PEOPLE WHO USE PAYPAL! Careful!!

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I'm going to quote Balatronical (Tumblr) here in my journal because they explained it pretty well. Basically, if you use Paypal, be aware of the address part. It can cause problems down the road.

balatronical:

Paypal changed the look of how you will fill out information and send money. Thus, you need to be super careful. Don’t go all willy nilly through and be like “Yeah yeah yeah send” you need to stop when you see this screen right away.

Before you proceed, you will first notice one major thing: your address is showing. What you need to do if you are ordering a DIGITAL WORK (aka, it is being sent to you via the interwebz) is you need to click on your address and there around be a drop down menu of 3 (or more) options:

  • No address needed
  • Your Current Address
  • + Add a new shipping address

Be sure to select “No address needed”, it is very important that you do. If you leave your address in there, Paypal will assume that you are to receive a physical package. A physical package which needs proof that exists physically. Paypal will want the artist to provide shipping labels and tracking info on said package. This is bad, very, very bad. Artists can get in trouble if they cannot provide these things.

Please, if an artist asks to send you back your money so that you can send it again correctly, do not be offended. You are paying them to do your commission, how can they do your commission with no money?


Source:balatronica on Tumblr (It won't let me link to their Tumblr for some reason. It's a broken link.)
Link: lalasosu2.tumblr.com/post/1116…

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Makitk's avatar
Here's another issue; PayPal has not let me choose "No Shipping Address Required" on invoices. Nowhere is this option visible. I can only use this upon sending money myself.
As a way of getting around this I made a "blank" address where I just stated "None" on every line except the postal code which is a lot of zeroes. It seems to work.