Yesterday I ordered a couple of books from Snuggly, using PayPal. I got this message from PayPal:
I've used PayPal for years with no problem, and I've ordered books from Snuggly before with no problem. Today, wondering why the transaction is
still pending, I did some web searches to try to figure out what PayPal's message might mean. I thought it would be something banal and routine, but comments I found indicate that PayPal sometimes leaves transactions in limbo for days or weeks while being utterly unforthcoming as to why.
And I found a couple of people who evidently had transactions held up because their order contained the name of a certain Egyptian goddess. Suddenly I understood the probable reason my order is being held up: I ordered a book by an author named Is*s.
So, at this time, I believe some hapless PayPal employee is trying to figure out whether Justin is an international security threat. (And I do wish them luck in
that investigation!) I was thinking that surely they will quickly realize this is just an innocuous book order, but then with a sinking feeling I remembered that the title of the other book I ordered is
Graves.
This is all kind of funny to me, but the implications of it really aren't funny at all. Surely I'm not the only
TLO member who has ordered a book via PayPal by J Is*s. Has anyone else run into this?
06-11-2019
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