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Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by TT-392 »

hhh wrote: post #68
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.

Or a debit card.

They say that in the article, but at the actual checkout the only options listed rn are paypal and credit card. Also, honestly not even sure my banks debit card would work with something like that, only thing I ever used for paying online is ideal (a dutch payment standard)

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by kiwijamo »

gernb wrote: post #22
Karupan wrote: post #7

I’ve always used PayPal on GitHub for sponsoring great devs since it’s the lowest touch option. Strange that there is no explanation as to why it’s being stopped.

Is a paying github user it's not the lowest touch option. For me they just bill me on the card I'm already paying them with so easier than paypal.

I'd imagine most people making donations are using their personal accounts which are unlikely to be paid subscriptions.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by AdamGibbins »

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 use Paypal a fair bit to pay via Amex in the UK, where the underlying store doesn't take Amex but does Paypal. No complaints there.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by handsclean »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #23
redox99 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blows my mind that that's legal. If they lock your account they should be obliged to still show a form to withdraw to a bank account you own.

It wouldn't blow your mind if you did a bit of research. Payment processors will ALL (including stripe, authorize, adyen, etc) lock your account (with your money still in it!) if: 1) You're taking money for a product that will be delivered in the distant future (like tickets for an event, or preorders) 2) Your account has a sudden change in ticket size or quantity 3) You're violating their TOS. On HN that might look…

I have trouble believing that you were always able to get to the bottom of it and determine it to be one of these causes, not only because it entails a remarkable ability to connect with many otherwise unresponsive posters, and the because it’s so easy for a person to read a challenging story and just assume that missing pieces would make it fit a prior conviction, but because it’d be pretty remarkable if I’m really the end of your ten-year streak. Hi. PayPal stole from me and I fit none of those points. I had a personal account, a friend made a habit of repaying me via PayPal despite my already knowing better, PayPal allowed it for a while then switched to accepting transfers to my account but barring withdrawals or return transfers, in effect taking out a non-consensual unannounced month-long loan from me. You can tell me how PayPal may have become confused and incorrectly believed I’m taking pre-orders, breaking their TOS, money laundering, etc, but those beliefs are factually incorrect, my usage was not inappropriate, and it’s very different to say “PayPal only does it when X” and “PayPal only does it when they believe X, which they frequently do mistakenly”.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by modriano »

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?

It makes a lot of my transactions very low friction and significantly increases my willingness to buy things from small independent sellers on the web. I don't really ever have to think about PayPal, but now that your question has made me stop and think about it, I quite like PayPal and think it's quite a good bit of infrastructure.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by makeitdouble »

teewuane wrote: post #76
tibbon wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen that PayPal's support, APIs, documentation, etc., is substandard. Downtime events are frequent. Getting in touch with a human is impossible.

I have actually had a really good experience with braintree (a paypal service, competes with Stripe).

Didn't they go down and zombie up for almost a week during Fall ?

Braintree might have been decent as a startup/small player, but getting pushed to the same stage as Stripe make them look struggling IMO.

Used to interface with Adyen and Stripe in the past, and PayPal's Braintree part is way laggier and prone to errors.

Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal

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Post by illiac786 »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #109
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?

Yeah, I've sold over $1M worth of stuff on eBay since 2011 and have mostly good things to say about them. Much better support than eBay or Amazon, at least for merchants, and the few times I've needed them as a customer they've helped me out. Even one time when I was socially engineered into ticking the "item received" when I hadn't received the item, they helped me get a refund. I think a lot of the bad stories you…

I can assure you the customer experience, when the purchase is above a 1000$, is also atrocious. They will send you in circles. Scammers do use paypal, there's a reason.
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