Paypal
August 7, 2009 by: admin
PayPal provides a very popular free shopping cart system (they take a percentage of sales with no monthly fees). You are able to take credit cards without having to have a merchant account. Just create “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” buttons and accept payments from credit cards as well as payments from PayPal balances. Another factor in choosing the PayPal shopping cart initially was its simplicity. Anyone with basic HTML skill will have no problem with adding it into a page. The process is quite simple. Log in to your PayPal account and click on “merchant tools” and then “shopping cart”. Complete the wizard and then copy and paste the code into your site where you would like the “Buy” button. Nothing could be easier.
There are several problems with using the PayPal shopping cart. First of all there are no statistics available. There is no easy way for you to compare your products’ sales. And there is no way to easily adjust for different shipping rates to different countries or areas of the U.S. There isn’t a cross sell mechanism, and there is no way to easily tell if a buyer is a new customer or a returning customer. And wouldn’t it be nice to compare this month’s sales to last? PayPal can’t do it for you.
Price: Free + transaction fee per sale
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I set up a paypal account to take care of payments I was receiving for goods sold on ebay, to raise funds for my sons hospital carE. Because I was selling so many DVD’s and CD’s, many given to me by friends, Payal assumed they were either copies or stolen property, so limited my account which meant we could not access the funds within the account. I sent over 50 emails and mail 23 calls to paypal to explain the facts around my items and my good reputation on ebay, however they would not listen.So far I have not received these funds, paypal continue to hold them and earn the interest of the value of the account which they will keep. In a nutshell, if you want to part with hard earned cash easy, use paypal, they will gladly relieve you of your cash, and accuse you of all sorts of crimes against paypal, when you try to retrieve it. UsePaypal at your peril!!
I’ve been a good paypal user after spending nearly $2000 so far. I pay prompt and maintained a good rating so far, why do they need my bank account numbers? Why sould anyone trust them? Net fraud solutions are found after the frauds already happened, risking my banking to freezing for 6 months or more, regardless of whose at fault. They offer a good service and they collected their fees, but it’s my money and I prefer to spend it as I chose, no locks, no blocks, no freezes. If I purchase, I spend, if the money is in the bank the seller get paid, paypal gets fees, everybody should be happy, so what’s else is needed?
This is from my true experience with paypal. I occasional sell stuff on ebay and one of ebay payment transactions was reversed recently as I was told by paypal it’s due to the other party’s credit card fraud. At that time, I figured that I should get seller protection from paypal as I did everything required by seller protection policy, specificially
1. shipped the package to a paypal confirmed address,
2. shipped it with tracking number
3. obtained delivery signature
but it didn’t happen that way – paypal reversed the fund and closed the case as they claimed they didn’t receive a copy of delivery signature after I emailed/faxed it twice and even got payapl document acceptance confirmation email! How amazingly bad their service is! Or is it a common practice from paypal to handle things like that? I don’t know. I will just start using paypal less. It should be regulated somehow.
PayPal will steal your money, invest it and reap the profits, while your business is destroyed. If you’re happy with PayPal now, just wait – it will happen to you too.
Here’s what they did to me:
They froze my merchant account, without warning or reason, right at the height of the shopping boom only days before Christmas. Over $12,000 of my money is now frozen in this account and they won’t give it back for, they say, SIX MONTHS. During the time the account is frozen, I am unable to receive money, send money, transfer money, or even issue refunds to my customers. They have essentially put me out of business, because of course, not only are my future customers not able to buy anything from me, but my existing customers who want refunds for items they returned or cancelled hate me because I can’t send refund their purchases.
The only correspondence I can get from PayPal about this is a series of form letters that don’t relate to my specific issue at all. If I call the customer support number (not toll-free of course to further gouge me), after lengthy hold times, poor voice recognition software, and a few transfers to different departments, I finally talk to someone who tells me to send an e-mail to a certain address.
I do as instructed, but the e-mail comes back undeliverable “You can’t send e-mails to this address” it says. I call back, and am told the same exact thing. I demand to speak to somebody else because this doesn’t work, and I’m told they don’t take phone calls – you have to e-mail. They finally divulge a second e-mail address I can use. I try it, it comes back with a form letter response, and I never hear anything else.
This continues for a month or so, every day, with dozens upon dozens of faxes, e-mails, phone calls, all at my expense, and countless misinformation and dead-ends. Finally I receive an e-mail that says “Your appeal has been denied. We’re holding your money for 180 days and then we’re closing your account”.
Later, my personal e-mail account was also seized (another $350 or so in their pocket) citing “You are too high risk” – what is high-risk about a personal account? This is total BS.
I later read on such good resources as http://www.paypalsucks.com that this is common practice for PayPal – what they do is invest your money that they’ve stolen from you and receive a return on it while you are unable to access it. With so many customers, they get big bucks from fraudulent practices such as these, and they don’t care at all about how many people’s businesses and lives they ruin in the process.
Check out http://www.paypalsucks.com, http://www.paypalwarning.com, and http://www.aboutpaypal.org and read dozens and dozens of other stories like mine. Or just search for “PayPal sucks” and see that you find 708,000 results on Google.
Stay away from PayPal if you value your business, your good name, and your money. If this hasn’t happened to you yet, it will.
1. Can PayPal block your account for no reason?- YES
2. Can PayPal reverse your transactions without your consent?-YES
3. Can PayPal reward scammers and deduct money from your account without you knowing it?-YES
4. Can PayPal suspend you for offering Google check out instead of PayPal?-YES
5. Will PayPal cancel your eBay account and all your auctions without ANY explanation?-YES
The list can go on and on. If you would like to work in stress-free environment with a company that has customer service and operates for it’s customers instead of against them DO NOT CHOOSE PAYPAL.
So far Paypal is the best. But for a wordpress e-commerce blog of course you will choose that wp plugin.
Very easy to use and set up. Ideal for simple shop with a small number of products. The main limitations are that each and every product has to be coded into the HTML source of the page, ie every product needs its own HTML web page. No discounts are possible, no alternative shipping options are possible etc etc.
Main advantage is that it takes minutes to set up. I used it as an instant means to get our shop online and taking orders, but I intend to graduate to something with more functionality once I have the time to learn the more advanced techniques necessary.
Paypal is an excellent place for one to get started and off the ground. It certainly isn’t a permanent solution, nor a solution to provide dramatic growth, but until you “get the bugs out”, learn what running an online store demands, and establish sufficient revenue to justify the costs of gateways, shopping carts, and all the aspects of a real payment processing system, take it easy the first couple of months with Paypal.
In other words, learn to walk before you run.