I want to renew my star membership but the only way is with PayPal!

[question everything]

I skipped, selected pay with credit card, entered the info but to complete it I am faced with"

Create Account & Pay Now!

I am not going to create a PayPal account. I will mail a check it this is the only way.

On edit: OK I turned off the button and was allowed to proceed as a guest..

[Deuxcents]

1. I'm old school..I send a check to DU

P O Box 342453. Bethesda, Md. 20827

I had a mess w/ Pay Pal year’s ago n never will use em again.

[usonian]

2. Agree. I don't want to even be a guests at PayPal

Consider the "PayPal Mafia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

Among the early members of PayPal are pond scum, shown below.

Thiel and Musk, among others.
Full Stop.

[question everything]

3. I often get scam mail from "PayPal" which could be real scam

I hesitated when I was asked to provide my email and phone number but I suppose one has to even with a regular credit card.

[usonian]

4. You are right to QUESTION EVERYTHING!

Many scams come disguised as PP. So do ones claiming to be LinkedIn, Docusign and Yahoo, which were hacked for email addresses and old passwords (which you all changed!!!). Also all the popular sites, but they were not hacked. The scammers are just shotgunning. Like, from places where I have no account, and never did, unlike those 3 above that I dropped for very good reason.

I couldn't say how to distinguish a PP real email from a scam other than looking at the reply/sender email address in full, if you're mail app lets you. More likely on desktop than mobile, where we're treated like dummies.

Hovering or holding down your finger/mouse might reveal the real address rather than the spoofed one. Hope so.

I can say more if you have a desktop email app, namely "show full headers " and "show message source" but that's detailed and I should find a well-written reference and send the link to it.

[question everything]

8. And... took only a couple of days when I found this in my inbox

Sebeneland Eyters has canceled a money request

Canceled request details
Amount requested
$500.00 USD

Note from Sebeneland Eyters:

Suspicious transaction of $500 detected. If not done by you report to the PayPal fraud department at +1(888) 825 - 1141 to cancel.
Transaction ID
xxxxx (I delete it, just in case)
Transaction date
14 December 2022

Pay Now

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And, no, I am not going to call this number and I have no idea who Sebeneland Eyters is.

The address is from [e-mail]. Many scams have a gmail address..

My DU confirmation came form [e-mail] and I hate to think that there is a connection..

Next year I will send a check. This year my star membership would have expired and I would miss on all the hearts that I distributed..

[usonian]

9. In case you got an email, saying you won a Milwaukee power drill ..

The sender is not Ace Hardware. It's [e-mail]

WTF?

[NJCher]

7. oh, ugh!

I want nothing to do with any of them. Thiel? Musk?

[Maraya1969]

5. You can hit a button that says, "Pay by credit or debit card"

And at some point I also his "Checkout as guest"

I don't want Paypal anymore....

[Ptah]

6. Your headline is misleading.

[red dog 1]

10. I'm OK with PayPal, but never again will I ever use Amazon.com

(I used to love Amazon.com)

[Emile]

11. I use to have a PayPal account until it was hacked on Ebay.

Never again will I open another PayPal account. That said yes you can use a credit card to renew membership, but still a very confusing transaction because it keeps mentioning PayPal.