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Oh, God, a Visa-owned Paypal... They'd ruin it in less than a year. Paypal is the best option for small and medium size online transactions at the moment. Ama
by jotm 13y ago
Oh, God, a Visa-owned Paypal... They'd ruin it in less than a year.
Paypal is the best option for small and medium size online transactions at the moment.
Amazon, Google, Apple, and Square all want to own the payments space, and Paypal is still the only one that actually works worldwide.
- sdrothrock 13y ago> Paypal is still the only one that actually works worldwide. Speaking someone in Japan, it's pretty hard to effectively use Paypal here because it requires (requires!) a credit card. Also, nobody uses it here, so there's no point in jumping through the banking rigamarole to get a working Japanese Paypal account. I think Paypal never took off here because it's amazingly easy to just send someone (anyone) money very quickly from an ATM as long as you have an account number.
- calbear81 13y agoDoes PayPal require a credit card to use in Japan? It works fine with bank accounts and credit card is an option (with a fee).
- sdrothrock 13y agoI could have sworn the last time I tried (I admit that this was half a decade ago) that I decided it was unusable because it required a credit card to do anything and I couldn't get one as a low-salaried foreigner on a short-term visa. I've been using my US PayPal account all this time -- which actually works better since everything I use it for is in the US.