Comments on: PayPal Gets In Trouble With Australia’s Aborigines

By: Paul D'arville

Paul D'arville — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:34:32 +0000

I think it’s a disgrace and should be removed!
I think they should use the five dollar note instead, it would make an improvement on the note and the queens face.I am an australian for a republic of australia.

By: Fred Agnosties

Fred Agnosties — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:33:12 +0000

Aborigines are always complaining about the problems THEY make for themselves.

They get houses given to them – within 3 months the houses are ruined!

They get cattle stations given to them – a year later all the cattle are dead, the range rovers are husks, and the abo’s are all gone walkabout.

The bleeding hearts all whinge and moan about their health – In Kalgoorlie, you give them a house, and next week it’s bashed it and they’re living in the front garden inside a fucking watertank.

Aborigines are NOT human, they are monkey-men, a distinct off-shoot of some monkey species that’s close enough to true humans to mate with (although mating with an abo make you candidate for the insane asylum!).

By: samkharven

samkharven — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:18:32 +0000

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By: David Symons

David Symons — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:10:27 +0000

PayPal should apologise.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:49:31 +0000

The thing is, THEY ARE USING OTHER BILLS IN THIS ADD AS WELL, not just the $50. No one is even mentioning this fact cause they want to paint the picture that PayPal is targeting the Aboriginal community. I’m pretty sure the other bills have dead people on them, so why isn’t it disrespectful to them?

Anyways, I don’t see what the big problem is.

By: Alan Bradford

Alan Bradford — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:06:51 +0000

This sounds familiar. I’m thinking of two things:

1. Geico
2. Disgruntled Cavemen

I’m not up on my Aboriginal history or culture, but this sound a little silly to me.

By: lemming

lemming — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:56:10 +0000

Paypal gives a sh*t on it’s customers or people.

By: Yes

Yes — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:31:23 +0000

Here here!

By: Go home abo's

Go home abo's — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:30:00 +0000

LOL you fucken idiot. All abo’s do is sit around, drink metho and get drunk. They live in the outback, nowhere near here or any other city. They don’t contribute to our economy OR society and just complain and complain. I wish we could send them all over to New Zealand.

By: JM

JM — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:07:26 +0000

The more I look at this ad the more ridiculous it starts to look… They made a joke of this poor guy on the bill.. blinded his eyes to show just his unconventionally shaped mouth… The type of thing you do with monkeys to make the public laugh… I can’t help but feel that Greg’s is right when he writes:

“This reaction by the aboriginals is so stereotypical of what we see daily in Australia it very well could have been planned by Paypal’s marketing company in advance – making it an effective campaign.”

Shame on PayPal for doing that… and for the Australian marketing team who knew very well what they were up to!

The aborigines have been humiliated and their culture destroyed, now PayPal is using the hyper-sensitiveness that comes from decades of genocide to create controversy, thus making their campaign very effective. But is it really?

With this controversy also comes all the negative reviews on Paypal as we see here.. I was about to offer paypal as the main payment option on one of my web service, now I’m having second thoughts…

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:17:41 +0000

This is just a tech-taste of the way Australian aboriginals react to a very wide range of issues.

While there have been some mistreating many decades ago, this (from paypal) is far from that story continuing. Because they are able to get so much sympathy and monetary gain from the complaining they do, they extend it as far as possible.

This reaction by the aboriginals is so stereotypical of what we see daily in Australia it very well could have been planned by Paypal’s marketing company in advance – making it an effective campaign.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:06:38 +0000

‘Bikies’ is Australian for ‘bikers’. Rebels, Hell Angels, etc are bikies.

The Reserve Bank of Austalia is also under fire from the same Aborigines as they claim those that did give permission for his image to be used on the $50 was not a relative authorised to make that decision.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:05:45 +0000

There’s obviously no cultural taboo amongst Caucasian Australians regarding the use of images of dead people so of course this would be an acceptable solution to everyone. I think your fantasy that Aborigines would be slighted by this solution just shows your prejudice.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:46 +0000

The relatives are complaining to the Reverse Bank about the use of the image on the $50 note. They claim that the person who gave permission to use the image was given by someone posing as a relative.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:56:48 +0000

Tryps, it doesn’t sound like you are an Aussie. If you were, you’d know that this is an issue that is particularly culturally sensitive. Before any shows on television over here that contain images of Aborigines, there’s a warning that says “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons”. It doesn’t seem to me to be too onerous on PayPal to be a bit sensitive to the culture of the original inhabitants of this place.

By: RickyM

RickyM — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:55 +0000

So, if I understand you correctly, now we’re blaming Paypal for this man’s face being on Australian currency?? All Paypal did was use a picture of Australian currency in an ad. If there was any injury, then it was done by the people who decided to put the man on the note in the first place.

Is there any particular reason that no blame is being assessed there??

Just curious.

By: RickyM

RickyM — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:52:50 +0000

Whoa …. so shouldn’t their complaint be with the Australian government to have his image removed from the currency?? I mean, if having him on the bill is an insult to his people … then what the heck is it doing there in the first place??

By: RickyM

RickyM — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:49:38 +0000

Well, would everyone be happy if Paypal used a different denomination of bill?? One with a Caucasian Australian figure rather than one who was Aboriginal in origin?? Or, would they then start complaining that their hero was being slighted? It would be a little ironic if that were to happen.

So, Paypal …. just change the freaking type of bill on the ad … put a helmet on someone from a group of people who understand that helmets are a good way to keep from ending up with your brains scattered all over the road and leave it at that.

By: KevinH

KevinH — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:45:37 +0000

Gary – “I live in Australia (but I’m not Australian) and PayPal is one of the best/only options for small online businesses over here (we don’t have Google Checkout) and banks here charge you for having an account with them (I’m originally from the UK where that doesn’t happen) so obviously setting up a merchant account which can take credit card over the internet is going to cost a fortune with any of the banks here.”

I am in exactly the same boat (I’m even a pom living in Oz). I to used to think Paypal were great for the same reasons you do. But just wait til you have a problem with your account – then you’ll change your tune. Like me you’ll be begging Google to open Checkout here in Australia.

Come on Google – thousands of Australian traders hate PayPal – you have a golden opportunity to enter the Australian market and immediately capture a chunk of PayPal’s market.

As for PayPal, their response simply demonstrates their arrogance and indifference to the Australian market. Whether it was legal or not, the smart thing to do (from a PR perspective) would have been to apologise and remove the ads. End of story.

By: jamescamerongray

jamescamerongray — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:43:15 +0000

Perhaps the man’s relatives are being a little precious and their attempt at financial gain from the reserve bank over the incident does detract from the credibility of their claim but their culture does have an aversion to viewing images of deceased relatives, let alone images that are being used for commercial purposes.
On top of that after Ebay’s attempt to force Australians to ONLY use paypal on ’security grounds’ I say screw ‘em, let the natives be a thorn in their side.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:54:18 +0000

paypal sux. They cheated me out of $47.23 from my remaining account and would not pay me back. Their customer service would not tell me why, just that they would give me money. Someone needs to investigate paypal, it’s doing illegal stuff.

By: Yuri Ammosov

Yuri Ammosov — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:51:18 +0000

Did relatives of the old guy complain when Australian government put him on the $50 notes?

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By: nemrut

nemrut — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:55:06 +0000

..that’s because you dont carry the baggage of being repressed and spat upon

By: nemrut

nemrut — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:53:03 +0000

Evan, you make Aussies look bad…