Couldn't Pay For Elite membership
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Phenom420
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oh you like asian woman too??!! I'm in the exact same boat as you, now Im engaged to a beautiful korean womanCheers
hehehe right on, hell yeah I likes asians LOL.
My Wifey does 2, although she hasn't gotten herself one yet LOL.
Congrats on that sir, me and my Wifey got married at our place, while all our guest were outside we were on the roof of our place ripping a 2.5' bong LOL
greenearth5
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Any body have any idea whats going on with this elite membership... anybody tried to subscribe recently to see if it works? im broke or ide try
HHGTTG420
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oh you like asian woman too??!! I'm in the exact same boat as you, now Im engaged to a beautiful korean woman
Hah, I'm married to a Thai woman myself, just had our 7 year anniv a few months back. Nothing beats some good Thai cookin!
Phenom420
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Hah, I'm married to a Thai woman myself, just had our 7 year anniv a few months back. Nothing beats some good Thai cookin!
LOL
I married a little cute blue eyed blonde, she looks pretty young too, hehehehe
Katatawnic
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Not a single word, so far as I know. I want mine back too. Some form of acknowledgment of this issue, whether a guesstimate of how/when this will be fixed or not, sure would be appreciated... wouldn't you agree? But I stopped holding my breath weeks ago. 
Dr. Greenhorn
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I'm still holding mine,,,, and nope, didn't die yet, I can hold my breath for a long time
lol
lol
Phenom420
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Not a single word, so far as I know. I want mine back too. Some form of acknowledgment of this issue, whether a guesstimate of how/when this will be fixed or not, sure would be appreciated... wouldn't you agree? But I stopped holding my breath weeks ago.
Yeah and I thought I was bad about not getting around to things, but I'm not that bad when it comes to not taking money.
I'm still holding mine,,,, and nope, didn't die yet, I can hold my breath for a long time
I hear some are loosing theirs.
Phenom420
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However guys, I did notice they got around to making a fake site for their smokeless products they are pushing now.
I'm kinda annoyed they made a fake shell site to sell a fake cruddy product rahter than working on taking our money.
I also advertise for a bunch that sell those stupid e-cigs that r prob slowly poisoning plp.
Seriously who that smoke weed is gonna go 4 those fake e-cigs?
They would stand to make more from "donations" than selling that stuff, most plp aren't buying from ads anymore, def not that crap.
I'm kinda annoyed they made a fake shell site to sell a fake cruddy product rahter than working on taking our money.
I also advertise for a bunch that sell those stupid e-cigs that r prob slowly poisoning plp.
Seriously who that smoke weed is gonna go 4 those fake e-cigs?
They would stand to make more from "donations" than selling that stuff, most plp aren't buying from ads anymore, def not that crap.
greenearth5
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I tried it the other day without any sucess ... i wrote them several emails and have no responses ... guess they dont give a fuck about any of us anymore
Phenom420
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Yeah I wrote them a month ago, never a reply.
I really think its more like they are very high risk and prob were dropped by their previous merchant bank (who allows them to process cards) and now they can't get another bank to take them (they also could be on the black list of merchants, which makes it impossible, unless they go though another like say ccbill verotel 2co, ect...)
Either way it would be nice and caring of them to give us a message on the subscription page as to why and maybe when they are going to fix it....
That leads me to think the part that they are too high risk to get accepted, due to they are charging a subscription fee (you can try to hide it as donating, but so do dealers) but it boils down to it's a site all about illegal discussion (in most states) so the folks at the bank don't want to be in the spot light say if a crack down happened as they would be possibly profiting from an illegal business.
Phenom420
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Im also a online merchant and I've had the fun of being a high risk merchant and without great credit and already great merchant history your pretty much screwed.
Ohh another note, if they had alot of charge backs (plp not wanting to pay, calling their cc company and saying it wasn't authorized, or their kid did it, ect) that will cost you your merchant account and make it VERY hard or maybe impossible to get picked back up (you won't if you owe the bank money).
Banks fuck us merchants left and right, that's actually y I'm a grower now, I use to be a smut peddler.
Ohh another note, if they had alot of charge backs (plp not wanting to pay, calling their cc company and saying it wasn't authorized, or their kid did it, ect) that will cost you your merchant account and make it VERY hard or maybe impossible to get picked back up (you won't if you owe the bank money).
Banks fuck us merchants left and right, that's actually y I'm a grower now, I use to be a smut peddler.
greenearth5
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illl mail a damn check in if thats what i gotta do... so long as they come out and say "start mailing the checks cause we cant accept plastic for a while" ... thats all they gotta say
Phenom420
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Katatawnic
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I've still got a one word solution to that... PayPal.
greenearth5
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California NORML Release – Oct 12, 2009
Paypal, the well-known internet payment company has told California NORML that it will no longer accept payments to our “type of business” because we accept listing payments from cannabis-recommending physicians.
After years of offering free listings to physicians and collectives at our website http://www.canorml.org, CaNORML began charging a yearly listing fee to cover our costs last year.
PayPal froze CaNORML’s account in June, saying that by accepting listing fees fromcollectives, we were violating their Acceptable Use policy, which says, “you may not use PayPal in the purchase or sale of narcotics.” Although narcotics were not being sold over the CaNORML site, we reluctantly agreed to stop accepting listings fees from collectives that dispense medical marijuana, recognizing that even though they are legal under state law, they are illegal under federal law. However, we continued to accept payments online from doctors, attorneys, and members.
Now PayPal has stopped accepting payments from the CaNORML site because we continued to accept listing payments from physicians.
Under a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (Conant v. Walters, 2003), physicians have the first amendment right to discuss and recommend medical marijuana for their patients, although they may not distribute it or help patients in finding it. PayPal was informed of this and wrote back, “We are not arguing the legality of this issue; we are simply stating that we have made the business decision to not be involved with this type of business.”
Because of its discriminatory policy and disregard of physicians’ first amendment rights, CaNORML submits that PayPal is not the “type of business” to be used by those who advocate for human rights. We will file a complaint with the federal banking committee over their practices.
Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay (California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s former company) in 2002.
Complain to: PayPal, 2211 N 1st St, San Jose 95131 (40
376-7400
Dale Gieringer, CA NORML
Paypal, the well-known internet payment company has told California NORML that it will no longer accept payments to our “type of business” because we accept listing payments from cannabis-recommending physicians.
After years of offering free listings to physicians and collectives at our website http://www.canorml.org, CaNORML began charging a yearly listing fee to cover our costs last year.
PayPal froze CaNORML’s account in June, saying that by accepting listing fees fromcollectives, we were violating their Acceptable Use policy, which says, “you may not use PayPal in the purchase or sale of narcotics.” Although narcotics were not being sold over the CaNORML site, we reluctantly agreed to stop accepting listings fees from collectives that dispense medical marijuana, recognizing that even though they are legal under state law, they are illegal under federal law. However, we continued to accept payments online from doctors, attorneys, and members.
Now PayPal has stopped accepting payments from the CaNORML site because we continued to accept listing payments from physicians.
Under a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (Conant v. Walters, 2003), physicians have the first amendment right to discuss and recommend medical marijuana for their patients, although they may not distribute it or help patients in finding it. PayPal was informed of this and wrote back, “We are not arguing the legality of this issue; we are simply stating that we have made the business decision to not be involved with this type of business.”
Because of its discriminatory policy and disregard of physicians’ first amendment rights, CaNORML submits that PayPal is not the “type of business” to be used by those who advocate for human rights. We will file a complaint with the federal banking committee over their practices.
Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay (California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s former company) in 2002.
Complain to: PayPal, 2211 N 1st St, San Jose 95131 (40
376-7400Dale Gieringer, CA NORML
HHGTTG420
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From what I seem to remember in another thread, RIU had paypal but ended up getting the account blocked because the site promoted drugs.
Edit: greenearth5 posted a much better example on this with CaNORML's issue w/paypal just above me.
Phenom420
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California NORML Release Oct 12, 2009
Paypal, the well-known internet payment company has told California NORML that it will no longer accept payments to our type of business because we accept listing payments from cannabis-recommending physicians.
After years of offering free listings to physicians and collectives at our website http://www.canorml.org, CaNORML began charging a yearly listing fee to cover our costs last year.
PayPal froze CaNORMLs account in June, saying that by accepting listing fees fromcollectives, we were violating their Acceptable Use policy, which says, you may not use PayPal in the purchase or sale of narcotics. Although narcotics were not being sold over the CaNORML site, we reluctantly agreed to stop accepting listings fees from collectives that dispense medical marijuana, recognizing that even though they are legal under state law, they are illegal under federal law. However, we continued to accept payments online from doctors, attorneys, and members.
Now PayPal has stopped accepting payments from the CaNORML site because we continued to accept listing payments from physicians.
Under a ruling upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (Conant v. Walters, 2003), physicians have the first amendment right to discuss and recommend medical marijuana for their patients, although they may not distribute it or help patients in finding it. PayPal was informed of this and wrote back, We are not arguing the legality of this issue; we are simply stating that we have made the business decision to not be involved with this type of business.
Because of its discriminatory policy and disregard of physicians first amendment rights, CaNORML submits that PayPal is not the type of business to be used by those who advocate for human rights. We will file a complaint with the federal banking committee over their practices.
Located in San Jose, California, PayPal was founded in 1998 and was acquired by eBay (California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitmans former company) in 2002.
Complain to: PayPal, 2211 N 1st St, San Jose 95131 (40
Dale Gieringer, CA NORML
Yeah Paypal fucked me years ago took several grand out of my account over a $59 sale someone used a stolen card on, and that was my only bad transaction out of hundreds.
You can read y not to use paypal at www.paypalsucks.com
Katatawnic
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Wow, I had no idea. My PayPal account was hacked in 2007, I discovered it within a few hours of it occurring, and instead of using emails or contact forms, I immediately called PayPal and informed them that someone had just used my account to purchase four computers on eBay. They reversed the charges in moments, and everything was settled without a hitch. (I then of course changed my passwords on all sites!)
I was very pleased with PayPal's prompt actions against this theft, and have since told many people that they protect you against fraud. I've suggested to them that they also use PayPal's option of generating credit card numbers that can be used however we choose (one time payment only, recurring payments to that merchant only, etc.) in order to protect our real CC#'s from fraud. Now after reading quite a bit at www.paypalsucks.com, I'm thinking I should tell those to whom I'd made these recommendations that I was wrong, and not to trust PayPal as much as I'd thought we should.
I was very pleased with PayPal's prompt actions against this theft, and have since told many people that they protect you against fraud. I've suggested to them that they also use PayPal's option of generating credit card numbers that can be used however we choose (one time payment only, recurring payments to that merchant only, etc.) in order to protect our real CC#'s from fraud. Now after reading quite a bit at www.paypalsucks.com, I'm thinking I should tell those to whom I'd made these recommendations that I was wrong, and not to trust PayPal as much as I'd thought we should.