Last night I watched my friend trying to buy a vehicle. It was so painful.

I drove my friend to pick up a vehicle he was going to buy for a few thousand, we got to the sellers property at around 7pm.

My friend thought he could either use PayPal or bank transfer easily and that would be that. Good God no. There were two people at the property with a PayPal account, my friend tried to send the money to both accounts. First they thought my friend could just send the money to an email, nope. Then the sellers were bumbling around trying to remember their passwords to their accounts and when they finally did, they realize that they weren't verified. They both go through the process to verify. At the end they realize they have to wait a few days to be accepted. Pfft.

My friend tries to transfer through the mobile banking app, denied. My friend then calls his bank to transfer the money. The bank tell him he has to transfer the money after midnight and couldn't do so now! WTF! My friend then has to log in to Internet banking on the sellers laptop. Adds the seller as a payee and then finally sends the amount. But wait, it doesn't instantly transact because it's a large sum, it transfers the next day. Luckily the seller wasn't too bothered and just took a picture of the confirmation of transaction and handed the vehicle over. If it was any other guy our journey would have been a waste.

Madness. Spent 45 minutes trying to send a few thousand to a private seller. Granted my friend could have just withdrawn the money earlier in the day but he leads a busy life and didn't have time.

Today's shit is too damn inconvenient.

Submitted March 07, 2019 at 03:53PM by rxylab http://bit.ly/2IY38ft