"Steve Lusardi" wrote in message
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Edgar,
PP has started a service where you give PP authorization to direct debit
your account in Germany and they credit the seller's account
automatically, if you engage that method. Everytime I use PP now I see 3
choices of payment on the screen.
Steve

I am in Norway, not Germany, not that it affects the matter under
discussion.
I would never contemplate giving PP or anyone else any such authority across
international boundaries.
If anything goes wrong they know you will find it too much of a PITA to sue
someone in another country under foreign law for relatively small amounts.
.. And things do often go wrong and when they do you are on your own.
My wife got the compensation from her bank that I mentioned in my last post
only because she absolutely refuses ever to be fobbed off with excuses or
inaction when someone wrongs her, and persisted until they gave in. It is
more trouble than it is worth now even to close your account and move it to
another bank because of all the procedures they have brought in to check for
money laundering.