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Paypal Alternatives: Want Your Opinions!
3 years ago
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Sup Peeps!
Good Day to all you lovely folks!
SO! Paypal has really been sending up red flags of late, as you may be aware, and it's last threat to it's users was the final straw. I am actively shopping around for an alternative payment platform, maybe even two just to be widely available.
I really want to avoid putting any of you out or causing any inconvenience when it comes to hiring me for a commission, so I want to get as many opinions as possible on what alternate payment platforms you might be using on FA or what you think is the most common. I honestly would like to yeet off PayPal completely, both to make a statement and to keep myself safe from any bullsh*ttery that may come from them in the future, but for now, if people really don't have another means to do business with me, I will work with you through PP, but I would like to eventually get off of it completely.
Please share any recommendations you have so far! I have mostly been peeking at Stripe and Wise, but the options are a bit overwhelming, so any help you folks can provide is GREATLY appreciated!
In the meantime, I have just created a Boosty page, though I am not too familiar with these patron type things, so bear with me while I try to get things set up.
You can visit my Boosty here if you like! Boostify the Lox!
Again, thank you all for whatever tips or comments you have on the matter.
SO! Paypal has really been sending up red flags of late, as you may be aware, and it's last threat to it's users was the final straw. I am actively shopping around for an alternative payment platform, maybe even two just to be widely available.
I really want to avoid putting any of you out or causing any inconvenience when it comes to hiring me for a commission, so I want to get as many opinions as possible on what alternate payment platforms you might be using on FA or what you think is the most common. I honestly would like to yeet off PayPal completely, both to make a statement and to keep myself safe from any bullsh*ttery that may come from them in the future, but for now, if people really don't have another means to do business with me, I will work with you through PP, but I would like to eventually get off of it completely.
Please share any recommendations you have so far! I have mostly been peeking at Stripe and Wise, but the options are a bit overwhelming, so any help you folks can provide is GREATLY appreciated!
In the meantime, I have just created a Boosty page, though I am not too familiar with these patron type things, so bear with me while I try to get things set up.
You can visit my Boosty here if you like! Boostify the Lox!
Again, thank you all for whatever tips or comments you have on the matter.
Thanks for the input! :)
If you read the prints, they are basically all the same, and having other payment processors access to payment information as a customer is also pretty scary. I don't know how these companies handle security and frauds. I do know how PayPal handles it though, which is why I use it.
Just my two cents as someone who's trying to purchase things, rather than receive money. I know in Canada we could use Interact E-Transfers technically, but that's a Canadian thing.
It's bad, because fraudsters use PayPal and other payment methods. It hurts everyone involved.
I just wish politics would stay the fck out of my payment platforms. I just want to do business and not worry I'll get dinged for some made up bullsh*t or not having some hive-mind mentality.
It seems like things often just eventually go sour with companies. Once they get so big, they think they can just do what they want to their customers and the customer has no choice but to comply. But when they do that, I very much like to move onto someone new who hasn't (as of yet, at least) gone mad and support them until the inevitable comes. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" has become a sort of Mantra to me over the years and always seems to ring true.
But yeah, at least e-transfer is a possibility for some. But I understand that option is not appealing to new customers who may not trust me to deliver, yet. I wonder if I can have someplace where my trystworthiness has been rated/weighed in on by my past customers that I can give to new customers to prove I am legit.
I trust ya, always have. And I tried submitting you to a "trusted artist" thing, x3
Politics and Scams are rampant right now unfortunately, and it sucks that payment processors are taking brunt of hatred. They gotta make money too, and chargebacks hurt them.
I don't know what the perfect solution is. Unfortunately, I just don't like placing my money info, especially not my bank info, on many websites.
i have been taking a look at https://stripe.com/ so far it seems ok and have heard some good things about it.
I know that you can also contact your credit card issuer for chargebacks, but I've never done that, so I don't know how the process works or if they'd pose any problems with yiff. Happy to listen to others' experiences with them.
All in all, any alternative needs to give me some guarantees that if it's a scam, I'm getting my money back.
There's also the possibility of, say, throwing an extra $5 on top of the commission price for using PayPal. That might help disincentivize people from using it when you also give them alternatives.
(Although come to think of it, I think NSFW is also forbidden according to their rules, so it's not like they don't have enough excuses. )
I already operate on a slippery slope with PP since I am pretty sure Digital goods like my drawings are not really a thing they allow, if I remember correctly (correct me if I am wrong), so I'd want to avoid other No-No practices they could ding me for like surcharges 'xD
Thank you for the inpur, though! Always appreciated!