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Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

bsuvc wrote: post #88

We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?

I have never had bad experience with PayPal. I use it always when it an option and I give out my credit card info very rarely (e.g. it has to be actually life altering product/service and not support PayPal for me to input my credit card details.)

If I was sponsoring someone this change would put end to that. I don't want to give my credit card details to Github.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by benhurmarcel »

gpanders wrote: post #163
TT-392 wrote: post #56

Guess I won't be able to sponsor anyone anymore. I guess as a US based company they are expecting everyone to just have a credit card.

You could use something like https://privacy.com/ . In fact, I’ve been using a Privacy credit card (connected directly to my bank account) for GitHub sponsors since I signed up.

It's only for US residents

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by pragmatick »

derkades wrote: post #128
fshbbdssbbgdd wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I buy things through PayPal a lot. It’s purely out of convenience. It saves me the steps of entering in my address and credit card info when buying something online. If the checkout page offers Apple Pay or Stripe, I’ll use those instead, because they’re even easier. I’ve never had any problems with any of these payment services. I also like that both PayPal and Apple provide a centralized UI where I can revoke…

PayPal still charges about a 3-4% + 50 cent fee. Not as large as the exorbitant 30%, but still a lot compared to the tens of cents it costs for IBAN payments in the EU

The german antitrust agency recently started an investigation into PayPal because they forbid businesses to offer lower prices to customers which use a different paying method. If they succeed pressure on PayPal might increase if you pay 2% or so less for using a bank payment.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by SergeAx »

As a non-US citizen one of the worst user experience in fintech I had was PayPal. Especially when I tried to stop using it and it just didn't allow me to just pay by entering card data without login, even in anonymous mode. There also were couple of moments when alternative card payment processor failed to bill my card, but PayPal managed to make it. I understand that US barely have any alternatives, but still.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by SergeAx »

bsuvc wrote: post #88

We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?

There was a moment when I needed to buy an expensive ticket from Qatar and their Visa processor was unable to bill my card. PayPal managed to get my money to airline. I appreciate that, but still thiunk that creating user experience worse than that of PayPal is a non-trivial feat.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by solarkraft »

bsuvc wrote: post #88

We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?

I consistently have a pretty good experience with PayPal if you discount the ads and nags on the Website. The merchant "horror stories" actually give me a lot of confidence that whoever I buy from will be sufficiently motivated to fulfill their side of the contract.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by eXpl0it3r »

SergeAx wrote: post #185
bsuvc wrote: post #88

We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?

There was a moment when I needed to buy an expensive ticket from Qatar and their Visa processor was unable to bill my card. PayPal managed to get my money to airline. I appreciate that, but still thiunk that creating user experience worse than that of PayPal is a non-trivial feat.

What's so extremely terrible about the user experience?

As a regular user, I can't think of anything that would've annoyed me, beyond sending official emails that look like phishing emails, and then support not even being able to always distinguish whether it's a valid email or not.

Other than that, I've added a credit card, can press the pay with paypal button, login and pay for my goods. Nothing to complain in this loop really, so I'm curious what your perspective is.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by permo-w »

Daz1 wrote: post #141
permo-w wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Funny you say that when nineteen eighty-four was a warning on the logical endgame of left wing ideology.

this is what I mean. a complete - bordering on deliberate - misunderstanding of everything the man stood for. have you read any of his other books?

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by lakomen »

I quit PayPal when they broke their promise, that I can refund any transaction if I get scammed (not literally, I'm talking about buyer's protection).

I've been using it since 2006. A few years ago I bought something in a browergame and they scammed me. I created a case and they replied with "where is my proof".

Account deleted, there's my proof. They will never see a single cent from me.

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