I have heard horror stories with PayPal, but I cannot confirm them. Some people simply do not like the company. Also, note that Paypal as a business is famous to implement censorship policies that tend to be shocking in my part of area of the world: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/legal-censorship-paypal-makes-habit-deciding-what-users-can-read
and http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/bankers-wikileaks-free-speech Best, Charles. Le mercredi 19 septembre 2012 à 14:36 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : > I dont know why people are so apprehensive of paypal. They can still send > payments through them without even needing an account with them. > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 09/19/2012 04:07 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote on 2012-09-19 00:44: > >> > >>> Is there any reasons why Paypal payment services, for taking payments > >>> from a card, not working for TDF donations? > >>> > >> > >> PayPal will not be removed. However, we had dozens of people asking for > >> offering direct credit card payments, because they specifically would not > >> like to use PayPal, so direct credit card payment is another option we > >> provide. > >> > >> Florian > >> > >> > > Well, the one thing I like about PayPal is the "insurance factor". If you > > buy something online and it never comes or some fraud is involved, you can > > get your money back through part of their service agreement. So if > > someone, say on eBay, states that they do not take PayPal payments, they > > are to be avoided. > > > > I do remember that PayPal has/had a credit card service for those "buyers" > > who do not have a PayPal account. That was a good service. > > > > So what TDF is doing is setting up a system that takes various credit > > cards directly through the card company's service, or are you contracting a > > payment service company that processes the card "purchases"? > > > > I do like the reoccurring monthly payments. The you can set up a > > "donation" cycle, like you do for monthly Internet hosting accounts, so you > > can just set it up and forget about it, allowing the donations to be "sent" > > monthly without any hassle of remembering is you sent in a donation that > > month. > > > > Actually, from a marketing standpoint, having a direct credit/debit card > > system makes TDF "look" more professional. Almost anyone can setup a PayPal > > payment system, but it takes a true "professional" business to get a direct > > card payment service. Or, at least in my area of the world. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > website+help@global.**libreoffice.org<website%[email protected]> > > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > > List archive: > > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**website/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/> > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
