posted on September 3, 2008 11:26:43 AM new
My son is visiting, he has a couple of eBay auctions that ended & are paid. He would like to mail the packages on the way home so he wants to go into HIS PayPal account on MY computer & print the postage. Would this be OK or would it cause a problem or should you only access your PayPal account from your own computer.
I don't see where it matters, but I'm just not sure.
posted on September 3, 2008 02:58:17 PM new
Should be fine. I used Ken's computer while we were camping and all was well.
Cheryl
Whitman said she and McCain share a philosophy of scaling back the role of government. a point of view partly shaped by her EBay experience. "The EBay model is very Republican in its essence -- it's about making a small number of rules and getting out of the way while not overtaxing the community," she said.
posted on September 3, 2008 03:08:44 PM new
I think it should be fine as long as you never have bid on each other's auctions.
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posted on September 3, 2008 04:06:44 PM new
I would never do that. I won't allow other family members to sign onto ebay or PayPal from my computer. The accounts will be tied together forever by the ebay/PayPal systems.
posted on September 3, 2008 04:16:52 PM new
It's a bad idea to allow others to use your personal computer for PayPal transactions as they might be tied together for ever more. Should a friend or associate of your son's PayPal account be suspended or terminated for "suspicious activity" then his account and your's will be possibly tainted and "guilt by association" will occur. Don't do it...
If you are on a fixed IP then definately don't allow it.
There are numerous technical ways to avoid PayPal tying two accounts such as deleting PayPal/eBay cookies but these are not so simple.
posted on September 3, 2008 05:21:27 PM new
It used to work deleting cookies on your PC.
But Ebay now has a database of cookies ,it saves past cookies so even they may be deleted on your pc,they are saved on Ebay data base.
If your son packages are domestic first class mail,he could write the label by hand and use a green DC slip,it would cost him more than 18 cents,it is like 60 cents?
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Gulag-a Soviet era concentration camp is now reincarnated as EBAY with 13,000 rules.
posted on September 3, 2008 06:58:37 PM new
When I said my son was visiting I guess it sounded like he was staying with me. Actually he lives about 5 miles away & stops over occasionally.
He thought since he was here he would print out his postage, using HIS PayPal account, not mine.
I have a large supply of bubble envelopes & he had the coins he sells with him so it wasn't a bad idea except I wasn't sure if he should be using my computer.
I knew I would get the right answers here & I did. Thanks again.
