I've got $$ burning a hole in my PayPal wallet! / myLot

United States

February 9, 2018 11:50am CST

I let my myLot earnings accumulate in PayPal until they get to be enough where I can do something with them. Today they went over the $50 mark which is where I wanted them to be. I had planned to use them to donate $50 towards the medical bills of a coworker's husband who has cancer. When I got to the GoFundMe page, I discovered that you can only pay that with a credit card.

So now I have $63.83 sitting in my PayPal account and nothing to spend it on. . . what should I go do with it?

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Sarah Pearse

@LovableSarah (225)

• Canada

9 Feb 18

Link your bank up works. I Transfer back and forth all the time :)

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@JolietJake (50190)

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9 Feb 18

@LovableSarah In the USA you don't even need to transfer it to your bank if you have the PayPal debit card. You can spend it as soon as you get it anyplace that accepts Mastercard.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

Yes. I know I can do that. Just takes a couple of days.

Sarah Pearse

@LovableSarah (225)

• Canada

9 Feb 18

@NJChicaa true your right lol

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@JolietJake (50190)

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9 Feb 18

I was a bit pit-off from making donations through GoFundMe when I realized they charge you the extra percentage for a donation instead of removing it from what you were going to donate to the person.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

They asked for an extra percentage as a "tip" to help offset the cost of running the site but it was optional.

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@JolietJake (50190)

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9 Feb 18

@NJChicaa Um...no, it is not 'optional', at least not when I try it. It insists you enter a donation amount and does not accept 0 It doesn't charge you to host a fundraising event, but it does expect the people contributing to it to donate to the site.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

@JolietJake Dude, that is the DONATION to a particular cause. Yes, you need to donate. That is the whole point of the "gofundme". Below that is the "tip" to the actual gofundme site. See where it says "other" and below that it says 0.00? That is the donation of "nothing" to the GoFundMe site itself.

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vanny

@vandana7 (101973)

• India

9 Feb 18

Aw...that is a nice objective. :)

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

Thanks.

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Marlina

@marlina (154117)

• Canada

9 Feb 18

I always transfer my PayPal money to my bank account and then I can pile it up or use it.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

I used to let it accumulate in my PayPal and then transfer it over to my bank account when it got to be a big enough chunk. These days I let it accumulate in PayPal and do something online with it.

Diana

@dya80dya (36951)

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9 Feb 18

How much time did it take to have 63 $?

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

A handful of months.

Mari24

@Maria24 (2661)

• United States

9 Feb 18

Nice lol you should link your bank account to paypal

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (123186)

• United States

9 Feb 18

It is linked up.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (164216)

• United States

10 Feb 18

Order books for a classroom or children's center or find a charity that does accept PayPal. I keep thinking I need to get a PayPal debit or credit card, but have not at this time.