News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Good riddance, PayPal by Osiris on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:42PM (#4484987)
I've been using PayPal plus another payment provider to provide other payment options and I can say that I get almost no chargebacks with PayPal. I think I've had one in the past year. The other company, I get several chargebacks a month. Their fraud protections just aren't nearly as good as PayPal.

In fact, I often spot fraudulent charges very quickly and have to email my third part processor to refund or cancel the payments.

I was pointed to http://maxmind.com by another HN poster, which is an API that'll give you a probability of a charge being fraudulent so you can verify it before passing it to the payment provider. I'm going to test that out in combination with Stripe.

Re:Good riddance, PayPal by pc86 on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:25PM (#4485199)
Is Stripe that other provider? I've been contemplating switching but I agree with your sentiment that PayPal's fraud detection is the best available right now.

I'd definitely be interested in seeing a write-up about integrating Stripe with third-party fraud detection systems.

Re:Good riddance, PayPal by Osiris on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:27PM (#4485487)
No, I haven't currently implemented Stripe. It's another payment processor, the kind that provides their own payment page.