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mike503 · 03-04-2004, 04:57 PM

i use paypal for *everything* online. vhost customers pay me for hosting, i do freelance coding and rely on it for that, i accept website donations to my NON-ADULT website. however, i had the paypal donate button on one of my sites which someone posted a topless/nude chick (it was a non-adult site) and they caught it and suspended me. yeah, it sucks. so i thought all i have to do is email in, get the offending url(s) and fix it - which i did. but i'm provided no appeal and they're not answering emails like a human. so i'm fucked. they won't reopen it, and all it was was a single URL with one or maybe two pics on it that were adult. the account has been in fine standing for 3 years now, thousands of dollars in and out for all sorts of things, i have had no fraud and only a couple refunds. it's pathetic. none of the tenure and such is being considered, and obviously nobody has looked at my site since then because i do not have the paypal button anymore.

anyway, i browsed around GFY for paypal replacement threads and of course there's a mixed review of everything. so maybe i'll just say what i need an account for, and someone can tell me based on personal experience whether MB, allresell, yahoo paydirect, epassporte, or other programs will work. stormpay seems to be too unprofessional and it's outside of the US and seems a little bit too shady for me. this isn't just to process credit cards, either.

i'm going to list out the features i'm looking for that paypal provided so nicely... that don't seem to be all together in any other program that i know of yet (or that i've read)

- ability to instantly fund my account with credit card/bank money on demand.
- ability for any random user who wants to send me $50 or $5 donation to my website to signup quick and use his/her credit card or bank account to send it.
- i'd like to be able to withdraw using direct deposit OR snail mail check. having the option is nice.
- it would be nice to support international folks, but it is a slightly lower priority.

eventually if i did do some sort of membership-based site with recurring payments (which i had planned to do in the future, but again, non-adult right now) i'd want it to be easy for any college kid or 65 year old man to signup and start sending cash.

basically think paypal.

does epassporte make this easy? i read they don't do recurring payments. i'm sure that's in huge demand so it will be done soon...

basically i want it to be easy for people just to click a button and signup (if they're a first timer, or hell, signup could be optional if they just send me one time payment) to send cash, funded with a credit card of theirs or tied into their bank account.

everything seems to change every couple weeks and the last thread was well over a week ago with any sort of paypal talk using the search terms i searched on.

thanks.

(by the way, paypalsucks.com IS the real deal, the runaround shit they talk about is happening to me right now)

remember - i'm not just trying to look for paysite processing. i'm looking for general send/receive money functionality, i have people that are college kids who send me money all the way to adult website owners paying me for freelance work. basically all audiences.

03-04-2004, 04:57 PM
mike503 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2002 Location: oregon. Posts: 2,243	so paypal fucked me. i use paypal for everything online. vhost customers pay me for hosting, i do freelance coding and rely on it for that, i accept website donations to my NON-ADULT website. however, i had the paypal donate button on one of my sites which someone posted a topless/nude chick (it was a non-adult site) and they caught it and suspended me. yeah, it sucks. so i thought all i have to do is email in, get the offending url(s) and fix it - which i did. but i'm provided no appeal and they're not answering emails like a human. so i'm fucked. they won't reopen it, and all it was was a single URL with one or maybe two pics on it that were adult. the account has been in fine standing for 3 years now, thousands of dollars in and out for all sorts of things, i have had no fraud and only a couple refunds. it's pathetic. none of the tenure and such is being considered, and obviously nobody has looked at my site since then because i do not have the paypal button anymore. anyway, i browsed around GFY for paypal replacement threads and of course there's a mixed review of everything. so maybe i'll just say what i need an account for, and someone can tell me based on personal experience whether MB, allresell, yahoo paydirect, epassporte, or other programs will work. stormpay seems to be too unprofessional and it's outside of the US and seems a little bit too shady for me. this isn't just to process credit cards, either. i'm going to list out the features i'm looking for that paypal provided so nicely... that don't seem to be all together in any other program that i know of yet (or that i've read) - ability to instantly fund my account with credit card/bank money on demand. - ability for any random user who wants to send me $50 or $5 donation to my website to signup quick and use his/her credit card or bank account to send it. - i'd like to be able to withdraw using direct deposit OR snail mail check. having the option is nice. - it would be nice to support international folks, but it is a slightly lower priority. eventually if i did do some sort of membership-based site with recurring payments (which i had planned to do in the future, but again, non-adult right now) i'd want it to be easy for any college kid or 65 year old man to signup and start sending cash. basically think paypal. does epassporte make this easy? i read they don't do recurring payments. i'm sure that's in huge demand so it will be done soon... basically i want it to be easy for people just to click a button and signup (if they're a first timer, or hell, signup could be optional if they just send me one time payment) to send cash, funded with a credit card of theirs or tied into their bank account. everything seems to change every couple weeks and the last thread was well over a week ago with any sort of paypal talk using the search terms i searched on. thanks. (by the way, paypalsucks.com IS the real deal, the runaround shit they talk about is happening to me right now) remember - i'm not just trying to look for paysite processing. i'm looking for general send/receive money functionality, i have people that are college kids who send me money all the way to adult website owners paying me for freelance work. basically all audiences. __________________ php/mysql guru. hosting, coding, all that jazz.