[thelist] To have an SSL Certificate or Not?

Matthew Pulis mpulis at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 13:02:35 CST 2009


Thanks for all the help :)

Btw regard the flash video : to Youtube it and embed or better wmv / flash
and play it on the site itself?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Matthew Pulis <mpulis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Barney,
>
> I was thinking also to do a flash video to help the clients - you know
> those where you record your browser and then i add some comments and explain
> further at the page below.
>
> This should help the clients figure out their way better i guess
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Barney Carroll <barney.carroll at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> For my piece, I'm familiar with the stigma, but I also know that PayPal
>> have
>> made it much easier on the user recently. Matthew, you might want to write
>> a
>> little aside on 'how easy it is to use PayPal these days' on the page
>> before
>> payment if this concerns you?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Barney Carroll
>>
>> barney.carroll at gmail.com
>> 07594 506 381
>>
>>
>> 2009/12/1 Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz>
>>
>> >
>> > > Your customers no longer need to register with PayPal to buy things
>> from
>> > > (or donate to) your website.
>> > >
>> > > For a few years now, you can use either the simple PayPal "buy now"
>> (we
>> > > use "Donate now" on evolt.org) buttons, or their more advanced API's
>> and
>> > > your customers do need to have, and do not need to create, a PayPal
>> > > account to complete the sale, and so they also don't have to do the
>> > > "associate the credit card" or "link the checking account" steps that
>> > > used to put people off so badly.  Buyers can just do regular
>> > > "drive-by-payments" with their credit cards just like on any other
>> > > shopping cart or merchant account.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > David, this is great and yeah I think this illustrates the general
>> > problem, perception or not.  Unless you as a developer/designer do
>> > regular work with systems like this you may not be in the know. I've had
>> > my PayPal account for maybe 4 years, not sure, so I guess then I qualify
>> > as old-timer and  have the registration process ingrained in memory.
>> > Then along came the business account and 2 deposits yadda yadda.
>> >
>> > It's not like we routinely zap our historic accounts then test out the
>> > new process as we're sitting alongside a client.
>> >
>> > Just a bit of morph memory time - I celebrated the day I got my paypal
>> > account linked to ebay business.  The walls crashed when I moved,
>> > physical addresses.  eBay and the verification process was true horror -
>> > an hour in a chat session got that fixed - for a week only. This made
>> > PayPal look like a sweetheart by comparison.
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>
>
>
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