How to buy PinePhone WITHOUT opening a Paypal account?
#24
I recently ordered a PBP and was really agitated by the forced PayPal account signup.

In a normal economic transaction you intend to buy some product by providing the required funds. Nothing more, nothing less. In this case they ask you to also pay with your privacy by asking for your birth date, phone number, e-mail and what else. Sure you can provide some fake credentials here and there but the premise is wrong from the start. My intention was not to give money AND throw away some of my privacy.

Also PayPal is a company part of the USA full spectrum dominance blob that screws people, organizations and governments that for some reason or the other have fallen out of grace. Remember when PayPal blocked legal donation accounts of journalist Julian Assange currently rotting away in a UK dungeon awaiting his extradition to the USA.

I was intending to purchase a PinePhone in the nearby future but will put that on hold until I stop caring about PayPal or until Pine offers an alternative to PayPal.


Messages In This Thread
RE: How to buy PinePhone WITHOUT opening a Paypal account? - by Besouro - 05-23-2020, 06:53 AM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Zig booting up on PinePhone WhiteHexagon 1 1,765 10-06-2025, 09:15 PM
Last Post: welfarerightful
  Optimizing Power Management on PinePhone with PostmarketOS ZaraAbbas 0 2,097 05-27-2025, 01:49 AM
Last Post: ZaraAbbas
  Why is it so difficult to delete your account? casiobearing 2 2,424 03-08-2025, 09:24 PM
Last Post: tllim
  Second-Hand PinePhone rdv 9 4,441 01-05-2025, 11:42 PM
Last Post: tllim
  pinephone 3 ideas aular 5 4,239 11-08-2024, 06:35 AM
Last Post: KC9UDX
  PinePhone Pro and PinePhone Community Edition Different SIM Card Trays dorkydev 2 2,521 04-11-2024, 03:10 PM
Last Post: Kevin Kofler
  Where PinePhone Pro are Made Tony90 1 2,514 01-18-2024, 09:20 AM
Last Post: Kevin Kofler
  using Zoom on Pinephone andrew907 5 4,047 12-09-2023, 01:26 AM
Last Post: crocspot
Exclamation Why still force us on paypal Jantje 22 20,830 09-27-2023, 08:10 AM
Last Post: zetabeta
  Does pinephone allow you to repair your own device as easily as fairphone? unix21311 3 4,365 11-06-2022, 10:37 PM
Last Post: Harolddavies0

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)