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Recommendations for Website Payment Systems?

Posted by Cliff on from the that-age-old-question-of-micropayments dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I run a smallish website that provides stock quotes, charts, etc for a very under-reported stock market. (I won't link here due to the Slashdot Death Ray effect, and because this is a real question, not an advertisement). Over the recent weeks, many of my site members have been asking if they could make a small contribution to help off-set costs, which I am considering. 'Tip Jars' seem tacky and I know many people aren't comfortable with Paypal. So, should I roll my own, or are there any highly recommended ways of doing this that I am missing? Any suggestions?"

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  1. yahoo stores by a11 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://store.yahoo.com/ lets you set up a store that takes credit cards directly. you could "sell" contributions in various amounts.

  2. Re:Paypal? by vince1 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Most of the people who are uncomfortable with Paypal are the ones who Think whining about it makes them seem experienced or intelligent.

    Excuse the bluntness, but that is pure bull crap! Take a look at the thousands of horror stories in the Paypal Wall of Shame on http://paypalwarning.com/.

    I would say that class actions lawsuits and thousands of horror stories are very legitimate reasons to be "uncomfortable" with dealing with a company. Unless you are an idiot.

    As it says on the paypalwarning.com site:

    Can PayPal hold my money with no explanation? The answer is YES.
    Can PayPal freeze my account for no reason? The answer is YES.
    Can PayPal take money out of my account without my knowledge?
    The answer is YES.

    We used to use Paypal to sell on eBay but after finding it impossible to to update our credit card and having no phone number to resolve problems, we started searching the net to see what kind of other problems people were having. When we found the Wall of Shame, we closed the account and closed the bank account it was linked to before we became one of the victims.

    I wish more people would boycott companies that treat people so dirty and quit rewarding them just because it appears to be convenient today.