NEW OPTION for Withdrawing from PP without using a bank...
I've just discovered (out of nessesity, exploring my options) that I can use a fully stealth acct to purchase something from Home Depot, Apple, Sears, and likely a lot more stores as a "Buy online for in-store Pickup". All you have to do is fill in the first and last name of the person coming in to pick it up, and they need to have ID which is just looked at when you pick it up.
So if John Doe is the stealth acct info, and he buys a shop vac at Home Depot.com (they let you pay directly with PP!), he buys it online, all with the stealth info, email, pp, all that.... and when filling out the details of the order he selects the option of "in store pickup" and fills in Jane Smith as the person who will be picking up the shop vac (another option offered). 15 minutes later John Doe gets an email confirming payment went through and his order is ready, he prints out that email and "sends Jane Smith or whoever" to Home Depot with the order confirmation. For privacy, Jane Smith might want to print her name Smithe or Smithh or something, which wont be an issue for the person at Home Depot who is getting the item that's ready for pickup. At least in the case with Home Depot, that "person picking up" was only entered on the Home Depot site, and didnt ask for any other info, just first and last name, and a slight misspelling was easily overlooked)
This is becoming more and more common with retailers, especially now that I look for it at places I need to buy things anyway... as I mentioned even Apple has a buy-online-pickup-in-the-store option, though they dont directly take Paypal yet (Homedepot DOES- you can pay right from your PP account). But with Apple you can buy the cards on Ebay (often at a slight discount, especially for higher dollar amounts) with your pp balance and use them for the online order for in-store pickups.
Just something I discovered that I thought I'd share with my friends here. :D
Last edited by turnpike; 04-17-2012 at 04:56 PM.
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