posted on September 23, 2000 03:07:31 PM new
As a long time user of a merchant account to accept MC/Visa and Discover, the fees paid for the service have been more than offset by the additional volume their service brought us. No problem with the fee-for-service concept there.
The "free forever" point of view not withstanding, what has galled us is that we are charged the fees even when the buyer (payor) is simply transferring from their PayPal balance. To top if off, when they do that, they get a 1% discount on their payment.
Now, we don't mind paying the fee when the payor is using a CC and PayPal is incurring the discount expense, but to have to pay the fee when no expense is incurred and then finding out that the payor gets a discount...
The whole fee structure needs to be looked at. Meanwhile, I'd recommend that everyone retain their "personal" account status for as long as possible, or until the PayPal fee structure is made fair for everyone.
posted on September 23, 2000 07:39:07 PM new
Give PayPlace or Yahoo's PayDirect a try they're free!!! In 6 months PayPal will have serious competition! Which in the long run is good thing.
posted on September 23, 2000 08:04:35 PM new
I have had PayPlace and Pay Direct accounts for some time now. Just today, I got my first payment with Pay Direct and none yet with PayPlace.
The bottom line is, if our customers don't use them, they will never be sucessful.
posted on September 23, 2000 08:18:26 PM new
Lets revisit this Dodishes (hmm want to do mine) there seems to be a lot of folks hard of hearing on these boards most sellers like myself getting ride of paypal or at least limiting it are not upset about the fees. What they are upset with is the way Paypal who lacks good PR among other things brought the whole thing about. Also how paypal is trying to makes sellers who only took them at their word and didn't upgrade to a business account look like they are the bad guys, leeches etc. . . Well, at least tried to it wasn't very successful. I don't mind the fees. What I mind is their approach to business, bait and switch (which btw is illegal), unethical business practices etc. . . and when the thread were going on here that is what sellers that were upset with paypal were and are upset with.
Coonr they are both based on Volume. You pay a flat fee and then something on top of that from what I have seen on the boards. Billpoint may or may not be less costly, but at least there aren't a billion threads about them and the way things are done seems to be clean and not changing every minute.
Paypal will lay low for awhile, but they will pull something again look at their history.
What has galled us and why some have closed their accounts is the way Paypal handled the whole thing.
