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I have the same problem but I'm based on Italy. Banks can be really expensive but paypal is too evil for me to even consider it. If you've been here for more th

I have the same problem but I'm based on Italy. Banks can be really expensive but paypal is too evil for me to even consider it. If you've been here for more than two weeks you've seen how many horror stories about paypal are published. I'm considering google checkout and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with them. UPDATE: based on another response, I learned that google checkout is available only for USA and UK customers? That makes it pretty unusable in my opinion. Are there similar services?

andrew1 17y ago
> paypal is too evil for me to even consider it I've never used PayPal (other than as a purchaser) so don't know what they're like to use for the average seller, but that statement seems a little strong. I imagine it's very much the case that the few percentage of people who have a bad experience make up a far larger percentage of the people writing blog posts about PayPal. So it might be that 2% of people have bad experiences with PayPal, and 80% of them write it up on their blogs, while 98% of people haven't had any problems with PayPal but only 1% of them write about their great experience. So something like 60% of the things you read about PayPal will be negative. All those figures are pure speculation, and PayPal may be absolutely terrible to work with, but I think it's worth bearing in mind.
- oscardelben 17y ago
  I've used them for selling physical products. With that I had no problems, because they could track the process, but I had to fax a lot of papers to them. The problem is when you are selling non physical products, that's a different story because they can't guarantee security. What is evil to me is that once you are blocked, they can't do nothing. A common point I hear from people who have problems with paypal is that although they have sent fax and spoken with real people, they can't re-abilitate their account. Another scaring thing is that most times (this is very common through ebay sellers, which I was one) is that they can keep your money! So imagine that you go live today and you sell 100 copies of your product for 30$ cad, and your account gets blocked and they keep your 3,000$, that's the reason I'd like to avoid dealing with them in the first place.

andrew1 17y ago

> paypal is too evil for me to even consider it I've never used PayPal (other than as a purchaser) so don't know what they're like to use for the average seller, but that statement seems a little strong. I imagine it's very much the case that the few percentage of people who have a bad experience make up a far larger percentage of the people writing blog posts about PayPal. So it might be that 2% of people have bad experiences with PayPal, and 80% of them write it up on their blogs, while 98% of people haven't had any problems with PayPal but only 1% of them write about their great experience. So something like 60% of the things you read about PayPal will be negative. All those figures are pure speculation, and PayPal may be absolutely terrible to work with, but I think it's worth bearing in mind.

oscardelben 17y ago
I've used them for selling physical products. With that I had no problems, because they could track the process, but I had to fax a lot of papers to them. The problem is when you are selling non physical products, that's a different story because they can't guarantee security. What is evil to me is that once you are blocked, they can't do nothing. A common point I hear from people who have problems with paypal is that although they have sent fax and spoken with real people, they can't re-abilitate their account. Another scaring thing is that most times (this is very common through ebay sellers, which I was one) is that they can keep your money! So imagine that you go live today and you sell 100 copies of your product for 30$ cad, and your account gets blocked and they keep your 3,000$, that's the reason I'd like to avoid dealing with them in the first place.