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capnq said:
Some people who haven't had any problems themselves object to Paypal's business practices.
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Well, that's pretty vague. I don't want to set myself up as some sort of Paypal defender, but pick a business and you can find people that will object to it's business practices. In fact you can find a significant portion of the population that objects to business in general.
All I can say is Paypal offers a service. A pretty valuable and conveinent service for an operation like PBW. If we didn't have Paypal we'd be dependant on mail donations which would entail all sorts of headaches and hassles with cashing checks, making deposits, worrying about envelopes lost in the mail, etc. And we wouldn't even be able to consider taking credit card donations because of the costs and hassles to get that sort of thing setup. And on top of that the CC compaines take a percentage just like Paypal.
It would be different if this were a real money making operation, but it's not and isn't intended to be. Not that I object to making money. I just don't see PBW as having real pontential for positive cash flow. The user base is loyal, but too small. We'd have to branch out into other games to really make a go of that and I just don't have the skills for the programming needed for something like that. At least not yet. Who knows what the future may hold.
Is Paypal perfect? No way. But considering they handle BILLIONS of dollars in transactions every month they must be doing a pretty decent job or they'd be out of business or facing droves of competitors by now.