PayPal Criticism and Alternatives

This cluster centers on users sharing negative experiences with PayPal, especially its unreliability and poor merchant support, while discussing alternatives like Stripe and Braintree.

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Sample Comments

dkjaudyeqooe Feb 13, 2024 View on HN

In my experience with Paypal that's not the case.

wyclif Mar 12, 2012 View on HN

Don't use PayPal. They are legendarily evil.

ig1 Jul 27, 2011 View on HN

There are alternatives like nochex, worldpay, etc. but none of them have a better track record than Paypal.

_Algernon_ Dec 30, 2024 View on HN

Paypal is one I've encountered.

tacojuan Dec 2, 2015 View on HN

I can't believe they're using PayPal of all things...

driverdan Nov 1, 2016 View on HN

Why would you want to use Paypal? It's a terrible service.

rtpg Dec 21, 2017 View on HN

Serious question: what about PayPal?

kalleboo May 13, 2014 View on HN

PayPal works fine when you're starting out, despite all the hate they get here

rwmurrayVT Jan 13, 2016 View on HN

Anything PayPal is intense. Security>convience with them

sanswork Jul 26, 2011 View on HN

Why are Paypal, Amazon and Google all no goes for you? I've heard a lot of negativity about Paypal for example but that is entirely from the merchants position.