AFAIK, the rules regarding VISA, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. in this land
are pretty much the same as in the US. We have much the same legal
system as the UK and Canada when it comes to these sort of things and
people there seem to be able to get confirmed.
RThis was PP's more detailed explanation -
"We do apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
PayPal uses
an Automated Verification System to verify credit card billing addresses
that are entered on the system. If a credit card billing address
passes the
Automated Verification System check, the credit card billing address
will
be confirmed. Please be advised that PayPal Australian account
holders can
not have a confirmed address as card issuers in Australia do not have
the
facility yet to do the Automated Verification System. As much as we
would
like our account holders to have a confirmed address, this matter would
depend still from your credit issuer."
I treated this nonsense with the contempt it deserves and invited the
to put me in contact with someone with a genuine answer or someone
prepared to admit that Paypal is giving me limited service for a
premium price.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 10/05/2006, at 10:18 AM, Jeff Keller wrote:
>
> I think the confirmed address business is a result of US credit
> card laws,
> rather than any favoritism PayPal wants to bestow. In the US if the
> credit
> card was stolen or the number used by someone else, the credit card
> company
> looses the money rather than PayPal. Probably the non-confirmable
> addresses
> are because PayPal might be held liable for fraudulent credit card
> use by
> that country's legal system. yabe and PayPal are highly optimised
> to collect
> a fee without any risk to themselves.
>
> -jeff
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 02:13 PM 09/05/2006, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Garth,
>>
>> my UK address is also paypal confirmed.
>> So, it's not only about the States.
>
> Christos:
>
> As I noted in my earlier message, there are exceptions. But I quote
> from the e-mail I received from PayPal's "customer service" when I
> asked about this:
>
> [snip]
>
> "A Confirmed Shipping Address is either an address at which you
> receive your
> credit card statements, and is checked by our automated system to
> verify
> the billing address of the card, or an address that PayPal has
> confirmed
> through an *Alternate Address Confirmation process. Also, in
> general, most
> non-U.S. addresses cannot be confirmed at this time... *The
> Alternate Address Confirmation process is currently not available to
> non-U.S. accounts."
>
> Which is another way of saying "In general, if you're outside of the
> U.S., we'd be happy to continue taking your money, but PISS OFF if
> you actually want us to get off of our pasty wide arses and do
> something to make your experience with us easier."
>
> I've been using PayPal for six years with my AMEX card as the card
> via which payment occurs. The billing address is correct and matches
> the address in PayPal. AMEX, last time I checked, wasn't some
> two-bit unreliable operation unheard of in the Western Hemisphere. I
> have a history at PayPal...
>
> ...but not, apparently, enough of one to actually, y'know, TRUST
> me. Just enough of one to keep processing my payments and their fees.
>
>
> Garth
>
> Bitter? Me?
>
>
>
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