> How do you get people to come to your website, to trust your service and give you their credit card details? There are several ecommerce website aggregators

> How do you get people to come to your website, to trust your service and give you their credit card details? There are several ecommerce website aggregators and search engines, where you can hook up your website (export product list via XML) and promote your products. You don't need to handle ccard info at all. You can use direct bank-bank money transfer, or use post office to get you the money from the customer on delivery. Post office is regulated and can't refuse you service. > You have to use something like PayPal or Stripe No you don't. There are many other options, individual banks and other third parties offer payment gateways (where you can accept credit cards). I know about at least 6 common ones, and I'm sure there are more. Not US. Economics of this clearly work well enough. It's so weird. I live in a country that's 30x smaller population than US, and we seemingly have more ways (that are workable and widely used), to help sellers sell their stuff in an independent way, deliver it, and accept payments for it, without being dependent on semi-monopolistic unregulated third parties like PayPal or Amazon.