PayPal vs. Other Payment Methods

anyone know where I can get some stats?

[Craig_F]

I've read a few posts here about PayPal preforming pretty well compared to other payment methods. Does anyone have any real back up for that? Looking for stats that I can link clients to. Thanks!

[digitalv]

I don't think there is any "collective" of information on the subject, and I wouldn't trust any polls or surveys because they're based on sample data not actual numbers.

The best way to figure this out might be some good old fashioned research. See if you can find out how many transactions PayPal runs in a day/week/month/year/whatever and then find out the same information for places like Authorize.Net and other payment gateways. That should give you a pretty realistic idea of PayPal vs. the others.

[Morocco]

That's a good question. I would be very curious to see who's doing more.

VeriSign vs PayPal

Auth.net vs PayPal