PAYPAL [was] [ANN] The reason why I was so quiet recently.

[Ian Wood]

On 19 May 2008, at 13:23, Malte Brill wrote:

> Hey Colin,
>
> > Well, I got to 2nd best score for the last 20 days during my trial
> > play time, but sadly I can't buy it, as I've had bad spam  
> experiences
> > from using PayPal, and so won't use them anymore.
>
> Actually this is a very interesting topic. Is there any Web payment  
> method you would trust? The reason why we use PAYPAl is that it was  
> pretty easy to integrate with our Key generator. Also PAYPAL does  
> charge the lowest fees for a transaction which helps us keeping the  
> price down.

This is of interest to me as well, as I use PayPal as the main payment  
method, for pretty much the same reasons as Malte.

As a relatively heavy Paypal user myself, I get roughly 20x more eBay  
phishing emails than I do PayPal, which makes for maybe one every two  
months for PayPal.

It's also worth pointing out (as I do on my payments pages) that you  
do NOT need a PayPal account to pay via PayPal - just a credit card.

What does everyone else use? Kagi, eSellerate, Share-it?

Ian

P.S. Just this morning I got "Sadly, with the conversion rate, your  
cool program costs $75!  I hope that
the $ bounces back.  Perhaps offer a US discount?" in the inbox.  
Insert the rolleyes emoticon of your choice here...