Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

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Dragon45
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Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

Post by Dragon45 »

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/index.htm

Amazon already makes it insanely easy to spend money on their site; now you can easily spend money on other sites too! :P

This is good stuff; there'll be a few hiccups in the immediate future prolly (there always are with new stuff) but Amazon's customer service record is way better than paypal's, and they already have a giant user base they can leverage - basically if you already have an amazon account, you can easily pay money on sites that have Payments by Amazon accounts.

Spring-devs get on dat shit! :P

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/b ... n=paynow/o

There's the Paypal competitor :o)

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On another note, the days of micropayments will soon be coming. The problem is that credit agencies charge unnecessary amoutns of $$$ for verification and processing; that's where most of the fees come into play.... if a paypal alternative gains significant traction, who knows...? :)
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jcnossen
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Re: Fucking Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

Post by jcnossen »

What's bad about paypal?
In fact I would have bought a lot of stuff from amazon already if they had supported simple money transfer and not just creditcards in holland, or paypal.
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Machiosabre
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Re: Fucking Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

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its cause they don't have the PIN culture :P
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Relative
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Re: Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

Post by Relative »

Paypal does suck serious balls.
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CarRepairer
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Re: Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

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I recently bought an item off ebay for $170 and the company decided to declare bankruptcy or something and not send it to me after I paid. I made a complaint to paypal and somehow a few weeks later I got the money back. I was very pleased with paypal for that.
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Crayfish
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Re: Finally: A good Paypal Alternative

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I've never had trouble with PayPal, but I know people who have had serious problems and lost or had 'frozen' for a long period thousands of pounds. Also their 4% fee is too high for large transactions.
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