Okay, PayPal is killing me

What is a good alternative to PayPal?

[Lokutus]

Can anyone recommend a reliable merchant account provder that doesn't gouge?

You will prolly have to sticky mail it to me as posting links is verbotten.

[oaktown]

Don't worry about them gouging you, worry when they go off-line completely. Like they are right now.

[Lokutus]

This is the first time I have had a problem with PP. Their fees are pretty reasonable.

Looking at alternatives, I am horrified by the gouging going on.

[Lokutus]

PayPal started malfunctioning last Friday.

Now it's Tuesday and it's still not working.

Is this the greatest online screwup in Internet history?

[cabbagehead]

Ha! One more reason to hate paypal. I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't like them. I always look for a way around using them when I buy things. Their fees are too high, their interface is horrible, I don't like that they require having so much of my bank and credit info on file to use their service, and their servers are piss slow. Now they're unreliable to boot. Good job Paypal!

Sorry I don't have an answer for the original poster .. but man, I'd love to know what the alternative is too!

[Lokutus]

PP's total fees are a miniscule to what you'd have to pay through another merchant account provider. Right now I'm pricing the others and finding that they'd cost me 10X as much on average with all their fixed monthly fees.

[badtzmaru]

I think the greatest screwup in internet history, as far as outages, was toysrus.com during oct-dec 1999. Although this paypal one, when it's all done, may be able to take the gold.

[kodaks]

So much for the "new paypal homepage", it won;t do much good if they continue having 100% downtime (and I thought my site was bad :))