ARGH!

I just got off the phone with Paypal. To further clarify: I didn't want to use Paypal, because several months ago I'd upgraded it to a business account in order to accept payments through an invoicing service I was using. I've since stopped using that service, and now I'm stuck with a Paypal account where EVERY transaction, in or out, gets charged with a fee.

So just now I called up Paypal's "customer service." I waded through one of the most unintelligent automated systems I've used (it didn't understand a single word I said), and talked to someone who I could barely understand myself. I asked him to downgrade my account. In a retention effort, he explained the downsides to a personal account vs a business account. Here is how I understand it:

- there are no accounts on Paypal (personal, "premium," or business) that can receive any amount of money for free. Isn't that different than how it used to be? I've never been a big ebay seller, so I'm not too familiar.
- the personal account has a limit to 5 receipts a year, and $500 in a month (which makes it useless for Bitt and I, since he needs to send money for shipping too).
- the premiere account lifts that restriction, but charges a fee for payments, like the business account. I can't really see what the difference between the premiere and business accounts are.

So, unless Bitt wants to add another $15+ to this, we'll have to find another way.

That's unbelievable about Obopay, Bitt. I don't know how they'll make money with those restrictions.