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I'm gradually leaning toward your way of thinking. For a long time, I had the perception, which, I believe, was the correct one, that PayPal == Amateur in the
by pdx 16y ago
I'm gradually leaning toward your way of thinking.
For a long time, I had the perception, which, I believe, was the correct one, that PayPal == Amateur in the minds of your potential customers.
I believe that this is no longer the case. Well, it is the case, but it no longer matters. I still think "small time", when I see a PayPal button, but now I also think "trusted" and "easy refund". These tend to make the "small time" thought less of an issue.
I also think that it's gradually losing it's "small time", "amateur" connotations among savvy web users. For non-savvy web users, which in reality, is the larger population, it never mattered anyway, and I agonized over all of this for nothing.
- justinchen 16y agoI went through the same thought process. The way I see it, if you're a big enough name to be reputable, then you should definitely handle payment yourself, but if you're still trying to get traction and a reputation, leveraging PayPay's reasonably trusted record is a good way to go. For quite awhile both wordpress.com and stumblupon both were using paypal as their payment method for buying credits.