[geeks] PayPal alternative offering $25 free cash

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 14, 2008, at 20:40 , Nadine Miller wrote:

> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> First Bank SD just opened a public beta of their Revolution  
>> MoneyExchange service.  It works sorta like PayPal, except they're  
>> actually a bank, so your money in Revolution is insured and they're  
>> not allowed to screw around with a lot of the shenanigans PayPal  
>> periodically does.
>> Better, if you sign up by tomorrow (Thursday May 15), they'll give  
>> you $25 for signing up.  And better still (for me), if you get  
>> there by going to this post:
>> http://unixronin.livejournal.com/550008.html
>> and clicking the signup button you'll find there, they'll give me a  
>> $10 referral bonus.
>
> I signed up a few weeks ago.  They are currently not offering  
> funding the account via credit cards, though, that is somewhere down  
> the road. Rumor has it that eBay will pull your listings if you  
> mention them and get caught, though I've not seen a definitive  
> example of that, and RME is not explicitly prohibited in the example  
> services excluded in eBay policies.

I thought there were commerce laws in place that said you could not  
discriminate among like money exchange methods as long as they  
themselves were compliant with accepted standards.

As long as you pay eBay for their service, I'm not sure how they can  
legally control how two parties exchange funds.


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