PayPal solicits your e-mail address!

I’m getting really sick of PayPal selling my account’s e-mail address to vendors. According to their privacy policy, they don’t solicit your e-mail “except in the limited circumstances described” in their policy. They sure have been disclosing my e-mail address to third parties. I subscribed to PayPal using a unique e-mail address for the service and over fifty percent of the spam I get comes from that address.

If you read the privacy policy carefully, you’ll see that PayPal does actually give out your “personal information,” which probably includes your e-mail address, “to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements.” PayPal also solicits your credit card number to lost credit card tracking agencies. However, they explicitly state that your credit card information is not disclosed anywhere else. If you need a PayPal account, don’t use your master e-mail address. Make a PayPal address like I did and create a filter rule to delete all incoming e-mail from that account.

It’s a shame but what alternative do we all have in this? Paypal seems to the best in wiring money and if there was a competing service, perhaps it would kill paypal (whereas Paypal would only be used for Ebay).

Paypal will die sooner than u expected