A while back I created a web site for a rental property in Ocean City, Maryland called Show Me The Beach.
Recently I was asked by the owner to update the PayPal link, as it wasn’t working any more. To my dismay I could not find anything on PayPal’s site about how to create a link to send money without setting up a business account. So I set out on my own to try to find a URL that would work to link to.
It didn’t take long, I noticed that on their main page there was a link to send money. The link on went to https://www.paypal.com/sendmoney. I clicked on the link and viewed the source of the page. I then found that the field in the form for the recipient was named email. I tried the following URL https://www.paypal.com/sendmoney?email=you@ihatespam.com and to my surprise, it worked! It filled the recipient with the value you@ihatespam.com! Below you can see a screenshot of the page.
Not sure how long it will last, but for now you can again create a URL that will fill in your email address that you can give people to send you money from PayPal.
Update 2010-10-16: This no longer works.
