PayPal won't run transactions referring to tardigrades

[Natural Citizen]

It figures it'd be something like this.

Archie McPhee, sellers of curios, realized that any PayPal transaction containing the word "tardigrade" — that being the name of the adorable tiny space-surviving creatures they sell ornaments of — would be blocked.

We've contacted them and they told us we should just stop using the word tardigrade,"

PayPal won't run transactions referring to tardigrades

Archie McPhee, sellers of curios, realized that any PayPal transaction containing the word "tardigrade" — that being the name of the adorable tiny space-surviving creatures they sell ornaments of —…

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[Natural Citizen]

Apparently, it's because part of the word tardigrades is tard.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Hmm…

A private company making business decisions it considers beneficial to its business success.

Shocking.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Apparently, it's because part of the word tardigrades is tard.

Which would certainly be an appropriate word to describe whomever it was at PayPal that came up with a policy banning the use of the word “tardigrade”, though I would prefer that the full word “retard” be used.

 

[Shawnee_b]

Gotta be kidding.

 

[whitehall]

Makes you kinda want to buy the crap doesn't it? Maybe that's the intent.