Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

I’m sure you must get this question a lot, but do you have any plans to support PayPal in the future?

Call me lazy, but sometimes I’d rather just not order something, than to have to transfer funds from my PayPal account back to my regular account just to spend it (despite their recent problems).

Like just now. I wanted to purchase High Performance MySQL, figuring I’d pay using some funds that I have sitting in PayPal at the moment. But Amazon doesn’t accept it. My regular account is awaiting my next paycheck before I make any unnecessary purchases. And it would take several days to transfer money from PayPal back to my regular accounts, so all semblance of convenience is lost.

Please, please, please add PayPal support.

Please?

Need a use-case? PayPal is one of the few ways I can purchase a gift for my wife without her seeing the bill. [Ed note: pretend you didn’t read that, sweetheart 😉] But the main use-case is just that it’s awfully darned convenient to use PayPal when you already have funds sitting in the account. It’s a source of funds that are already outside my primary budget management, so it’s almost like “free money” that I don’t feel guilty about spending (because as far as my budget calculations are concerned, it’s already “spent”).

C’mon, Amazon… MAKE MONEY NOW!!!!1!1!

Sorry, I don’t know what came over me.

Don’t I at least deserve a $20 gift certificate for making my message entertaining (as well as informative)?

No?

…darn…

$10?

Alright, I’ll stop now.

Seriously, though.

PayPal.

Your customers want it.