digital music/video
12/10/2004, 12:25pm, EST
Friday, December 10th
Apple accepts Paypal at iTMS, offers song promo
Apple and PayPal today announced that the iTunes Music Store in the US will now accept PayPal for purchases of music downloads, audiobooks and gift certificates. Starting today, iTunes Music Store purchases can be funded through PayPal's virtual wallet, allowing customers to pay in the way they prefer, using a credit card, bank account or stored account balance. In conjunction with the announcement, Apple said that the first 500,000 customers to open a new iTunes account in the US using PayPal as their form of payment before March 31, 2005, will receive five free songs.
"We are thrilled that PayPal users can now buy their music on the world's number one online music store," said Todd Pearson, general manager of PayPal's Merchant Services. "PayPal's virtual wallet offers iTunes customers the convenience of paying in the way they prefer."
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Anyone else have problems choosing PP as their iTunes payment method?
Guess I'll stick with gift cards/certificates for the time being.
Paypal requires a credit card too.
It's about children having unlimited ability to spend.
Debit cards and 'gift cards' have preset spending limits...for some odd reason parents have allowed children to have paypal accounts, and those accounts are backed by real credit cards.
Now children can make the decision to borrow money to pay for the music habit.
I don't blame apple, but parents...get wise to this!
I would think Apple would choose it's partners more wisely. I fear this is gonna turn againts them. If a problem happens, knowing PayPal's reputation for "chargeback", who is gonna be stuck in the middle of a court conflict?
Note: I used PayPal only once and was satisfied with the service, so it's not a personal vendetta or hate agains them. I'm just surprised that Apple wants to associate iteself with a company known to scam its customer and have horrible service. Especially if this company deals with financial transactions!
To find more info, just search Google for something like "paypal fraud lawsuit" and you will find many sites dedicated to warn people against PayPal. Here's a few links:
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
http://www.aboutpaypal.org/paypal_lawsuit
http://www.paypalsucks.com/credit-card-waiver.shtml
http://paypalsucks.com/faqs.shtml
I have successfully used Paypal for years...almost since day one. NEVER had a problem.