What is paypal and can I use my gift card to buy stuff offline using paypal?

Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 8:55 PM

Question by sweet sugar: What is paypal and can I use my gift card to buy stuff offline using paypal?
What is paypal exactly??? I got $ 100 gift card for christmas and I wanted to buy victoria secret exclusive clothing off of ebay. The girl that is selling it says she excepts paypal. But what is paypal? Can I use my gift card through paypal?

Best answer:

Answer by a tax lady
Paypal is only able to accept eBay gift cards. All others are not allowed. Even then you must have a valid account that has a real credit card linked to it.

These policies are designed to weed out underaged users.

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