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Let's be honest, there is a small repulsion from the btc community towards btc paypal because of the refunds,... But, let's be honest a second time, Paypal is just an easy way to pay with online. But I'm having trouble finding some decent markets/sites/services that still accepts paypal.

So yea, my question: where do you guys still use paypal nowadays?

Yeah it is way easier to pay online with Paypal. You really can't pay with Bitcoins at most of the online web shops. But with Paypal you can pay almost at most of the online web shops.

Honestly I rarely use PayPal as a payment, but usually I use it on eBay cuz the seller there just accept PayPal as the payment.

i use paypal only when is the only available and best option, see ebay, or to purchase something in some unknown website, usually connected with my debit card

I do still use Paypal for payment once a while when I shop on eBay... but there are many more online stores other than Paypal...

Paypal is for lazy people (like me, sometimes) without need to think too much- as the service is being paid by the fees and unfavourable exchange rates...

Paypal helps me in paying my monthly subscriptions online like spotify and for buying my needs that couldnt be bought in my country.

Some people have stopped accepting PayPal because it takes 6 months to confirm a transaction - welcome to New Money - PayPal's SnailCoin. :)

i use it on ebay and when i shop clothing on asos.com. Like a buyer i prefer to pay whit payapl, because if i'll have a problem hit my order i have more warrancy

I don't know what type of sites/services you're referring to but I don't think PayPal adoption by merchants is slowing down at all. Bitcoin is great as an alternative/experimental payment method but I don't think any mainstream site will even consider accepting only Bitcoins. There are certainly plenty of other payment processors besides PayPal but none of those have market share anywhere close to that of PayPal.

I only use it to pay hostgator for hosting (I'm in Europe, and if i use a debit card, I get charged a handling fee because hostgator is a "foreign" site. Paypal solves this problem because no handling fee (and obviously if they accepted bitcoin, that would solve it too).

The last time I don't use at all

I don't use paypal.Because there's no reason to.
I never had and never will be a customer of them!The way they handle and deal with your personal information should be reason enough for everyone to avoid this payment service.

My answer is, "nowhere". Ever since they blocked my account and lock all the funds I had in it, due to me relocating to a country that it's against their rules (the day I logged in from another country - Iran to be exact, the next day my account was useless already with all the funds inside it), I never looked back again. I went back in forth with them through email and they never refunded it to me even though I provided all the proofs that I literally am a dual citizen. Paypal used to be good when it came out back in the day, but I can't really see it in the future in most markets, but on the other hand BTCitcoin will surely be much more widely used.

my honest answer is every where..  lolz..
because paypal is accepted in all web, all websites, all marketplaces and shopping sites, and also all earning sources, freelancing sites and other services paying with paypals. some of them recently started using bitcoin but majority of them still working with paypal.

yest it is true that paypal is being used in most of web markets and other sources.
but I personally don't like using paypal. I love to pay with bitcoin every time. I hardly find bitcoin friendly sites to buy and sell things and earn bitcoins.

not anymore, i usually purchased domain, vps with it, when hosting company accepted bitcoin as payment options, i never used it anymore, but my account still active just received payment from some cpa company, but for transaction or purchasing something i prefer using bitcoin

Time passed his)))) :)

repulsion is a bit too harsh to say about bitcoin's lack of refund. the lack of refund is actually a good feature in bitcoin. and for purchases it is the best option for the merchants because they will feel secure and the customer also will feel safe as long as the merchant is reputable.

for example i don't think twice when paying with bitcoin for hosting!

and as for paypal i will never use them again unless i don't have any other option (no other payment method or no other similar service)

There is no need not to use PayPal if you are dealing with online store or reputable merchant with long history of completed successfully deals.
As far as I know PayPal did not collect any fee from you if you buy stuff online. Instead seller is taxed with the fee.
But you have to be cautious of using PayPal to deal with random people, in that case using PP could be problematic and I wouldn't recommend using PP for it.

i believe paypal still have many user and lover,i dont know what their reason to do that and keep use paypal,maybe they still dont know abut bitcoin,or they just too deep loving paypal and can't leave it. honestly i have paypal account,still active,but i never make it verified,and never use it for transaction.

I don't have any problem using Paypal, actually I prefer paying with Paypal and avoid any other payment method, even one time CC cards, it's much harder or impossible to get your money back when there's a problem if you use any method other than Paypal.

And I don't see a lack of places accepting Paypal, it's probably the most used payment processor worldwide except China.

I use PayPal

You mean this, right?

I use paypal to buy on Ebay. I would use something else if I could, but Ebay and Paypal do not have much competition.

I already stop using paypal when i using bitcoins. Because the fee is so damn ridiculous on paypal, so i change my payemnt into bitcoin. and i'm good with the fee on bitcoin.

I think it is a mistake to make a comparison between Paypal and Bitcoin. We are doin that because Bitcoin can be used as a payment method just like paypal. However, there is an important thing to remember, Bitcoin is a lot more than just a payment method. Paypal might be offering users more than Bitcoin does, that doesn`t make Paypal better. One can use Bitcoin as an investment, trading, perhaps even saving but it is not possible to do that with paypal. Paypal is simply a safe payment method. Usually very expensive one. We should be able to see the difference.

Only once in the last few years have I not been able to pay with PayPal online. The place that doesn't accept it accepts card so no problem there.

Yeah, paypal has firmed their roots on a vast area on online transactions besides there are a number of good payment systems online available, but now a time will come when some bitcoin accepting markets become more famous then bitcoin will be introduced to everyone, and then is a chance that every site adopt bitcoin system.

Accepting paypal as a merchant can be a risky business, depending what you are selling of course and to where you are sending.  There is just so many hacked accounts out there, you only have to spend about 2 minutes on deep web to find hundreds of hacked accounts for sale.  From a buyers perspective it is pretty bullet proof.

dont know  :(
because as long as life, I have never used paypal. i've never use paypal because i think the security sistem is easy to bypass or anything which is linked with cyber crime.  :(

I would much prefer to do all my dealings with bitcoin rather than paypal. Especially for selling items, Some people just abuse paypals sytem for getting cash back.

I think eBay and PayPal go together like peanut butter & jelly.... and that is about the only place where PayPal is still applicable. We are not in the business here {on this forum} to promote PayPal,

so let's stick to the reason this forum was created and leave other older and outdated payment methods to do their own promotions. Those centralized services with their rules and

regulations and banning or disabling of accounts for stupid reasons, should have been replaced a long time ago. Let's hope Bitcoin & OpenBazaar will have that same success in future. 

I prefer to pay with my PayPal account for online stuff than to reveal my debit card details to the websites as with PayPal I am just giving the merchants an email account and my data is safe. Fortunately my country is in a good standing with PayPal so I haven't had any problems since I opened my first account with them more than 10 years ago. Even though I am doing a great share of my online shopping with Bitcoin PayPal is more convenient than debit cards where Bitcoin isn't accepted.

you can use PayPal on local #Bitcoin I do it all the time no problem go to trusted vendor with good feedback

Same here, I also did not use it from a few months because of the convenient transaction system of bitcoin. But still I have some amount of dollars in my paypal account so sooner I will use them for buying some domain from godaddy.

I've been using Paypal for years and years and never have I had a transaction take longer than 1-2 minutes to show up ready to be spent in my account. Way faster than BTC will ever be.

Paypal is one of the great to pay or to buy online shopping because most of stores online are accepting paypal as payment unlike bitcoin.
But bitcoin will gradually more stores are accepting someday ebay and amazon will accept bitcoin as payment..

I still use paypal to buy stuff on steam

Do you know that Steam introduced paying with bitcoins recently?

People can still purchase apps and digital content on Google Play using Paypal payment method from their Google account.

But only depends on the supported country and my country is not listed there lol.

Yes, I was just overreading the same mistake over and over again. thank you, will edit in a sec.

That's true. I never heard or read about PayPal chargebacks earlier and I've been using PayPal for about 6-7 years without any issue. I came to this forum and read so many people claiming to be chargedback and I feel this is common with those trading in bitcoins or on ebay as mostly scammers use this to their advantage. PayPal is the easiest way for many users to sell or buy stuff online but due to people with a low life, they have totally ruined it.


Edit: I use PayPal to sell my gift cards on this forum itself and only accept it from trustworthy users. Else, I can suggest you to use cardpool or other gift card websites to buy gift cards and there are several other websites that accept PayPal as a main payment method. Even Ebay uses it. I haven't ever found it difficult to pay with PayPal and recently a shopping website also introduced it as a payment option.

Have you checked this: https://shopping.paypal.com/stores

Ya it is true that most of the charge backs are done on deal with bitcoin trading as paypal dont support bitcoins but one more reason is the fees that paypal charges is too high comparing to bitcoin.

I use paypal for ebay since they offer guarantees with refunds and offer some kind of discounts sometimes with using them by promotions sent by an email notification. Plus they own ebay so it is seamless payment processing using them.

nothing nowadays, as I am busy in bitcoin and also here in bitcoin it is convenient for me to use my money with full freedom.

people said eBay still accepts paypal.
that's easy way, it is, but I don't use it because of, you know, the refunds, and I don't need stuff to buy with paypal  ;D

That hasn't yet happened has it? I read about that a few weeks ago, as far as I know it's only a rumor (some guy found provision for Bitcoin in the code or something) although it probably will happen at some point. Just now launched the Steam client and I can't find Bitcoin anywhere. Found nothing with Google either.

I use Paypal with online stores. And ebay of course.
I don't think that I have ever seen an online store in my country where you can buy real goods by paying with bitcoins.
Amazon works with visa card, and most of the digital goods go by bitcoins.

With Paypal you can purchase things at almost every online store and websites world wide. This is something that Bitcoin not has, I hope that this is going to change in the near future.

Ebay has many users who make fake chargebacks after they receive the product and hence I've stopped using it. I was an active seller there and after 2 chargebacks, I just gave up on it.

OP, if you are a buyer then ebay is a good prace to buy stuff online but it's not good for sellers.

Paypal is ok. I don't have fail purchases on my experience for a long time that i'm using it. Nowdays is one of the best online wallets.

How? What can Paypal offer to pay an extra fee while paying with bitcoins? They can make a transaction refundable, like Paypal, but that makes bitcoin unreliable. I see no reason to use Paypal as company in the middle of a transaction.

While it's true that it's pretty easy making transactions  with paypal, it's not much harder with bitcoin either, you just have to have bitcoin debit card. I know it's
not exactly what we want, but it's the best we have so far if you are stuck with sellers that won't accept bitcoin directly.

Don't know why you can't find store acccepting paypal, the only change bitcoin has made in some stores is like bitcoin added as payment method next to paypal. And people who can't use paypal or who want lower or no fee are choosing bitcoin as payment method. But volume wise i think still most of the store transactions are from paypal.

There are a lot of websites that do not accept bitcoin so I'm 'forced' to use paypal, even though there is an option to pay with the debit card i still prefer paypal because i feel safer.

i believe outhere still many marketplace accept paypal as main payment,and so far i admit that paypal easier to use as payment,but its dont mean i used paypal for payment,i never open my paypal again since i'm active in bitcoin.

and because of this reason paypal is going to die very sooner, bitcoin is a worldwide adoptable payment system, so a business/company for its success and access of all over the world will adopt bitcoin.

There are many issues beyond the refunds with PainPal.  It is the easiest online because it is really the only option because of the amount of people using it and accepting it. 

I think I've used Paypal 7 or 8 times last year, and I will do that again this year. I sure would prefer to use BTC, but there are still many services which don't accept it. Some things are changing really slowly. I wish I could read about a retailer saying he's making more sales with BTC than Paypal.

Going to be honest:  There is no reason for me to buy anything with bitcoin.  I would have to exchange fiat for bitcoin, spend it, and then the merchant is just going to convert it back to fiat.  It's completely unnecessary.  I buy bitcoin to hold, as a store of value and as a speculative instrument. 

I definitely use PayPal more often to buy things and I've found pen shops online who take it (I collect pens). 

And you don't have to use escrow.

Care to explain this then?
https://www.google.com/+paypal

(found with approx 30 secs research).

Same is the case with my country and hence I asked a friend to buy an app for me with his credits.

@OP: PayPal is the most used payment option these days and it has its own store from where we can purchase any stuff. Bestbuy also has introduced it as a payment option. Walmart too accepts PP payments.

I have never used paypal, don't intend to do it in future too and frankly don't understand how companies are accepting it with its major flaws such as cashback, which one can't be protected against if done using stolen credit cards.

The only reason I'd use it if there were no other payment options available and if I am selling something, would never want to be at the receiving end of it.

BTW, this question belongs in service discussion, if not off-topic. (Not reporting it though because no one cares.)

you mean ChargeBack, cashback is something else. and i don't think companies especially the big ones have any trouble with it otherwise they would have removed the method from their payment page.

the trouble is for the regular sellers who will be screwed if they get a chargeback and can never win the argument.

I think there are still a lot out there. But most are at credit cards. I guess you are looking always at Amazon and they are not affiliated by Paypal. Ebay is and there are lots of items there that are for sale.

You can go here (https://shopping.paypal.com/stores)

So many people buy stuff with Paypal these days. Paypal is just easy to work with and easy to get. With Paypal you can pay at almost every online webshops that exists today. Even if it is in a another country you can still pay with Paypal.

ebay most sellers accept PayPal as a payment option. I do not know why Amazon does not use a payment system from paypal?
anyone knows the reason of amazon?

I mostly use it to pay for things like Spotify, games on Steam, Pokerstars etc. If any of these businesses accepted Bitcoin, I would be using that instead.

I am belongs to an asian country. where paypal doesn't available. most of people who want o use paypal they use US proxies to sign up. but I didn't. I never used paypal. I always use bitcoin for payment, and for receive money.

I am in SEO,domaining and website selling business and I usually get all my payments with PayPal because most of the people still prefer it.Also all big ad networks support PayPal and pay with it

Yes Paypal is just so handy unlike Bitcoin you can pay everywhere with Paypal. With bitcoin you cannot I hope that this will change in the future. 

I think there are many sites that accept paypal as a payment option. I still often see the paypal logo on top of their site. it proves they still accept paypal. I often see it on various sites, including many sellers on ebay. still using paypal for the system
sellers on ebay

PayPal is one of the oldest method of payments online, while honestly bitcoin is just at it's initial stage, even after 8 years of it's release. You can't just compare PayPal right now with bitcoin, PayPal of course has much more online area covered right now.

I used to use paypal only on Ebay, but now i don't shop anymore on Ebay so , bye bye Paypal  ;D

Buying stuff with Paypal is pretty normal these days. Almost every online web shops supports Paypal. And it is easy to set up Paypal. This is why Paypal is so popular.

I am using PayPal a lot more for online purchases but if I can find a nice discount on goods sold for Bitcoins I would pretty much jump on the deal in a heartbeat. Sadly most of the big retailers don't offer anything for Bitcoin during Black Friday and Xmas season in my country.

I am really surprised that you have trouble finding merchants accepting paypal. almost all the merchants I have came across use paypal, on the opposite it's hard for me to find someone who doesn't accept paypal. And to be honest not many people know about the paypal chargeback and all the everyday people never bother to chargeback, its just there scammers of this forum.

Sure a lot of paypal threads active at the moment,almost like a campaign for it. ;D
I kid but hopefully we see hardly any paypal threads in the future,it would mean more people are using bitcoin in easier ways.

I still use paypal, but it's a constant headache!

I am using paypal cause it's just better than bitcoin in online shopping case. Bitcoin need to grow first and become more popular to compete paypal now.

Ebay strongly supports the system of paypal. they use the checkout process using paypal. althought you pay using a credit card. it will be processed with paypal
so if you want to shop on ebay you have to use paypal

I used it recently to buy Bitcoin on wesellcrypto and I sold some btc to a user here who paid with PayPal.   Selling on ebay is easy with it but the fees are kinda crazy.

But what if the merchant don’t have access to paypal?

In case if you want to buy a product from a specific merchant which is unable to get from any other merchant and you have paypal and want to pay with paypal while the merchant do not have paypal because of their country is not allowed for paypal.

Then you both have to choose a currency and a payment system to which you both have access, so bitcoin is a best solution.

Yeah with Paypal online shopping is way better and easier. Paypal is worldwide better know and more popular then Bitcoin. Bitcoin needs to grow a bit more if they want to compete against Paypal. 

amazon.com,ebay and purse.io maybe the most popular site that used by people that have many paypal balance,but for its not good for making transaction,i just use and hold bitcoin for better and safer transaction.

Almost nothing nowadays, as I am busy in bitcoin and also here in bitcoin it is convenient for me to use my money with full freedom...

agreed. I am more compatible with bitcoin than paypal. I used paypal before when I wasn't aware of bitcoin. that time I though paypal is best but now my opinion changed.
but truth is truth, paypal still being used in majority..

I never used it. The big fees are just disgusting. Also, why would I use PayPal when I have this fantastic invention which is Bitcoin ? Seriously ?

Sometimes you are just forced to use paypal.
If you cant use btc I would rather use paypal then a debit card directly to a merchant.

If possible I skip Ebay and go to Alibaba or Aliexpress now. It is cheaper and promotes competition. Ebay as a market leader has a terrible website, the search for example differs per country you are from. For example, if I use ebay.com I get different results searching in China than when I use ebay.de.

although I bitcoin users but I agree with you bitcoin should be more developed. may be somewhat stable so the risk for merchant will be reduced. so they want to use the method of payment for bitcoin
PayPal has a system that is great for shopping. possibly that's why many people choose paypal than bitcoin

Yes, agree with your opinion, but they have limited their products to only those countries to where paypal is limited, and whenever they felt bitcoin as reliable and wanted to spread their products to the whole world they will prefer bitcoin.

if i am forced to pay for certain things only with paypal, then i simply skip that site. i don't have paypal and i will never create another paypal account. so far i have never seen a site that only uses paypal as payment option.

this is not fair, if this is the case, there is no site that only accept bitcoin as payment. paypal is world known, most of the people use paypal for online shopping. may be if they know about bitcoin they will sure jump to bitcoin.

I only use PayPal when I'm buying. Never when I'm selling unless I really need paypal. (To be honest, I never do :))

PayPal is dead to me.

I do the opposite, if it doesn't have Paypal I skip the site, it's a pain in the ass, if possible, to get your money back when scammed if you use anything other than Paypal.

thank goodness I did not want bitcoin users switching to PayPal. I was more than happy when users paypal stopped and switched to bitcoin. because bicoin better than paypal. unfortunately many paypal users that dont know about bitcoin
I also tolerate when you need it urgent paypal. Sometimes I also use paypal when the site does not accept bitcoin

Yes basically this is the main paypal problem, a long way confirmed transaction different with bitcoin with only need a couple minutes.

Bitcoin problem are on how many online store already accepting bitcoin? How famous the online store which accept bitcoin? . Paypal already have ebay and bitcoin? This is a big task.

If you like to shop online at online web shops you must have a Paypal. Paying with Paypal online is just the easiest way to do it. And every online store excepts Paypal.

I use paypal anyway cause I dont want to sell my bitcoin right now.

But paypal and ebay are a bunch of thieves with their fee's and a bunch of
a-holes with their rules.

But for now Im stuck using them...

I use paypal to buy from local online shops. They are all legit though. The website's name is Lazada. They accept paypal and other modes of payment but since their shop sells almost everything you'll ever need (clothing, gadget, grocery), I use my paypal to buy on their website. They also accept payments from unverified paypal and I find that very efficient since I haven't been able to verify my paypal account just yet.

Yes, I do still use paypal for several deals that I think that could potentially bring harm to myself, I usually use paypal when making a transaction with a person that I know of yet, because paypal has features that are quite helpful to me for refund that I send and I can take when in the transaction, the person receiving the funds I commit fraud.

Ohh. Did I forgot to mention that their website's admin is very wise? ::)
Sorry about that. People might think that stolen Paypal accounts and bank accounts can be used to buy stuffs on their website. But they are wrong. I do have some friends that are trying to do some 'black hat' stuffs on that website but they just can't do it. Unlike with some online shop in the US, they can use stolen paypal accounts and bank accounts. I do not have the knowledge to explain how they block those malicious/suspicious accounts from buying to their website though.

We should switch to Bitcoins for buying stuff online.

I have a paypal account but i don't use it a lot, the fees are extremely high
I only use it when i withdraw my money on Paid To Click site,
Now it's all about bitcoin, it's easy ,it's simple

I have Paypal account, but I never use it to buy something.
Paypal needs to be verified to do transaction, while Bitcoin don't.
That's why I'm more convenient use Bitcoin.

Some online shops accept unverified Paypal though.

I would also agree to this bitcoin is much convenient to use to buy stuff online than paypal and bitcoin is much cheaper for merchant.

I think if you skip the site you will have trouble finding the correct site accept bitcoin or credit card only. and maybe you will not get a specific item or you want.
because all of the processes by paypal. most common sites using paypal for their payment method.

In revenue bitcoin has already bypassed paypal but when it comes to acceptance bitcoin is fair behind.
Therefore it is good to have a paypal account because most of the shops accept it.

I was also stuck to paypal but after joining bitcoin I said good bye to paypal and their sucking rules and fees, Now I am using bitcoin and I am not losing a large amount of my money in paying fees for the transactions etc.

Paypal gone too greedy with the cuts and rates.

I just use my creditcard instead of paypal, or better: bitcoin.

Of course those are for the trusted sellers. If i am buying something from a seller i don't know before, i use paypal then. But this doesn't happen much.

but i think it would be way better if the shops accepted bitcoin because in my opinion we need to make the shops accept it right now in order to attract a lot of people to bitcoin

i hope this will surely be possible in the future and i hope that we will not need to use paypal for online shopping any more because i think its way better payment method

I send a 5dollar payment to a friend of mine (but with goods, as it was a real trade) , and he got 4.5... 10% fee, really??

I have used Paypal in the past but I was not satisfied with it, So I started to purchase with credit card but in future I will only use bitcoin for making online payments.

Actually I haven't use paypal on anything except games. Everytime I have something earned penny, I always spend them to my games which I used to play a few years already.

I agree with your statement, with unverified paypal account there is a chance of acts like that, but they want their to be accessable to all over the world and for that they would have to accept unverified paypal, or bitcoin.

True, it sucks to pay ~$4 for a ~$100 sold item. But it's the most popular way to pay and customers demand it. So yeah, we're stuck at it for now. Bitcoin right now is too technical for the general population I believe.

Yes this have also happened to me in past several times. They are getting richer and richer daily with 10%+ fees and also minimum fee system they have.

before bitcoin is famous i purchase things online using paypal, but for now i only used paypal in e-bay and amazon, eventhough in amazon we actually used paypal to purchase the gift card first and then used it, but for me paypal its not too convenient anymore

yeah all Internet users as possible who follow online business or want to shop online. The first selection is certainly paypal as a payment method.
every site that I saw certainly accept paypal as payment. was reasonable because they have a system of protection and very nice. either for the buyer or the seller

Yeah paypal have got a lot greedier, I ended up closing my ebay shop after they raised all the fees (on both ebay and paypal).

For now I'm looking forward to services like Open Bazaar and Bitsquare getting more recognition.

I agree. Paypal is mostly used for websites that still isn't accepting bitcoin as payment. Amazon, ebay, etc still isn't accepting one. So Paypal is still used for that purpose.

If Bitcoin got used universally for every websites in the world and even real life, then paypal will be bankrupt really fast since bitcoin is much better than paypal (especially the fees)

I'm sure in just a few more months/years, almost every updated site would adopt bitcoins as a form of payment.
The only problem with bitcoins is that the value of each coin changes almost every few minutes. Well, it'll only be a problem if the price of an item is fixed on USD or EUR.

I prefer to pay with my Pay Pal account for online stuff than to reveal my debit card details to the websites as with PayPal I am just giving the merchants an email account and my data is safe. Fortunately my country is in a good standing with PayPal so I haven't had any problems since I opened my first account with them more than 10 years ago. Even though I am doing a great share of my online shopping with Bitcoin PayPal is more convenient than debit cards where Bitcoin isn't accepted.

i mainly use paypal on gift card websites like gyft.com . then i can use those gift cards in many stores online. this is like a 2 step process of like using paypal at all these merchants. :o

These processing merchants is good also i saw it on other online stores who accepts and process it by paypal . This is the steps to improve also our modes of payments added improving our technology .this is a good start sooner bitcoins will also accepted.

I'm using PayPal for donations only. For buying gift cards I use BTC, on egiftcards24.com for example.

May I ask a counter question? where do you find PayPal not being accepted? In fact I have to search where can I spend my bitcoin because PayPal is so widespread

I partly disagree. The repulsion is not because of the refunds alone. It's also because of paypal's tendency to freeze funds arbitrarily out of constructed AML-concerns. Paypal is an obedient slave to government and spies on its costumers in the worst possible way.

Also the fees are quite high, so transacting via wire transfer or physical cash is often a cheaper alternative.

I really hope that Bitcoin will put an end to the paypal mania. Yes, I'm a passionate paypal hater... :D

ya.ya.yo!

I only use Paypal when occasionally buying something from ebay , since I live in a developed EU country I use it often as it saves me time. Still Paypal fees are enormous when compared with bitcoin and I don't like Paypal very much, but is because of its widespread I am using it when buying something online. Unfortunately very few websites like ebay accept bitcoin as a payment method but I am hoping in the future bitcoin becomes more widespread than Paypal.

I prefer PayPal for international transactions where there is no other option available for transfer in certain stores which has got tie-up with PayPal as its payment gateway.

Paypal, eBay are ecosystem of their own. Not possible to dislodge them.

The wildcard here is Amazon with its own payment system that never really got popular.

If Bitcoin community could sway Amazon to accept Bitcoins, then that will be a game changer.

Don't make up fake situation bro there are lots of merchant still accepting paypal out there you can spend paypal in virtually everywhere expect to sell/ buy illegal stuffs but paypal fee with lots of account restriction really sucks.

Its ridiculous how much they charge in fees

I sold a golf club on ebay for a couple hundred and by the
time I paid shipping - ebay fees and paypal I cleared only about
75%......

Ebay is the only way I shop with paypal, but there is also a gaming site that I use that pays me in US dollars via paypal.  I also fund that account via paypal.  That is a way to transfer US dollars pretty easily.

ebay still accepts paypal. Paypal is hard to use now a days that is so hard and strict on their policy who sends you money and even you sends to someone, they have so many questions. Why not just let them in and let them out simple as that like coinbase and other online wallet its jusk like to many drama when you use paypal argh....  >:(

Paypal is just easy to pay with and so many stores accept them which makes it more usefull. Bitcoin still has just a couple of stores that let you pay with Bitcoins but there are coming more and more.

yes we all know and feel that when use paypal,its why paypal not good for us anymore,beside paypal really sensitive to hacked,also paypal have high fee,bitcoin better than paypal in that case,but we can't deny that there was many marketplace accept paypal.

We cannot ignore the fact that Paypal is more popular and still in demand, only reason is bitcoin is not known by majority of people yet and not accepted everywhere.

I thought you did not need to be difficult to use paypal for payment method. because I see almost every site accept paypal as a payment option. very rarely I see "accepted bitcoin"
I really want to use bitcoin like paypal. accepted throughout the premises and stores

We all want to use bitcoin like paypal, but the current scenario is not allowing us to do so, and I think we need to wait for some more time so that bitcoin gets accepted everywhere.

Well, I don't really like to use bitcoin exactly like paypal but I do want to use bitcoin as something BETTER than paypal. The good thing about paypal is that nearly every site has adopted the use of paypal and we do hope that nearly the same or more businesses, be it online or real world, would adopt bitcoins.

I only use gaypal on ebay because it's almost mandatory there.

I've been waiting for years for an alternative to ebay and gaypal.

I hope I don't have to wait much longer.

I hate paypal but sometimes I need to use it for some website and customers who don't have bitcoin.

I don't know why people still using paypal on most of there transactions. Paypal has high fees and can froze your account anytime they like. And withdrawal to banks takes 4-7 days. Where as I can withdraw bitcoin to bank isntantly without fee.

Yes, paypal is good, and also paypal is accepted by even almost online shops right now, bitcoin losing to paypal in this case.

Paypal has a bad rap for online person to person deals because of the protection schemes in place. It's far to easy to say your account was hacked and reverse a transaction.

You were lucky!

How much did you pay for seller protection and does seller protection waived the buyers right for refunds?

I am ok with using paypal, for me it's much better than bitcoin.

After PayPal stole $10 from my account and not let me recover it, I haven't used PayPal in about 5 years.

I'm fine with using paypal online, but i'd totally rather use bitcoin. Paypal has the annoyance of all their hidden forex fees and stuff.

Paypal is even better than bitcoin in this case at my opinion. But anyway bitcoin <3

only buy some domains and when online shop has discount for a stuff i use my paypal to buy something on there, i think that is first time i use my paypal to buy stuff

I only send paypal; I don't receive it. I'm a trusted member on other places, so people are fine with going first. But I can't say the same about others.

Of course lots of sites still use paypal, freelancers know that for sure.

I do not think, that PayPal is popular. Yes, there are a lot of sites, which use PayPal as a payment option, but I do not think, there are people, which use it. Bitcoin is more popular.  ;)

Paypal still better option to people that don't have credit card,I using to pay hosting and received payment for my work,thanks paypal.

Paypal is okay for online shoppin, much better than bitcoin in this case at my opinion.