View Poll Results: which if any do you use most frequently?

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Thread: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

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    Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    I am interested to know how many people use online payment solutions. like paypal ect. and which are most popular. if you have more than one. please choose the payment solution you use the most.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Quote Originally Posted by j1979 View Post
    I am interested to know how many people use online payment solutions. like paypal ect. and which are most popular. if you have more than one. please choose the payment solution you use the most.
    I wish i had not answered paypal (as I don't like them one bit) but for ebay access, ebay has largely made paypal the only option. I have used google checkout, worldpay and nochex, and been happy with them.
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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Wish it wasn't the case, but Paypal by a country mile.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    the worst kind of monopolist, but paypal.... Their customer service is one of the worst I've ever found in any industry, they charge a fair bit of money for seemingly nothing, and you have no choice but to use them for fleebay.
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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Thinking about it, considering that eBay has a monopoly on internet auctions, and Paypal on personal online transactions, I'm surprised that nobody has investigated it yet... or if they have, I'm not aware of it.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    paypal charge a fair bit of money for seemingly nothing.
    They effectively give out credit card processing merchant accounts with no vetting, no monthly fee, and no 3 month payment hold, just a 3.4% fee.

    Banks often won't even consider giving merchant accounts to businesses if they haven't been in business for 2 years, and even then the terms aren't great (monthly fees, 2 month rolling payment holds - you can access paypal funds immediately)

    Paypal filled a niche, but many people don't realise why other companies didn't want to take the same risks.
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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Got to be careful about the phrasing of the question:

    which if any do you use most frequently?
    I picked Paypal even though I only use it very occasionally but I don't use any of the others at all.
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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Paypal but only because I have to! Customer service, what customer service?

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    I never used any one of these method to withdraw or transfer the money. But these method could be useful.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    As with the general tone of the above comments, I use Paypal when I have to and only when I have to. Sometimes, it's about the only convenient option. But I've only ever used it to pay for things, and even that, only occasionally and reluctantly.

    I've also used Worldpay on occasion. I trust it more than Paypal, but am not a fan of any such service any avoid them all wherever possible and feasible.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Paypal - the only option for ebay, and also a convenient way to send people money off my credit card when I'm edging close to my overdraft limit!

    I can't say I particularly like paypal, mind you - but I've also got no specific complaint against them. The only problems I've ever had were trying to pay for goods at ebuyer and scan using paypal - for some reason the payments just wouldn't go through. But I just wrote that off as a system problem, reverted to good old fashioned card transactions, and probably won't try it again. The things I *need* paypal to do, it seems to manage pretty well...

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    hate paypal, but use it.

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    I use PayPal mostly to buy things, and on the other side (Web Admin etc) use Worldpay at work as that's who push online payments through

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    So, it's paypal then... pretty much as i expected. The reason i ask is because i am making a new site, and need a easy payment option. Paypal for e-commerce, can also accept credit and debit cards as long as you can the right paypal account. have i understood correctly?

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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    Quote Originally Posted by j1979 View Post
    So, it's paypal then... pretty much as i expected. The reason i ask is because i am making a new site, and need a easy payment option. Paypal for e-commerce, can also accept credit and debit cards as long as you can the right paypal account. have i understood correctly?
    I think you asked the wrong question then, what you should have asked is which online payment service that you have used do you trust the most. For me that would have resulting in Worldpay, google or nochex and definitely NOT paypal.
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    Re: Online Payments providers.. do you use them?

    I offer the customer choice of Google Checkout, Paypal and direct credit card payment on several sites I run.

    Paypal is actually by far the most frequently selected - which surprises me,
    must be people using their existing paypal balances from ebaying etc.

    For a time I was heavily pushing GC (they had free processing), but still had loads more paypal payments.
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