Sunday, March 28, 2021

PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, or Something Else?

 #paypalsucks

Jim Ostrowski

I’ve gotta switch. What’s the best alternative?

Karen Kelly

Some of my clients use Zelle.

John Heinen

I refuse to use it. Every since someone tried to scam me on something I was selling online, a ca, using PayPal have no use for them

Adam Wilson

Zelle is the most secure

Brad Smith

It depends on what you are selling and where. For some things, there really isn't a viable alternative, not if you want your sales to stay high. Sadly there are millions of people who won't buy many products on-line any other way. The best solution I found was to sell on as many sites, that don't use PayPal as possible. Amazon, reverb, etc. I tried offering various alternative payment services over the years and my sales would still drop drastically the minute I stopped offering PayPal.

It's a downright horrible service for sellers but for buyers, especially scammers, it's fantastic. Paypal sides with the scammers just about every time and even when they don't it still costs you a shit ton of time dealing with their terrible system.

I'd love to see someone come along and kick them off the top or at least grab enough of the market that people would feel equally comfortable using something else.

I never found an alternative that allowed me to dump PayPal completely, eventually, I retired without finding one. If one exists today, let me know and maybe I'll come out of retirement. LOL

Robert Paxon

I use it every day, all day. Love it. The only reason Venmo is better is that they currently have no fees for sellers.... but they will.

Andrew Rogers

Robert Paxon

 PayPal owns Venmo. lol

Robert Paxon

Andrew Rogers

doesn't really matter, as to my point.

PayPal charges me a fee to accept MOST payments, Venmo doesn't.

Mark Laythorpe

Agreed.

Michael Rebmann

I've been using PayPal for 20 years as a buyer and seller. Never had a problem.

Jim Ostrowski

Michael Rebmann

 payment on hold 21 days. Had the account for years. No response to complaints.

Robert Paxon

Michael Rebmann

same here. 10s of 1000s of transactions. online and in-store. never a problem. except when an eBay sale is disputed (item is lost or whatever), always resolved. 

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