Ivana - 12:10 pm on Oct 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

I tried to sign up with PayPal as a normal customer but didn't succeed. They got the setup charge all right, but I never retrieved my password, which is supposed to show up on your next bank statement next to the set up fee transaction. But this doesn't work on (some?) European accounts, there is no additional text on the statement, it just states the currency, the date and the amount.

Customer service kept insisting that it would show up though, and they wouldn't even let me close the account because I didn't have my password...

So you have to take that into account. It's probably an excellent service if you only have American customers.