Screw you Paypal..

[theducks]

Due to security reasons, PayPal only allows one country address per PayPal account. When moving from country to country, you must close your existing account and open a new account in the country where you are residing.

Sigh. Of course, I don't have a Canadian credit card, which means I won't be able to open a Canadian PayPal account, and I think I can bet my ass that they won't let me open a Canadian PayPal account with an Australian credit card..

Which means, I suspect, my eBay purchases will have to go via Australia.. bleh.

Comments

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately a lot of vendors will now only ship to your paypal verified address. I can understand why they'd do something like this, but it's a pain

[luyer.livejournal.com]

You *should* be able to change your email address on your existing paypal or ebay, and then create a new paypal to line up with the ebay without giving up your old paypal.

As to opening a Canadian paypal - I'm not sure if a prepaid MC/Visa would help since paypal wouldn't be able to do address verification against them. If you have $10k spare for a year or so, you could get a secured MC/Visa, otherwise you should be able to get a debit MC/Visa?

[ducts.livejournal.com]

You can? I can't understand why they'd make it unnecessarily hard to use cash or cash equivalent to make a positive payment balance to ship anything you want to any address you want.