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> 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 selle
by 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 agoI'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.