On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:08pm, Scott Morrison wrote: > Why not use a payment processor such as esellerate or fastspring -- I know > that Esellerate does subscription payments. I have just heard of too many > people get burned by paypal.
There are lots of anecdotal stories about people getting burned by PayPal, and I feel for those people where the problems occurred. But often when you read into it deeper you realize the people were doing something slightly amiss, like using a personal PayPal account to engage in business transactions, or creating a PayPal account days before accepting massive $thousands of dollars of transactions. I.e. doing things that look like fraud. I'm not sure what the magic bullet is for avoiding these fraud-flags at PayPal, but I have so far (knock on wood) had no problems and I think it helps that my account is in my business's name, is linked to a legitimate bank account, and it may also help that it's a Website Payments Pro (monthly subscription fee) account. I only took the time to chime in because, although PayPal gets a lot of flak, I consider them a really useful part of my business and they have saved me a lot of time and money over the years, if I add it all up. The perfect compromise for what I need. Rock bottom commission fees with a completely customizable public-facing UI. Daniel
