A Friendly Warning About Using Paypal for Unity Purchases

Perhaps you misread or misunderstood what I wrote or was talking about?

First, when providing service to others you can't assume that everyone's perfect. Good customer service or design for customer facing systems takes a broad range of people into account including, among other things, those who might not be paying as much attention as they should, or who primarily speak a different language, or may even have some kind of disability, or... the list goes on.

Second, even when dealing with otherwise ideal customers, it's good to realise that they can still make mistakes and not further inconvenience them or, worse, make them feel bad about it. That, specifically, is why I was saying I wouldn't use the language I quoted with a client or customer.

Third, I'm not going to dismiss a problem just because it involved a user making a mistake. There's still the distinct possibility I can improve things by making the mistake less likely in the future.

I'm not going to go to the PayPal forums to talk about user experience design and provision.

 

All very true imho, especially in the context of the whole "democratizing gamedev" mission statement of UT.

 

Or the entire thread. Up until now it was about "Let's beat up Unity, because."

And PayPal basically said: "it was Unity, please go away"

Well, if nobody goes to the real culprit and tell them, they will never know. (Of course in reality, they already know, what the problem is, there is no real solution against casual clicking, you have to pay attention if you spend money)

 

I believe from what I read it goes up as you use it. So when you first apply, it is $250. I may be wrong, but that is what the website said.

 

I disagree wholeheartedly. If it were specific to PayPal only, then yeah, but in this case the community forum gives him the opportunity to potentially connect with others using Unity who may have had the same experience.

 

yeah, could be, think it's changed since I first signed up

 

This happened to me, too!! Wtf!

 

@angrypenguin Thank you for being a voice of reason in amongst the many bizarre "you're holding it wrong" attempts at defences of negative and belligerent corporate policies and practices.

 

Hi,
I'm trying to take advantage of "MayMadness" shopping for assets of a value €440 but I get the below message when using PayPal. Please help!

Agreement was canceled.
When contacting support, please include the following information(show):

 

You should contact the support.

 

Are you trying to buy over a VPN connection?

 

In the list of bad ideas I think this takes the cake. Cash advances are not a good idea.