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Re:Noca - Payments Simplified by dangrossman on Monday September 12, 2011 @01:44AM (#2985996)
Compared to my own experiences with even normal merchant account providers, and what I've read of 3rd party processors like 2Checkout, and looking at the state of payment processing for adult sites... if the same people that use PayPal and had problems with fraud were to go anywhere else, they'd probably find it even worse. You only hear about PayPal because it's so ubiquitous with 232 million accounts, so many of them with no other experience with any other method of accepting payments.
Re:Noca - Payments Simplified by JoshTriplett on Monday September 12, 2011 @01:59AM (#2986026)
It's a difference in expectation. PayPal tips the balance incredibly far in favor of the person spending money, to the point of royally screwing people who receive money, because far more of the former exist and the latter want to get paid. People don't just want another PayPal, they want something less broken. We could do with some decently balanced payment systems, as well as a few "caveat emptor, all sales final" systems, but all of them have to get traction with the people spending money and those people don't see any problem with PayPal.