{"id":247,"date":"2005-08-12T23:18:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2005-08-12T23:18:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T21:18:05","slug":"trying-to-make-a-payment-in-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Trying to make a payment in Paypal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the excitement of seeing that South Africans have the p<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?p=164&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">rivilege of paying money through Paypal<\/a>, but not receiving money (and who says global capitalism is not one big sucking sound from the have nots to the haves), I&#8217;ve recently actually tried to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a few times, at different times of the day, and on different days, and I find it one of the most dog slow sites I&#8217;ve ever come across. Reminds me of the early days with 2400 bit\/s modems.<\/p>\n<p>After much frustration, waiting, and hitting refresh, I finally find I can&#8217;t make the payment. The start limit of $100 is too small, and I have to apply to up this limit, then wait 3-4 days for a number to appear online in my credit card statement. Hah, with Nedbank I get to wait about a month for my next printed statement. The giant sucking now sounds more like a feeble whine, about as effective as my mother&#8217;s 20-year old Hoover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the excitement of seeing that South Africans have the privilege of paying money through Paypal, but not receiving money (and who says global capitalism is not one big sucking sound from the have nots to the haves), I&#8217;ve recently actually tried to use it. I&#8217;ve tried a few times, at different times of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=247\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trying to make a payment in Paypal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}