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Best alternative to Paypal for receiving money for forum purchases

Leros

Leros

Lifer
I haven't used my Paypal account in 5+ years. It looks like somebody from China hacked my account in 2010. That got my account flagged and the person in China started a limitation review. To finish the limitation review and get my account back, I have to provide information about a bank account I no longer have. I haven't had too much luck getting Paypal to help me so far.

So... what's the best alternative? I looked at Dwolla, but that requires the sender to have a Dwolla account. I looked at Amazon's web payment solution but it said that the feature was disabled for my account (still waiting to hear back from Amazon customer service about that).

I created a second paypal account for sending money by adding a "+1"to my email (myemail+1@site.com), but some people don't seem comfortable sending money to that address.
 
lxskllr said:
bitcoin?
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Maybe on ATOT. Not going to work on some of the other forums I post on. I need soemthing as simple as Paypal where the person can just put their credit card info in without creating an account. I think Google Checkout did that, but it seems like they killed that and I don't think Google wallet lets me request money. I'd love to use a Google solution if one exists.
 
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Paypal is evil, unfortunately it is so popular it's almost necessary. The only other I use is amazon but it isn't very popular, next is good old usps money orders.
 
Gillbot said:
Paypal is evil, unfortunately it is so popular it's almost necessary. The only other I use is amazon but it isn't very popular, next is good old usps money orders.
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Does Amazon let you spend the money you receive on Amazon? The thing I always hated about Paypal was being forced to link it to my bank account (I got scammed by a buyer, lost the dispute, and Paypal deducted money directly from my bank account).
 
Gillbot said:
I think so, if not you can withdraw it in the form of amazon gift cards.
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Sounds good. Hopefully I can get my Amazon account sorted out. Everything on my Amazon account seems to work (shopping, prime video, AWS), but not web payments.
 
Amazon got back to me pretty fast. Amazon Payments was disabled for my account because I had once signed up to be a Mechanical Turk worker. Apparently signing up for that gets you a very limited Amazon Payments account. They said I can close that Amazon Payments account and create a new one with the ability to receive payments.
 
Leros said:
I created a second paypal account for sending money by adding a "+1"to my email (myemail+1@site.com), but some people don't seem comfortable sending money to that address.
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Good Lord. Do you mean to tell us that the only thing keeping you from creating a new PayPal account that you could actually use is the need for another working email address?

Get another email address. Attach it to that account or else create a third account.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Good Lord. Do you mean to tell us that the only thing keeping you from creating a new PayPal account that you could actually use is the need for another working email address?

Get another email address. Attach it to that account or else create a third account.
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People on the forum I'm trying to collect money for right now are hesitant to pay if the email of the forum account doesn't match the Paypal account.
 
Leros said:
I created a second paypal account for sending money by adding a "+1"to my email (myemail+1@site.com), but some people don't seem comfortable sending money to that address.
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If site.com is gmail.com, you can use, for instance, my.email@site.com and it should work fine too. Plus it looks better. (But I don't know if Paypal would consider it the same email.)
 
i think most banks have a "pay a person" feature. chase calls it quickpay. boa has something similar.

(both parties do not need to use the same bank for these services)
 
The problem with using Amazon Payments is they do not cover anything paid for outside of Amazon.com or using their API. You can send and receive money from people, but you get absolutely zero protection like you do with PayPal.

I can't comment on the other services, but I imagine they are similar.

Some forum users here only accept Amazon Payments, and that just means I won't be doing business with them.
 
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