Please take my money. It’s far too hard to have my own money.

PayPal just sent this email:

Many of you asked us to make tracking your PayPal Debit Card cash back simpler. You got it.

Starting August 1, 2009, the cash back earned on your PayPal Debit Card transactions will be combined into a single deposit and paid monthly, rather than after each transaction, making your record keeping easier.

Your cash back rate won’t change.

OFFS.  Thanks, PayPal!  It was so frustrating, having to do things like withdraw my balance at regular intervals to invest it.  Or, for that matter, leave it in my PayPal money market sweep account and accrue interest on it every day.  Thank you!  This way you can have the interest on my money, and I don’t have to worry about it!

Your cash back rate won’t change.

Yes, assholes, it will.  Daily compounding and monthly compounding are different.  That’s why you’re doing it.  And for that matter:

Many of you asked us to make tracking your PayPal Debit Card cash back simpler

No, we didn’t.  We asked you to please give us back the running ledger that let us know whether our cash back had posted without downloading a comma-separated history file.

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