Best way to buy bitcoins with paypal?

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: MrSitype on October 25, 2012, 08:11:24 AM

What's the deal with VirWox ? Do you need to actually have an account on second life to do the PP > L$ > BTC trick ?

No, I don't believe you need to have or validate a second life avatar in order to buy L$ with PayPal, nor to trade them for BTC.

[Edit: Instructions here:
It also shows that you don't need to confirm the avatar.
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/110005258/Buy-Bitcoin-via-Paypal-Paysafecard-Credit-Card-Ukash ]

MrSitype

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What's the deal with VirWox ? Do you need to actually have an account on second life to do the PP > L$ > BTC trick ?

Zollen

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Quote from: bbit on October 24, 2012, 10:43:53 PM

Quote from: Zollen on October 24, 2012, 10:23:42 PM

Quote from: plogank on October 24, 2012, 10:19:27 PM

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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).

If you've got funds in a Dwolla account, you might as well use MtGox. It's a piece of cake once you get the funds to Dwolla.

Can I upload funds to dwolla straight from my Card?

Nope, only bank transfer to dwolla.

Thanks. Is there are any comission to transfer from dwolla to Gox? BTW I have read that dwolla was attacked and hacked in past, so is it safe?

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Quote from: Zollen on October 24, 2012, 10:23:42 PM

Quote from: plogank on October 24, 2012, 10:19:27 PM

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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).

If you've got funds in a Dwolla account, you might as well use MtGox. It's a piece of cake once you get the funds to Dwolla.

Can I upload funds to dwolla straight from my Card?

Nope, only bank transfer to dwolla.

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Quote from: plogank on October 24, 2012, 10:19:27 PM

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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).

If you've got funds in a Dwolla account, you might as well use MtGox. It's a piece of cake once you get the funds to Dwolla.

this ^^

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Quote from: plogank on October 24, 2012, 10:19:27 PM

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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).

If you've got funds in a Dwolla account, you might as well use MtGox. It's a piece of cake once you get the funds to Dwolla.

Can I upload funds to dwolla straight from my Card?

plogank

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I'm just not sure why some people are so set on PayPal.
An alternative that's more generally accepted is Dwolla (or depending on where you have your checking account there are other alternatives).

If you've got funds in a Dwolla account, you might as well use MtGox. It's a piece of cake once you get the funds to Dwolla.

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I used virwox.com and it worked out about £9 a coin with Paypal.

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PM to purchase. I do require verification.

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Not many people are willing to sell bitcoins through paypal. It has a horribly bad track record of being scammed.

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Quote from: chickahoona on April 12, 2012, 10:43:48 AM

There should be a special paypal transaction, where the user agrees that there cannot be a chargeback. I refuse all paypal transactions as seller and always want paypal as buyer Cheesy

Another huge problem are those stupid fees of 3% as a seller

Can't because Paypal is simply a front for CC. If a paypal account is hacked and the hacker uses it to purchase $20,000 in a no-chargeback tx (possibly to himself) do you think a) the customer is just going to say "oh well guess I have a $20,000 CC bill" or b) Paypal says "guess we eat $20K"?

The entire credit card model is based around no personal responsibility (except by merchants who take the cost/weight of all fraud). You can't build an entire economic system w/ no responsibility and then at the highest level make it irreversible.

If you want irreversible tx it needs to be irreversible from the ground up.

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There should be a special paypal transaction, where the user agrees that there cannot be a chargeback. I refuse all paypal transactions as seller and always want paypal as buyer Cheesy

Another huge problem are those stupid fees of 3% as a seller

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casascius

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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)

I don't know - I just recently noticed that only the smaller denominations are for sale at Memory Dealers. I know PayPal threw a fit, but haven't heard if the credit card companies threw a fit too, or if there were recent problems I haven't heard about (fraud, etc.)

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Quote from: casascius on April 10, 2012, 04:57:50 PM

Quote from: Xmufa23X on April 06, 2012, 02:49:28 AM

What if the Best way of buying Bitcoins... is with Bitcoins?

Buy Bitcoins with Bitcoins at casascius.com!

Hey casascius,
How do you or your partners handle the risk associated with buying your coins via paypal or credit card? Is it because the goods are tangible and must be shipped that the risk is lower?

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Quote from: bitcoinsarefun on April 05, 2012, 06:38:43 PM

Quote from: manman523 on April 05, 2012, 06:33:35 PM

Hey guys, im just wondering whats my best way to buy bitcoins with paypal. Do I have to convert paypal to another currency or what ?

You would have to send whatever currency the seller wanted... As an fyi, not too many people are keen on doing paypal for btc since there is a massive risk of charge back. That being said, there are always people that are willing to take the risk

I saw some ebay auctions for bitcoin but the margin is quite high. i suspect the risk of charge back is the reason

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