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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by Anechoic on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:41PM (#3088435)
> Google and Amazon now both offer excellent payment systems and I've never heard these horror stories about them. So why don't people switch?

I'll give the same answer I give whenever this question comes up - I stick with PayPal because of the instant access to the money from transactions via the PayPal debit card. Since I sell physical products, this gives me a lot of flexibility in terms re-ordering inventory, moreso than the "deposit to your account once per week/in a couple of business days" policies of other options.

That said, I'm no fool; I sweep my money out of PayPal ASAP and I have an Amazon Payments account ready to go in the event PayPal screws with my account, but as long as things are working with PayPal, I'm going to stay with PayPal (until something better comes along).

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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by chops on Saturday October 08, 2011 @05:47PM (#3089002)
until something better comes along

Like http://www.swipe.com ?

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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by Anechoic on Saturday October 08, 2011 @06:42PM (#3089103)
(presuming you meant https://stripe.com)

Do they offer instant access to transactional cash?

Also this look s like programmer-type offering (I'm not a programmer). Do they offer a bit of HTML I can drop into my website to process the transaction?

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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by chops on Sunday October 09, 2011 @07:52PM (#3091682)
(presuming you meant https://stripe.com)*

Heh, yep. Total brain fart.

I'm not sure about the HTML stuff, but I thought that they do have a js drop-in that should require minimal coding.

Don't quote me on that, but at the very least, it's not as nasty as Paypal seems to be.

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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by edcrfv on Saturday October 08, 2011 @06:01PM (#3089028)
I think you mean https://stripe.com/ ?
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Re:Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal by mahyarm on Sunday October 09, 2011 @01:25AM (#3089751)
I suggested stripe instead of paypal, but was told that as nice as they are a 10 person startup isn't stable enough to trust their payments with, similarly with braintree.
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