by May Lai

Created on: August 02, 2009   Last Updated: December 27, 2011

Paypal.com  is a great website to join and it is free. I joined paypal from ebay.com or else you can join from Paypal.com. You need to provide your email address, password your banking information and your current phone number which is very important.   Once paypal.com sends you an email to activate your account you can start to use paypal for all your money needs.

Once your account is activated you can start to use it.  You can  pay money to someone through a check card, debit card or any type of card  anywhere in the world and even receive and send an echeck through paypal..  You can even receive money from your friends or family members.  I can easily change my email address, password, credit card information, home address, telephone number and your credit card expiration date and your name.  I can usually change this information thru the Profile page of my account. it is easy to change.  The thing I like about the website is you can track your history files by just providing the month, date and year to check your records of payments no matter how long your had your account.

You can even transfer money or withdraw money from your bank account.  The only thing is you can only transfer $500.00 a month from your bank account.  If you go over the 500.00 limit you have to wait till next month to transfer money again to your bank account.  If you want to change the amount to transfer more you need to provide your social security number.  This usually takes about 3-5 days to until your money is in your account it depends on your bank and the holiday days in a year.There are a number of websites that paypal uses for their tranactions such as: Mysurvey.com, Quickrewards.net, Mypoints.com which are survey sites that you can fill out surveys for cash.  Helium is also a great site to write opinions that also uses paypal for their payment.

I strongly recommend Paypal it is one of the most popular ways for payment online and it is safe and convenient and easy to use. When you need to sell and buy things online you might need to open an account through Ebay to use it.

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