On 9 Mar 2001 22:43:08 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Tuller)
wrote:
>At 12:27 AM -0600 3/10/01, Jeffrey Greer wrote:
>>With paypal's business account there are no credit checks and the rate
>>is 2.2% for cc payments.
>
You bring up valid points, but I still think paypal could be good for
a lot of e-commerce sites.
>except you can't really integrate it into your web site.
Have you looked at web accept? I think this is pretty integrated.
>who knows
>how long paypal will be around.
With its low rates and ease of use I think paypal will be around
awhile.
>it shoes up as paypal on people's
>credit card statements, that's not very proffesional.
I don't think this would be bad in all situations.
>you can't do
>recurrent billing.
That is a problem.
> you are forcing your customer to give their info
>to a third party.
>
I wouldn't think this is so bad. Many web sites I go to use a third
party to do their payments.
>there's no time delay between the authorization of a card and the
>capture of the funds which means you need to ship the product right
>away, which sometimes, is impossible.
Why does this mean you have to ship the product right away. Don't you
have at least 30 days, by law, to ship a product after you have
charged for it.
>
>paypal might be good for ebay. it's not good for e-commerce sites.
>I don't think so anyway.
Maybe paypal is not good for some sites, but I wouldn't say it is not
good for all e-commerce sites. My web developer partner has been
using paypal for a year and he has had not trouble. His site is at:
http://singles.showmethenet.com/
I'll email paypal and ask them if they plan to move to the level of
professional service offered by other companies.
--
Jeff Greer
- B.S. computer science - Univ. MO - Rolla
- web developer/software engineer,
dedicated to the struggle against the fascist
Microsoft hegemony
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