First, Paypal wouldn’t let Esther add her credit card to her account. She and I both have the same card number (of course).

So, I called Paypal. They have one of those horrible voice activated systems. They ask you to enter or say your phone number (even though you’re calling from a phone and they could use ANI..). If there is ANY noise in the background, the system believes you’re entering a phone number verbally.

When I finally got the system to take my number, it said it did not recognize it. But when I was transferred to a person (by saying “Customer Service” multiple times, because that’s not an option on the menu, of course!) he knew exactly who I was and asked me to verify my account.

Finally, I’m told that it’s simply not possible to add the same account number to two Paypal accounts. So I guess we have to share one Paypal account (and thus eBay account?) to pay for things. How dumb is all of this?