Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. The error I got in both instances was: "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number." This strikes me as a strange response. It didn't say the card was declined; it said it "cannot be used." Also, the response was awfully quick so it didn't seem to be from the credit card processor, but from PayPal. I setup e-commerce sites so am very familiar with on-line credit card processing. Also, I just used this card online a couple of days ago successfully, and I know I have plenty of available credit. Has anybody else gotten an error like this? I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a PayPal offer to me, have never used beyond setting up, but which PayPal has suspended. I'm not interested in using this account nor jumping through the hoops they require. I may have entered this credit card in that account. I suspect PayPal is blocking this credit card number to push me to re-open my PayPal account. Am I just being paranoid? Take care, Kurt Hansen
Kurt Hansen wrote:> I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I > suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather > than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a > PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a > PayPal offer to me, have never used beyond setting up, but which > PayPal has suspended. I'm not interested in using this account nor > jumping through the hoops they require. I may have entered this credit > card in that account. I suspect PayPal is blocking this credit card > number to push me to re-open my PayPal account.I believe paypal users can choose not to accept money from credit cards due to the fees withheld, although doing this for donations would be kind of silly... paypal's system is somewhat opaque about this sort of thing.
2008/11/24 Kurt Hansen <khansen at charityweb.net>:> Hello, > > I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by > PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago.I told my boss about this (our company is mainly in the online anti-fraud domain) and he said that it happened to him in the last few days too. Maybe Paypal is suffering from a glitch or tightened their checks too much. --Amos
Kurt Hansen wrote:> Hello, > > I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked > by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. > > The error I got in both instances was: > > "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a > different credit or debit card number."I remembered something else. When I first started using paypal a few years ago purely to make CC payments to other people, it only let me use a credit card about 3-4 times before I had to register for a proper paypal account.