posted on September 13, 2000 03:11:07 PM new
Here's one more way Pay Pal is getting you guys and I'll bet alot of you don't even know it...
When you log onto your Pay Pal accounts, click on the REFERRALS tab. Scroll to the bottom to the View your REFERRAL LOG link.
I have three referrals in my log that say PENDING, the oldest one is from August 23rd. I never got the $5.00 for these, never even got an email saying I was entitled to (pending) bonuses.
From the FAQs and Refer-a-Friend Terms of Agreement:
"When do I receive my $5 bonus?
You will receive each $5 Referral bonus after your friend COMPLETES VERIFICATION of their account. Receiving bonus rewards depends on HOW QUICKLY your friend registers for a PayPal account and completes the BONUS REQUIREMENTS"
I looked into this further and found out that the person signing up with you as a referral must now VERIFY A BANK ACCOUNT before you'll ever see your "pending" 5 bucks. Buyers have no need to give Pay Pal their bank account numbers. Most are using their credit cards to pay for auctions and note:
"Bonus Period. Confinity reserves the right to discontinue the Bonus for any reason, at any time and for any duration at its sole discretion, and without notice."
I doubt we'll ever see those promised bonuses, except in our PENDING logs!
posted on September 13, 2000 03:22:48 PM new
G'Evening,
I have 10 bonus in the pending stage, 2 date back to Febuary but most interesting 5 are from the last 10 days....
posted on September 13, 2000 03:35:25 PM new
Most all of my pending referrals are since 8/18- around the time they changed the verification process. Pretty crummy.
posted on September 13, 2000 05:20:24 PM new
"Pending" was started when "Verification of account" started, and was CLEARLY EXPLAINED on the PayPal site, and also by Damon, on the boards...
posted on September 13, 2000 05:58:45 PM new
Hi Shoshanah,
I never saw an announcement about that at Pay Pal and if you were viewing the largest thread in the ebay outlook today, neither did many other sellers. I found the "pending" bonuses in my referral log today just a short while after I found out about all the other great changes in effect.
Regardless of whether or not Pay Pal told us they'd only pay when and if buyers were verified, there is still no acceptable reason for them to hold back the sign-up bonuses we were promised and we earned by promoting their site in our auction listings. Funny, they have no problem charging the credit cards of unverified users, just with the part about paying the ebay parties that helped them gain their 3 million users.
I consider this just one more good reason not to use Pay Pal again and I doubt I will.
