Thursday, April 3, 2014

Paypal Releases The Worst App Ever....

 Around thanksgiving of last year I noticed a sign in my local coffee shop "The Bean" saying " Use your paypal app and your Lunch is free!" so I downloaded the app and I got a free lunch for a couple of weeks in a row, then paypal offered more free things as long as you used the app to pay. I got a beautiful steak at Dickson's Farm Stand in the chelsea market for free, espresso affogato, burritos, indian food...it was too good to be true....well it did come with a catch, it only works about half of the time......you'd be standing on line to pay and then when it was your turn, there was some glitch with the app or I hadn't signed in properly and someone from the store would have to walk me through it, or, I just wasn't showing up on their screen for some reason so I'd have to close out the app and res sign in again, or their internet was down.....it worked about half the time and the other half of the time I'd be subjected to some annoying , shameful experience. Then it got so bad that business' that were listed on the app put up signs saying "PAYPAL NOT ACCEPTED!!!" or they'd say "Our Internet is down" This happened to me the second time I went to Dickson's Farmstand Meats when a new after christmas promotion was listed on paypal. I ordered a duck leg confit to go and when I said I wanted to use the paypal app to pay, the cashier said that their internet was down. The building in which they are located "Chelsea Market" is home to many internet based businesses such as birch box etc and they are right across the street from the google building and their internet is down....hmm, that seemed a little fishy. Then other business' which were listed as having offers refused the app or I would buy something and the discount would not be applied so I'd have to spend 20 minutes on the phone with paypal and sometimes they would rectify the problem and sometimes not.......I did get a lot of great free stuff and discovered some amazing local business' my favorite discovery is "I am Coffee" at 9 St. Mark's place where they make an incredible Mochacino with hand shaved chocolate on top and it's free! As long as you use the paypal app....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I ordered something at I Am Coffee once. They ring up the order after they prepare it. I told them I was paying with Paypal (yes, to use that offer) and was refused. Not because of a technical glitch, but because they aren't accepting it anymore. Then stating "we don't have the app, which is a blatent lie, as they obviously did, and if they don't can easily get it again. There was no sign anywhere stating this (if there was that would have been fine), and they sprang it on you at the end when they already prepared your $5 coffee. Like I wrote, I ordered something once, and definately won't again.