Salsa_Shark: Why is it being gimped and whats the point if you cant send money with it?
Well, simply put, I can no longer send money to anyone who isn't a business. So I can't send money to my folks, can't send money to people to pay for items (such as when buying a game in a 4-pack on Steam) and so forth.
We're also not allowed to add money to Paypal (the only way to get money in a PayPal account here is to have someone send it to you).
And I actually also rely on PayPal to receive payments, especially for some translation work, and now that money is fucking useless for the most part -- can't transfer it to a bank here as the banks will bitch and moan about a service they don't understand, will delay the transfer for several months and then deduct 60% of the transferred amount as their fee for being complete wankers. Yes, I foolishly tried it once.
soulgrindr: i never got it to work in the first place, how did you manage it??
Really? It's always worked by just clicking on the Send Money link and filling in the information. Now, the Personal Payment tab is most certainly gone after tomorrow and I have a horrible feeling that even the Purchase tab will go. (The difference between the two being that Personal Payment allows you to pay the fee, Purchase forces the recipient to pay the fee).