Elsewhere on this website, I have a couple of articles about how one goes about trying for a career in Cartoon Voicework. The pieces are not too encouraging but I think they are accurate. As you'll see if you look at them, I pretty clearly ask people not to write me to ask that I […]
Well, the PayPal folks made good on their promise to fix things. What they did was to, with my permission, close down the PayPal account in question and merge its assets to another PayPal account I have. (I am now receiving form letters in my e-mail box that begin, "We're sorry you decided to close […]
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A gentleman from PayPal just phoned and said they'll straighten everything out. Let's see if this happens. […]
Some of what I told you before seems to be inoperative, as they said back in the Nixon administration…not about the time spent on hold but about what the problem is. Basically, PayPal accounts are linked to checking accounts and every so often, they ask you to verify the full checking account number as a […]
I'm chatting intermittently with a PayPal service rep who's smart, eager to help and has no idea how to solve this problem. She keeps putting me on hold and then going away to get help. So far, this new call has lasted 30 minutes. […]
Disconnected. Lovely. […]
As I'm waiting here for the PayPal people to find someone there with an I.Q. over room temperature, I've been reading this statement on my screen, which is from a "security" page I can't get past because of this account number snafu… For your security, PayPal will never ask you to re-enter your full bank […]
I am still waiting for that person. One hour and seventeen minutes. […]
She came back on the line and suggested that I hang up with her, call my bank and get them to verify my checking account number. I said, "I have my checking account number. I'm reading it right off one of my checks. My problem here is that your version of my checking account number […]
Okay, someone finally came on line and I found that Tech Support had referred me back to the same department I started with. I got a customer service representative who doesn't understand the problem, no matter how I explain it. I was about to ask, "Could you forward my call to someone smarter?" but she […]
Just went to the bathroom and came back to the same cheezy hold music and announcements. 57 minutes. I'm answering e-mail while I wait but still, this is a colossal waste of time. […]
Okay, Tech Support can't help. The problem seems to be that when I originally signed up for my PayPal account, I verified by linking to one of my checking accounts. But the bank that handles that checking account has changed the form of their account numbers. They now add some leading zeroes. Ergo, when PayPal […]
The human being came back on the line to inform me that he couldn't help me. He's forwarding my call to Technical Support. So I'm back on hold again, this time waiting for someone new. Coming up on thirty-eight minutes. […]
Thirty-one minutes. I've had paying jobs that didn't last this long. […]