Is it possible to pay with paypal on Amazon.com / .co.uk ? (in Off-topic)

AdminShade December 26 2006 11:55 AM EST

Or do I have to find out another way to pay for things there?

AdminJonathan December 26 2006 12:11 PM EST

I think only if you have a paypal debit card.

Paypal used to have an option to generate a "virtual" mastercard number that you could use to shop, but I can't find that anymore.

Timberwolf December 26 2006 8:31 PM EST

Here is the link to it:

https://www.paypal.com/vdebit

I believe I read somewhere just yesterday that they have disabled it for the time being.
If you dig around in the help section at Paypal, you can find FAQ's about it here:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_help&eloc=0&loc=3334&source_page=_home&flow=

Most of the links don't work when clicked though. Not sure if they are revamping it, or removing it.

Timberwolf December 26 2006 8:34 PM EST

I just realized links to Paypal make some people squeamish.
If you don't trust the links, search the help at Paypal using the term:

'virtual debit card'

That will get you to the page I have linked to above.

AdminShade December 27 2006 10:20 AM EST

It's already solved, thanks :)

AdminJonathan December 27 2006 2:46 PM EST

Cool, when I went to /vdebit and picked walmart it popped up the virtual card number just fine. So I guess it still works, for now.

bartjan December 27 2006 3:54 PM EST

Just on slashdot: PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card... Seems to be Windoze/IE only :(

AdminJonathan December 27 2006 4:50 PM EST

Worked for me in FF/win.

Timberwolf December 27 2006 6:25 PM EST

Yeah, I saw the /. story at work today and couldn't post.
Looks like I stumbled onto them getting it going, it didn't work for me last night.

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