[vox] [OT] Paypal (was E-commerce/Credit Card...)

[Tim Riley]

Matt wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 22:12, Ken Herron wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, April 09, 2003 08:47:19 PM -0700 Charles McLaughlin
> > <cmclaughlin@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently designed a website for a non-profit organization that would
> > > like to accept donations online.  I've found that credit card processing
> > > services are expensive -- the cheapest I've found is ~$20/month.  This
> > > isn't feasible for the organization I'm working with.  Now I'm thinking
> > > of using PayPal, since there is no monthly fee.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > One of these mentions Affero, <http://www.affero.com/>. I don't know
> > anything about them other than what's on their home page, but you might
> > check them out.
>
> Oh not to mention chargebacks; if you deliver anything over the
> electronic medium for a sale and that account was hacked and the
> original owner says it was accessed without consent expect PayPal to
> charge the seller for the amount lost...
>
> PayPal is fine if you have no issues, have any and you're usually the
> one paying the cost, not PayPal.
>

The risk of chargebacks apply to the vendor no matter where the
merchant account is housed. If someone chargebacks a transaction,
the best you can do is not sell to that person or address anymore.

>
> Matt
>
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