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whyceecee wrote:

Hi All

I'm a newbie to this forum but I'd like to say that I've been using PayPal very happily for about two years and no problems. It could'nt be easier to put Buy Now buttons on my site and I'm happy to refer others to PayPal. =D

Welcome to the forums!  Glad to have you here.

I too have used PayPal in various forms.  The only reason I would not use it is that many users are PayPal adverse.  I often wonder just how many people are turned away from services like the ISEDN who only use PayPal (although they are getting Stormpay soon).

I am not sure about Stormpay - it seems to me that any of these third party processors are going to have the same reputation as Paypal.  The next best alternative is to setup your own merchant account, which from experience can be a royal PITA.

tulip4heaven wrote:

Paypal doesnt support all countries  like pakistan and some others

No, but many payment processors have trouble with these countries as a lot of fraud comes from them.

I've had a PayPal account for several years and use it specifically for eBay purchases and sales. It makes it much easier for me to do business for the small items.

I did go through the process of linking my bank account so I could become "verified." But I had a very bad night with lots of nightmares about all my money being taken from me "accidentally." Even with all of PayPal's guarantees - nothing is impossible. The next morning I removed my bank account information.

They had an incident recently where I won an item on eBay but everytime I selected "Pay Now" I got directed to a page asking for all my bank account information. I had some very frustrating conversations with PayPal customer service where they told me an upgrade messed everything up. My time ran out on the auction and I lost the item. Oh well, probably didn't need it anyway.

PayPal added a feature where you have to enter your password everytime to do a transaction. It's the same password you log in with but you have to enter it again to process money transactions.

When I take credit cards for my company I will use a merchant account through my bank.

Hi All,
I am completely new to this forum and I only found it because I subscribe to SitePro news, but I found this topic of Paypal very interesting as I do know from my stats I use through statcounter that on a few occassions, some of my potential customers turned away once they got to the paypal section of the buying process.

I would like to addressmy question to Matte if I may, as I am from Australia also,

Matte,
My website only sells to the US and I use dropshipping for all of my physical products, which is the reason I use Paypal. The only other option that has been recommended to me is Worldpay which is an actual credit card merchant (they charge about $250 to set up). But I notice you mentioned that you feel the best way is to just use your bank as a merchant. I use ANZ for my business banking, but I was wondering if by using ANZ as a merchant (or any other Australian bank for that matter) would result in the merchant being wary of accepting payments purely from the US. The other issue I think of is that my customers may think being from Australia is risky to do business with because I'm offshore.

Do you sell to customers overseas and does it pose a problem from either the bank or your customers?

Best Regards
Dean

Moneybookers could be a pain in you know what... they require too many formalities to sign up and then if you use for personal turn to ask you to business account sooner...

Is there a payment processor like moneybookers where customer can send bank wires to their account and then funding to your account? I find out about xoom.com but they allow bank wires only from US..

Cheers

Gbuy?  Yep, I've heard about it and wrote an article on it.

Its my contention that Gbuy is much ado about nothing.  I really don't see them as being the PayPal replacement.  I think they will take their own share of the market, but I don't see them as being a PayPal killer.  That talk seems to be coming from bloggers and pundits who want something to talk about.

I use PayPal for Ebay. I also have PayPal on a couple of sites just for donation purposes and have received a few donation from them. I would steer clear of using PayPal if at all possible on a business site but I do not see a problem in using it on more casual sites.

The above mentioned sites that I use it on are both casual sites, like one is just community information and the other is a game shard site for online gaming. I DO NOT however, leave large amounts of money in my PayPal account and I DO NOT have it connected to a bank account either.

So in short, my vote would be YES for casual money exchanges but NO for a REAL business. PayPal just looks lame, unless it is an option, but not the only option.

I've been using paypal for a while now.

First signed up to buy things on ebay

Then used it to sell on ebay

Then used it as a billing option on my invoices.

Now implementing it as the only method of buying products and services in a new business venture.

As a web user, designer, developer and SEO I can see things from all angles. Paypals recent developments allow people to pay via paypal without the need for a paypal account.

Their tools and support for integration into your own applications is great, probably second to none!

Pioneering companies like paypal will always be a target for unstructured criticism and malicious attacks - the best always are; and they make them selves better by rising above the sh*t thrown at them and ensuring their security is as good as it can be, protecting the people they serve.

in the 5+ years of using PayPal i've had one person write (e-mail) me to say they would not use it because of troubles they had experienced with PP and eBay. how many people didn't write who felt the same way, i have no idea. my sales are dead in the water right now, so i'm questioning everything. (admitedly, travel to Cancun seems to be dead in the water too.) so, i think i'm going to start experimenting with Google Checkout. of course, i also wonder how many people who visit my Site hate Google? tim