LivingSocial storing PayPal details?

Lufohunter on 04/01/2013 - 17:42

I was wondering if anyone has paid for a LivingSocial voucher using paypal and had it processed without being prompting you for your Paypal login?

With the last voucher I bought, I chose Paypal the continued the payment processes. Next thing I know the voucher was all purchased and I never sawing the paypal screen or got prompted for my Paypal password. I've not seen that happen with any other site before so was wondering if what they do is normal (i.e. are they storing my Paypal password)?

The other issue is that because the Paypal screens was not shown, there was nowhere to selected the Paypal payment type. Normally when I log into Paypal I'll select credit card (because Paypal defaults to bank account). I don't normally use the bank acount so don't have any money in it. Therefore it if uses that default bank account, I could get hit with an insufficient funds fee.

I did call them up but it seemd to be too techincal or something and I didn't get much of an answer. After the customer service girl went to ask someone else, she just said it was something along the lines of "I've used Paypal with them before and Paypal is very safe so its all OK".

If anyone can shed some light, that would be appreciated.

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  • retiredfeline on 04/01/2013 - 17:49

    Maybe you didn't log out of a previous Paypal session before the LivingSocial purchase and the session was still active due to the cookie in the browser so Paypal didn't need to reauthenticate you. Just log out of Paypal and retry the purchase. I always explicitly log out of services when I'm done.

  • alwayscheaper on 04/01/2013 - 21:54

    Definitely sure livingsocial stored my credit card details, everytime I buy with my login I don't have to enter anything else and the payment will go through, so not surprise it will store paypal details.

    • ufohunter on 05/01/2013 - 10:31

      Yes, I knew they stored my credit card details but was suprised they also seemd to have my Paypal login.

  • retiredfeline on 05/01/2013 - 10:59

    I don't think anybody but Paypal can receive your login and password since you only ever type them in to a Paypal form. (And it would be a serious security risk if they allowed anybody else to solicit those since phishers would pretend to be a Paypal login form. Not that it stops them from trying anyway.) So as I said I think it's because your browser still had a valid session with Paypal at the time you purchased so you didn't have to reauthenticate.

  • voteoften on 10/01/2013 - 23:18

    The whole point of paypal is that you are supposed to be safe. If ANY retailer/biller can store the password, that negates the whole point of it.

  • shaiguy on 22/07/2013 - 21:52

    I know this is old but this just happened to me! WTF?? and it debited my bank account rather than my paypal account. Definitely didn't login to paypal and it wasn't logged in. That was BS… I am going to complain.

    Just logged into Paypal and saw this: "Billing Description:
    LivingSocial will keep your PayPal information on file to make future purchases even easier". Don't even know where I gave this authorisation and how I can remove it.

    • shaiguy on 22/07/2013 - 22:54
      +1

      Just figured out how to remove it but have no idea how it occurred originally - guess I probably have to watch out more. To check/remove automatic payments - recommended you check:

      To cancel an automatic payment with a merchant:

      Log in to your PayPal account.
      Click Profile at the top of the page.
      Click My Money.
      Beside 'My preapproved payments', click Update to find your payment.
      Select the payment, and then click Cancel.

      • ufohunter on 22/07/2013 - 23:01

        Thanks Shaiguy for figuring out cancel this and posting for others to see. Like you I have no idea how that was set up in the first place. At least now I know it's cancelled.

      • voteoften on 27/07/2013 - 18:59

        Thanks for explaining. I see Grays online has decided to open a relationship with me. I have cancelled that one.

        I had set up a payment thing with eHarmony a couple of years ago. That was cancelled, but they still had authority to charge me $499.99 per month. FFS!

        Thanks again.

      • Mamajo on 23/08/2014 - 19:06
        +1

        Thanks pal for showing how to cancel the Pre-approved Payment. So glad I stumbled upon this post!

      • skinny on 10/10/2014 - 07:42

        Thanks shaiguy.. Living Social dodgy setting up auto credit without my permission

  • Lancerx on 05/08/2014 - 23:32

    dam..got done by LS taking money out of my bank account…so not happy, I don't wanna use my bank to pay! I want my CC points! Lucky I could get full refund

  • superadmin on 25/08/2014 - 11:44

    Not sure about paypal - http://www.cnet.com/au/news/livingsocial-hacked-50-million-a…
    But they claim to have a cyber attack and are asking you to change your password https://www.livingsocial.com/createpassword

  • CyberMurning on 18/09/2014 - 17:44

    this living social is crap! i just got the same issue as describe in this post.

  • ufohunter on 27/10/2014 - 22:27

    They did it again. Seems everytime I buy something from them, they somehow get added as a pre-approved vendor! have to make sure I cancel them every time.

  • Mad Max on 06/05/2015 - 21:38

    They should not do it

    • anastasiastarz on 27/06/2015 - 03:27

      Probably a part of their policy to store your info when you sign-up.

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