Offer PayPal as a payment option

Could you not get a Visa Debit Card from your bank, its accepted everywhere a visa card is, but the funds come directly from your account, so no interest, no monthly fee etc. (here in uk)

I think Paypal also do one themselves

I'd like to second (third?) the Paypal option. Seriously.

Ben said:

I'd like to second (third?) the Paypal option. Seriously.

PayPal charges sellers a fee to use their service. They also prohibit sellers from passing that fee on to buyers.

Super.Tramp said:

PayPal charges sellers a fee to use their service. They also prohibit sellers from passing that fee on to buyers.

All the major credit cards charge sellers a fee as well, not sure of your point.

American Express 2%-3.5%

MasterCard, Visa 2%

PayPal 2.9%

Super.Tramp said:

They also prohibit sellers from passing that fee on to buyers.

Not true - no way to police that. It is well known that retailers raise their prices to cover credit card fees. I think you might mean AMEX members cannot offer incentives to customers to use other credit cards that have lower processing fees, which is true (and is currently being challenged in court and being reviewed by US government as anti-competitive practice)

Super.Tramp said:

I have a Premium Business membership with PayPal and that is what they told me concerning eBay. PayPal is not regulated by the government. If you use their service you must agree to and abide by their terms of use.

This just prevents me from charging you one price without PayPal and another price when using PayPal. Since they all charge fees, there is no violation if I just raise my prices 5% across the board.

Unrelated, the government has been going after the credit card companies to clean up restrictive practices for a long time. You can be they will go after PayPal too once they get the credit card companies in line.

"Unregulated by the government" - Comcast used to say that :-)

I have had trouble with PayPal, had to get my bank invoked and will not touch this service ever again. I hope you continue to have no problems Brian, but I personally can not recommend this as a safe method of payment.

Brian Knapp said:

Please offer PayPal as a payment option. I have been using it for years with no issue. For those of us who choose not to have credit cards, there should be a simple way to pay for materials. I have had to mail checks in and wait — what a downer. When a good sale or something comes along, it would be nice to just jump on the bandwagon and start reading, etc. (I'm trying to give you more money — won't you help me?) 

With all the resources you have in your catalogue, and how spendy some of them are, it is difficult to see the business sense in eschewing ANY payment method. I write this as a business owner myself. 

Just my two shekel's worth. But seriously, get PayPal. Please.

I have money I can spend in my Paypal, that I cannot spend on a credit card. My wife watches the credit card account, but doesn't care what I do with the money I earn that comes into Paypal.

Ergo, if I cannot pay with Paypal, Logos does not get that money.

Super.Tramp said:

Once they gain access to your bank account, they can ruin you.

I have never been aware of them taking advantage of that bank account access to do nefarious things. I didn't use to trust giving any company access to my bank account (e.g., my utility companies, to draw my monthly payment out automatically). But in Europe they'd been doing such things for years, and we started doing it more and more over here too, so I gradually took a leap of faith. The convenience is great. But I do rely on my government to protect me from businesses gone amok. Not that the government is perfect either. But I believe in checks and balances. If we hold them accountable and they hold businesses accountable, then there's less likelihood of fraud all around.

I would definitely support Paypal as a payment alternative to my credit card.

+1 to the request to use PayPal.

Frankly I would rather see them spend time and money on other things.

I despise paypal (and I don't use that term loosely).

PLUS all of you clamoring for Logos to accept paypal can simply get a paypal debit/visa/checkcard/mastercard, and pay with that if you must.

Rather than go into a detailed explanation of my issue with paypal, I suggest you google paypal, non-profit, and donations. They simply take peoples money, and you have no recourse to get it back because its all done within the rules of the agreement you sign.

They only snagged a small amount of my money (~200$), well money that belonged to a legitment non-profit under a 501.3c that I was responsible for at the time. But needless to say only a little theft is required for trust to be destroyed.

I appreciate you looking out for me MJ.

I still have a dour view towards paypal. I earnestly hope no one trusts them with any amount of money that they can't afford to lose.

abondservant said:

I still have a dour view towards paypal. I earnestly hope no one trusts them with any amount of money that they can't afford to lose.

I don't trust them.  They will never have access to any of my accounts ever again.  Sincerely hope Logos does not go down the road of offering this service as a payment option. Allowing a third party to be involved in the transaction only increases the risks.

Brian Knapp said:

There is no such thing as a transaction which doesn't involve a third party. Merchant services of some sort are used in the processing of every credit card purchase. 

I may have used the wrong terminology in using the simple description of "third party' but this does not change the fact Pay Pal can not be trusted I would not recommend their service to anyone that values the security of their bank accounts.