Comments on: Gotta Love PayPal

By: shpend

shpend — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:24:32 +0000

ahahahahha anice

By: no

no — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:44:33 +0000

By: Marc Perkel

Marc Perkel — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:22:27 +0000

PayPay’s user agreement allows them to just take your money and keep it. Freezes your accounts, holds you money for 6 months. And they really do that. Here’s a link to my blog documenting my experiences with PayPal and why I won’t do business with them again.

http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000276.html

By: When PayPal Just Doesn’t Cut It

When PayPal Just Doesn’t Cut It — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:58:16 +0000

[...] I’ve had a few posts praising PayPal for its simplicity and incredibly short setup time. I understand it has a lot of enemies (as you can tell from some of the comments here), but for a very small business just getting started, it really can’t be beat. [...]

By: Christoph C. Cemper

Christoph C. Cemper — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:14:37 +0000

You are absolutely right… ten-to hundred-thousands of users are on paypal… alone my 300 clients…

so that would alone deserve a bit more special implementation of support for their recurring transactions – you should allow them to handle it and put your system on tier2… the fact that it works a bit different than all other auto-bill gateways shouldn’t be a reason to leave that func out of your system.

Christoph C. Cemper
A hopefully soon Freshbooks-user

By: CokeBear

CokeBear — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:12:31 +0000

You have got to be kidding me. I always find it amazing how something being “popular” translates into it being “good”. Many people eat at McDonalds – that doesn’t make it good for you or the food healthier.

As mentioned in the comment above, Paypal is known for having questionable business practices and screwing people over. There is a reason it is hard to get a merchant account (and believe me I know, as we are starting a web business and are going through the frustration that apparently all Canadian-based businesses go through with credit card acceptance). The reason is, they check people out.

Paypal doesn’t. They just hand accounts to anyone who has a credit card or bank account, and then when someone commits fraud (for example, with a stolen credit card) they take the VENDORS money. You know, the person who had nothing to do with actually accepting the credit card?

Paypal is sleazy. Paypal doesn’t follow the rules – especially the ones from the credit card companies themselves that say that online payment processors MUST assume all the risks for fraud without passing it along to the vendors. Paypal is a bunch of bullies using “popularity” and the general mindlessness of most people online to make gobs of money at little risk to themselves.

No Virginia, you don’t gotta love Paypal.

By: PayPal is Unethical & Fraudulent Company

PayPal is Unethical & Fraudulent Company — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:19:33 +0000

Please, discover the following websites & open your eyes to reality of PayPal.

http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/2004/09/do_you_hate_pay.html

http://www.paypalsucks.com