Paypal.CA ?

[angelove]

Recently I received an email from Paypal (I'm pretty sure it's legit as it had my name).

If you type in www.paypal.ca (as of July 24) it automatically switches you to paypal.com.

Is this going to be good for us Canadians?

Does this also mean the Paypal debit mastercard won't work for us anymore? There's not really a lot of info. on their debit mastercard for us 'foreigners'.

PayPal, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are preparing to introduce PayPal CA Limited (PayPal Canada) - a PayPal group company incorporated in Canada - as the service provider for PayPal customers in Canada. Going forward, this development will help us improve services for our Canadian customers.

We anticipate that PayPal Canada will begin operating on August 1, 2006.

Please note that no action will be necessary on your part. You will be able to continue using your PayPal account as you do today.

Your Existing Customer Relationship with PayPal

Until PayPal Canada begins operating in August 2006, your customer relationship continues to be with PayPal, Inc. (a U.S. company) under the PayPal User Agreement, which is governed by California law.

A New Customer Relationship with PayPal

With the introduction of our new Canadian company, your customer relationship will automatically be transferred to PayPal Canada. We anticipate that this will occur on August 1, 2006. At that time, we will introduce minor changes to both the User Agreement and its incorporated policies, as well as to the Privacy Policy. The new User Agreement will be similar to the current Agreement, and will contain no adverse amendments from a customer's perspective. It will also no longer contain U.S.-specific references.

If you do not wish to hold a PayPal Canada account and would prefer to continue your relationship with PayPal, Inc., you may only do so if you are a resident of the United States, and if the primary address in your PayPal account as of August 1, 2006 is a legitimate postal address within the United States.

If your primary address is not in the United States, you may close your account at any time, either before or after the transition to PayPal Canada, by logging in to your PayPal account and clicking Profile. We value your business and hope you'll transfer with us to PayPal Canada, where you'll be able to use PayPal in the same way you do today.

Once the transition from PayPal, Inc. to PayPal Canada occurs, we will post updated versions of our User Agreement and its incorporated policies, as well as our Privacy Policy, to our website.

If you have any questions prior to August 1, 2006 about these upcoming changes, please contact Customer Support. You can get contact information by logging in to your PayPal account and clicking Contact Us at the bottom of your Account Overview page.

Here is what I'm hoping paypal.ca will be:
- waive the 50-cents CDN fee bank transfer for $149.99 CDN and less. *v* It's really not fair for US-residents to not have any transfer fees while CDNs and intls countries do.
- faster transfer echeck/withdrawals/deposits 3 biz days rather than 7 biz days! *grr*
- cheaper/free (*snicker*) transaction fees between Canadian residents applies to premier/business accnts
- red/white theme layout? j/k

[S_G]

From a month ago... http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...d.php?t=306782

[john widow]

DAMN SHOULDA pointed out that paypal.ca has a 3 day hold. GRRRRRRRRRRRR
C"MON! this thread is great for reposting! sometimes the message doesn't get out the first time.
Oh crap....it didn't start yet.

[ah bao]

i didn't know? i didn't even get an email. I'm glad this got thread got restarted. so are there any big differences from paypal.ca to paypal.com?

[john widow]

I think they say paypal.ca is gonna be implemented into paypal.com or something. So we don't have to do any changes, it should be just there changed. Now that paypal's got a company in canada...they can trust us more. . No more feeling bad that us Canadians are disgriminated by making us wait longer on holds than them........Maybe eBay sellers will let us buy from them too more.

[tkyoshi]

I think they say paypal.ca is gonna be implemented into paypal.com or something. So we don't have to do any changes, it should be just there changed. Now that paypal's got a company in canada...they can trust us more. . No more feeling bad that us Canadians are disgriminated by making us wait longer on holds than them........Maybe eBay sellers will let us buy from them too more.

Hopefully hold times goes down. If they operate in Canada maybe we'll be able to get a Paypal debit card (using Interac) for Canada. And yes I know some of you guys got a paypal debit card, but it's not available in Canada right now, seems that they had a little slip up last time and some Canadian people got it.