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Paypal, remove the offensive "need a new skipper" commercial

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Stacy Schrader
8 years ago

This is a horrible and insensitive message. Please remove your awful commercial.

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Sabrina Peterson
8 years ago

This is one of the most messed up commercials I have ever seen. I will be deleting my paypal accounts ASAP because I don’t want my money going to someone so stupid.

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Kailah McAllister
8 years ago

Birds are not a disposable pet. They are a life l9ng friend.

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NANCY DONOVAN
8 years ago

SHAME,,,, SHAME ON U , PAY-PAL

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Jessica Weiss
8 years ago

This is beyond tragic and shows pure ignorance on both PayPal and the director. First and foremost a bird is not a disposable object. This is a living, breathing, animal that has the intelligence of a dolphin. Secondly if a bird flies out of the window its odds of survival are little to no, so you are basically killing the bird off in this scenario. Thirdly it shows improper care to the bird with the VERY small inappropriate cage with no toys. If this were done to a dog in a commercial you would have to deal with animal right groups being extremely upset and depending the removal of the commercial. It saddens me that it is OK for you to basically post that a bird is an easily replaced expendable object.

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Laurie Soma
8 years ago

My Quaker Pompeii is not replaceable! He is an amazing little bird!

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Elaine Thomas
8 years ago

This add is extremely irresponsible! From the type of cage used, no toys, open window, and treating someone's pet bird like they are disposable! Please take it down!

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Janelle Tait Kovner
8 years ago

How cruel, heartless, insensitive and offensive can you be? The person whose bird died is still suffering. Remove that photo immediately. I will share this story with every Facebook bird/parrot group I am in, plus my bird club of 385 members. Do the right thing and remove this photo.

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Joel
8 years ago

Stupid commercial! Birds aren't throwaway pets! Wrong breed replacement anyway!

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Anonymous
8 years ago

This is problematic on many levels, and shows willful ignorance on the part of those who produced it. No parrot should be housed in such way, with insufficient space and absolutely nothing to stimulate its mind. That is cruelty, and it perpetuates the dangerous myth that birds can live happily with nothing but a cage and some food. The thought that a parrot -- with a highly individual personality and typically years of special training by the owner -- could be switched out unknowingly with another is ridiculous and insulting.

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Margaret Ouali
8 years ago

Not good

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Anonymous
8 years ago

This commercial is ridiculous. No sane parrot owner would have a bird in a found cage, with no food or water toys especially near an open window. The bird also wasn't replaced with the same species!

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Vickie VonSeggern
8 years ago

disgusting careless attitude all the way around !

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John Stoop
8 years ago

This is upsetting, and PayPal could do better. This isn't what I think of when I think of PayPal.

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Jennifer
8 years ago

Birds r not toys to be replaced so easily

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brad
8 years ago

please take down bad choice...

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Renee Lands
8 years ago

Please remove this commercial.

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Bobbi Barker
8 years ago

remove this commercial

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Karen Wakefield
8 years ago

Please take this ad down. It is not funny someone losing a beloved pet. Disgusting Paypal.

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Trina Miles
8 years ago

This is not ok. A bird is not something that you just forget about if he/she flies off, and buy another one. They are life companions, family members. This is wrong to all bird owners, and to any pet owners in general.