For future reference, never use your personal account to sell. Always go with 3rd party merchant accounts such as 2Checkout or FastSpring that provide excellent middleman protection.

It doesn't have a 25% share of the payments (yet!) but the payments that are sent through it are secure and irreversible, thus it makes sense for any merchant to accept it even if the amount paid thro

As a buyer i say skrill sucks, as a merchant seller I say fuck skrill

Over the years i tried to get multiple merchant accounts with Skrill in various segments (Hosting, Gambling, Money transfer) and they - for an absolutely unknown reason - only accept shady looking com

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@Jordan_NexHost Get a real Merchant Account that is properly underwritten, and set up Payflow for Paypal as the payment gateway. PayPal has flagged you as a high risk merchant, and the only way around

For the volume of transactions they do, linode will get a pretty sweet deal on transaction fees from their merchant. They possibly can't use other payment methods under this agreement. Repeat transact

I am down to one storage VPS now, and have no option but to keep it for another 2 months, as they apparently can't refund BitCoins (BitPay ALLOWS refunds, when initiated by the Merchant). https://sup

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Stripe re-opened our account after 18 months. We're using Braintree now - you do get a real merchant account included in that although there's no monthly fee and it works like Stripe. Oh and your firs

FYI both Stripe and PayPal aren't setting up proper merchant accounts for your businesses, hence why they will close your account at the drop of a hat and offer no support. Find a good First Data ISO

orders they get and needs an expensive/strict merchant acc, Prepaid CCs require a normal merchant account to cash out... and so on, not easy and especially hard outside of a country with lax banking

This is the first I heard of a $20 fee imposed on the merchant. Ouch.

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Given that PayPal can be reversed so easily by scammers, why should a merchant even accept it if they can accept just Bitcoin instead?

Well 3D secure is to protect you as a merchant. You don't need to implement it with Pro but then you are on the first line for charge backs.

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I got similar years ago. They wanted me to use a separate merchant account so they had no liability and charge 99/month for the management and API.

Maybe don't tell them your doing VPS per se? I got accepted for my merchant account here maybe two weeks ago.. Though to be fair, we don't deal with only VPS's.

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