Paypal Good or Bad? - Page 2

booklowertravel · #16 (**permalink**) 05-15-2007, 10:01 AM

Paypal works, but it is limited in taking your business to the next level. For one people see you as a mom and pop shop when you use paypal. Paypal order form if someone does not have paypal account can turn off your customers. You have to include the fees that paypal charges to recover your cost. However, if you are just starting out, paypal is your best bet. There are similar order sites like paypal. One I think is called Worldpay. You can search for it on google. They offer very secure ordering for your customer where the customer has to verify by email that they made the order.

2fer · #17 (**permalink**) 08-31-2007, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by fs.bb

Please, understand that I'm honestly not here trying to bash PayPal. I am a Business Owner trying to help you see EVERY side of PayPal.

For more info you can check out http://www.paypalsucks.com

If you do decide to go with PayPal, its not as if they're going to intentionally be gunning for you. Just be very careful and read their rules carefully.

Good Luck

I used to use Paypal and thought it was the greatest thing on earth. You are right, even being careful, sooner or later they will get you. I am stuck again with Paypal because when I left Paypal after they "got" me for close to $1500, and opened a merchant account with payments through VeriSign, then Paypal bought VeriSign. They just forced me over to their Paypal Manager virtual terminal even though I still have 8 months all paid up with "VeriSign". I have a short paragraph on that website you mentioned, which I never heard of until I wanted someplace to post what happened. They are trying to clean up their act, from my own experience, but once burned....

PosterBoy · #18 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007, 05:51 PM

I've been using Paypal for a long time now and haven't really had any problems. A few years ago there was a problem with our account and I recall that it was h*ll trying to get their customer support to fix it. In the end we had to abandon that Paypal account and open a new one.

But, that was a long time ago and I haven't had any reason to deal with customer support recently. Maybe a lot has changed.

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