The MetaBrainz PayPal account has become a testing ground for people to test stolen credit cards. We were constantly getting tons of donations (dozens per DAY!) of tiny donations at first. Then they turned to $1 donations. And now they are $30-$40 per piece. And each and every one of these gets challenged and the money turned back over to PayPal. In the process I get about 3-5 emails in total about for each of these donations. Plus it clutters our books with tons of useless entries that make oversight of the books a real pain. I’m really sick of this!
Google offers their checkout services and even offers special deals for non-profits — I would very much like to switch over to Google Checkout. Can you think of any reason to not dump PayPal and go with Google Checkout?
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I think there are still a lot more PayPal accounts out there than any other payment system, so while it’s a pain, I wonder what kind of revenue you might be sacrificing.
That said, I can’t think of any reason not to support Google Checkout. You might want to try supporting both for a period to do trial runs with Google before dumping PayPal?
Paul:
At the same time, there are plenty of people who would like to donate, but refuse to do business with PayPal. I wish I could easily quantify these two camps.
Do you have to switch? Can you not use both?
Matt:
The PayPal scammers have us pegged — I think only closing the account can help stop the fraud spam. PayPal seems helpless — I had a long conversation with one of their engineers and I’m convinced that PayPal is totally useless these days.
But I have some ideas on how I can keep PayPal and use checkout — I have to consider all the options still.
I don’t like Paypal, but with ebay it is the most common and Checkout is
not very common.
And when i want to donate a few dollars i don’t have to set up another account
It is very difficult to give you advice what you should do
I have you looked at Amazon payments? I expect a fair amount of our visitors will have an account at amazon already anyway. But I’m not familiar with the service from the POV of a developer.
What are the requirements for paying with Google checkout? Paypal is widely known and used and offers quite a few options for transferring you money. Google checkout seems to be pretty new and they offer not much information on how the system works, but I fear it’s still a bit limited.
Isn’t it a matter of time before Checkout will be abused as well? Are there still enough real donations coming in from PayPal? Supporting both might be a good idea to get more donations. Stop supporting PayPal is likely to decrease the amount of donations since it’s still widely used. I’d say go for both for a while. If the real donations from PayPal turn out to become ‘insignificant’ then stop using it.
Simple: PayPal != Credit Card. In Germany, I can pay with PayPal directly from by bank account and a credit card is not that popular. Google Checkout is not available in Germany, so you’d miss out.
I can see international usage being a concern, but I can see using something other then paypal be a good move.
Google checkout is great only see the issue while calculate shipping with UPS and server call back time is only 3 sec.
hi
i want paypal account, anybody doing???