[thelist] Paypal and usability
John C Bullas
jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Mon Oct 20 13:47:24 CDT 2003
At 19:16 20/10/2003, Kathy Long wrote:
>About a year ago we had a discussion about Paypal and usability problems
>surrounding it's requirement to log in before purchase. Supposedly, there
>are now some 30,000,000 Paypal users, and some other evidence that states
>many buyers prefer to pay through Paypal. So what's the consensus now? I
>have a client who wants to sell 1 product online. She does not want to pay
>for a gateway just yet, but is willing to get a merchant account as I've
>encouraged her to do. Am I wrong,
Compared to the cost and inertia of getting a credit card facility in her
own right Paypal is GREAT
you can do a lot with paypal functionality.. just live with the commission
you have to pay
FB
we chose it for our mini IMM2004 gathering ..... check out the form
scripting :)
http://www.imm2004.org/IMM2004shop.html (page font sizes soon to be reduced
BTW)
I also use it personally for selling some car stickers ( a nice little
earner too!!!!)
>though. Should she avoid those merchant costs and just go through PayPal,
>or will the merchant account pay for itself in the long run because she'll
>attract more buyers? In other words, will she be losing or gaining
>customers if she only offered payment through PayPal? Any statistics on that?
>
>Kathy
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