurt Hansen wrote: Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. The error I got in both instances was: "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number."

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Kurt Hansen
John R Pierce wrote: Kurt Hansen wrote: I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Kurt Hansen
Amos Shapira wrote: 2008/11/24 Kurt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. I told my boss about this (our company is mainly in the online anti-fraud domain) and he said that

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/11/24 Kurt Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by > PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. I told my boss about this (our company is mainly in the online anti-fraud domain) and he said that it happened to him in the

Re: [CentOS] Trouble Donating on centos.org

2008-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
Kurt Hansen wrote: I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a Pay