Problem: I'm going for an interview far away, and the company is going to reimburse my travel expenses. Their only payment option is Paypal.
Solution: Get a Paypal account.
Problem: I already have a Paypal account, but it's "located" in Poland, which is rather inconvenient, due to different currency etc.
Solution: Move the account to the USA.
Problem: You cannot change country of Paypal account.
Solution: Close the account and open a new one (that's what it says in the FAQ). There's this handy giant "Close account" button in account settings.
Problem: The button doesn't work (inb4 Spaceballs). After clicking it, I get a screen that says: "Before you close the account: Something went wrong". Well, yeah, I guess so.
Solution: Call the Customer Service and make them close the account.
Problem: Because I'm cheap as fuck, instead of calling Polish department (ie. making intl call at the rate $5/min or something), I call American one. The result is, Customer Service Guy that I was connected with has limited access to my account, which mean he can close it, but only if the balance is 0. My balance is 0.04PLN (at the current rate it's equal to 0.01089USD; slightly more than a penny).
Solution: Forward my call to an Account Specialist, who hopefully can do it.
Problem: Customer Service Fucktard hit a wrong button and I get redirected to nonexisting number, which ends my call.
Solution: throw a few kurwas, call them again, be sure to make it extra clear to Customer Service Gal that she better not repeat the same mistake.
Problem: She tells me the only way is to call the international department located at country code +31, which is Netherlands. As I said, I'm a cheap fuck and don't want intl call.
Solution: tell her that; she forwards me to a local number instead.
Problem: Account Specialist Gal says she cannot close my account if I have a positive balance.
Solution: Tell her to zero my balance. The account gets closed successfully, and my penny-and-a-tenth hopefully goes to SpaceX researchers.
Problem: With the account closed, I can finally open a new one. So I go to homepage, click "Sign up", enter e-mail and password, click next, enter my address, click next, BAM! "Something's wrong with your information." That's literally the error message I've got. Zero useful information on what's wrong.
Solution: Call Customer Service.
Problem: If you tell Customer Service Siri that you have no account and want to open a new account, she enters the tour guide mode and tells you what steps you have to take on the website to sign up. She doesn't react to any commands except "Next", which gets you to next step, or "Help", which instead of helping, repeats the instructions but in more detail.
Solution: Enter Konami Code, ie. press 0 which places you in proper CS call queue. It's worth noting she never says that it is an option. At least she's not as bad as Verizon's Siri, who refuses to put you up with a representative the first three times.
Problem: Customer Service Gal #2 has a problem understanding that my closed account isn't the one I'm calling about, and that my new account isn't set up yet.
Solution: Retry signing up in order to tell her the exact error message. Try a different password, one that doesn't contain "ł" (that's not dirt on your screen, that's a lower case "Ł" which is like "L" but with a strikethrough). Be not surprised that this time it all worked. (Note: the website says that my password is A-OK.) Because I'm in Good Samaritan mood today, I decide to let the technical department know about the problem.
Problem: Customer Service Gal #2 has a problem understanding that the issue is fixed. She tries to make me change website language to English, but instead of telling me that, she guesses what I currently see on the screen and tells me where to click. The problem is, none of the buttons she mentions exist anywhere on my screen, neither when logged in nor out, neither on homepage, dashboard, nor account settings. This last one actually has a combo box to select language, but in a different place than where she insisted it is. Did I mention the whole website has been in English all the time right from the start?
Solution: None.
Workaround: Eventually she gives up and we go back to the issue of Polish letters in passwords.
Problem: She says that since I'm registering in the USA, my password has to be in English, so obviously non-English characters won't work.
Solution: Cry inside. Tell her to connect me with technical department (repeated half dozen times; I've already got used to it with her).
Problem: They have no technical department. That's literally what she said. There's no such thing. Nowhere I could be forwared to with my bug report.
Solution: None.
Workaround: Fuck this shit.