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		rthomas6 on Sept 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Good riddance, PayPal The merchant. It's the merchant's business. The merchant should be the one taking the risk.

ed209 on Sept 6, 2012 [–]

I'd be happy with that. Frankly, PayPal's perception of risk is clearly killing businesses. They are going so far into being risk averse that it's killing business. I would rather shoulder the risk that suffer PayPal's "protections". They're like the TSA of online payments.

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