Buying stuff with paypal nowadays

[keyscore44]

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??

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.

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.

[jethrorn99]

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

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)

[wuvdoll]

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

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.

[NumNim1978]

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.

[Hugroll]

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.

[Viyamore]

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.

Do  you get discount buying the gift cards?

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.

[exadex.org]

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

[Wapinter]

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?

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

[yayayo]

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.

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...

ya.ya.yo!

[BitcoinSupremo]

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.

[romero121]

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.

[biggbox]

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.

[amacar2]

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?

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.

[Rubberduckie]

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%......

[outatime1]

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.

[quintiilieo]

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.... 

[FabioDelcatto]

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?

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.

[bittrojan]

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.... 

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.

[fkvidar]

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.... 

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.

[diodio5]

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