New Paypal Advantage Membership

I received an invite but haven't checked out all of the bells and whistles yet. Looks interesting though.

Looks interesting... Maybe I don't earn enough to get the invite?

I received an invitation and didn't study it but today it said I was upgraded . I need to study what this entails actually.

Debbie

Not so sure it's about how much you earn thru PP, than how much you spend through your PP ac.

I know this based on messaging I'm seeing in our two accounts - one for spending, one for earning.

In other words, "pay us more money and we'll give you better service." PayPal's fees aren't awful, but I feel like we pay them enough as it is. The perks would have to be worth it.

Huh. That's funny. I assumed when I got the email that it was a phising attempt because I don't think I actually spent that much money on Paypal this year. I am just a poor newbie here trying to figure this stuff out at this point.

I did make one large purchase (and enough smaller ones) this year but I don't think I paid through paypal on that one...I'll have to take a look.

Doesn't it have something to do with spending 5k through your paypal account?
I received an email some months ago and I lost it.

Can't say that i'm too interested in the perks.

Yes, you need to be doing over $5k per year. If you fall below that figure one year then your membership gets cancelled.

Source: https://www.paypal-promo.com/advantage/index.html

They just upgraded me today as well... Whatever. I don't know how useful it will be, have to see what kind of "Insider Perks" they send me I've had a dedicated account rep I can reach out to for years, so "dedicated support" prolly won't mean much.

Interesting to see them trying to pump up spending tho- they must be feeling the heat and decided to change their ways a bit (one can only hope).

@WillR: You don't have to requalify every month- just yearly. Do over 5000 in any one YEAR, and the entire next year you are one of the cool kids

I've been in that for a couple of years or so. I always spend at least $5,000 in a year. But I have never taken advantage of any of the "benefits". They haven't really offered anything I was interested in.

Yeah, got the invite too but haven't had a chance to dig into it yet...

I was "upgraded" as well. And I did receive at least one tangible benefit -they gave me a coupon for a free cup of coffee at Starbucks!

Beyond that, I'm not sure it has much relevance for me. It sounds like a mainly symbolic upgrade to encourage you to spend more for some vague advantages.

Interesting list of features, but nothing special, imo.

Except the dedicated agent (as opposed to the non-dedicated ones) and the on-your-side dispute resolution service, the rest sounds almost like my motor club membership - just needs free towing..:-)
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Bruce NewMedia

I don't know if it's related, but I recently bought a typical eBook package from someone whose sales page offered a "100% no-questions-asked money-back guarantee". I looked the material over and thought it sucked. I think that whomever this guy bought the site from put far more effort into the sales page than they did in the material (looked like a crappy PLR report).

Anyway, I sent an email asking for a refund. I got no reply. After a week, I sent another. No reply. After another week, I posted something at the guy's support desk. No reply. A week later, I filed a dispute with PayPal, thinking THAT might FINALLY get his attention. No reply. I finally called up PayPal to talk with a representative, mostly out of curiosity about what could be done, if anything.

She suggested I elevate my dispute to a claim. I said, "This is a digital download product and I know that if I elevate it to a claim, it will be immediately closed-out and nothing will happen." She thought for a moment and then realized I was right.

I said I don't ask for many refunds, and if it were only $5, I wouldn't bother in this case. But for what I paid, I thought it was a rip-off. Also, the seller has several places on the sales page that speak very prominently about his "100% no-questions-asked money-back guarantee". While I realize that PayPal's policy is not to deal with disputes involving digital download products, it concerns me that some marketers like this guy might take advantage of people by offering a "100% no-questions-asked money-back guarantee" with absolutely no intention of honoring it, knowing PayPal won't do anything.

She put me on hold for a couple of minutes, and then came back and said, "Here's what I'll do... I'll escalate this to a claim and it will get closed out. Then I'll put in a request for a CREDIT TO YOUR ACCOUNT for the amount of the purchase. It won't show up for a couple of days, so be patient. And then I'll have our Fraud Department take a look at this seller's account to see if this might be a pattern with them."

I asked if the credit would be taken from the seller's account, and she said no, it would just be a credit issued by PayPal. (wow!)

The credit showed up in my account 2 days later. Actually, it was MORE than they said it would be.

Again, I dunno if this is because I'm an Advantage Member (because I use my PayPal account and debit card a LOT) or just because I'm a good schmoozer. Either way, I'm very happy!

At first, I thought they offered me the Advantage membership as a kind of apology because of a problem I had with them. It wasn't IM related -an ATM malfunction where I got billed without being able to withdraw cash. This was quickly resolved, and then a day or two later I found out I had been "upgraded." Seeing that many other people also were at the same time, I suppose this is just a coincidence.

dedicated agent is handy, that will fasten the response. Waiting for my invites as well.

I was "complimentary Upgraded" for my volume. Looks like just a name to me. No real benefits.

Shannon