Wow scarey... I signed up for PalPal in November after having read great things here at VAF. Have just recently starting using....received pmts from client --not transferred to account yet (rather have paid payments from PalPal) == Love their invoicing!

Darn, I was going to check into Intuit. I've had Paypal forever, never had problems until someone got my PP debit card number and tried to use it. I had to cancel the card and ask for a new one. They told me I didn't qualify and after getting upset on the phone with one of their people, they finally reissued me a new one. I learned to transfer everything to my bank account immediately after that and only use my debit card once in awhile.

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MKS Designs Services Pink University

You might find this site interesting:

http://www.screw-paypal.com/alternatives/top_pick.html

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Here are some others:

http://blog.webdistortion.com/2010/0...es-e-commerce/

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/...fsb/index.html

http://lifehacker.com/5821634/why-yo...d-people-money

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-onlin...s-hate-paypal/

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Thanks Peppy for these information. I especially like the screw paypal site. Good information!

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MKS Designs Services Pink University

An update -- I have expanded Deb's Professional Services to make it more of a family business. We use PayPal. I have transferred $/ withdraw $ to my bank account and it worked great. They told me it would take longer to get to bank than it actually has. I have sent $ to my dau-in-law and she has withdrawn from her pp acct to bank; as well as my both my daughters doing same with no problem. One dau does transfers it to her work-issued debit card. Any problem we have had with PayPal when we call it is settled immediately over the phone. Hope this helps someone.

I've had a few issues with paypal. One is they froze my 10 year old account with them twice. I've never had anyone ask for a refund, it was a general audit. Imagine seeing all of your hard earned money in there and no one being able to put money in because the account was frozen.

I have their debit card and just use that to withdraw money out of the account when I need to deposit because its immediate. It's easy but I swear the above issue was terrible!

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http://www.danimagestro.com

Just encountered REFUND. I had sent $ via pp to my dau. She needed to withdraw before the timeframe that pp quoted re getting into her bank (I had explained it usually didn't take that long). She ended up telling me $ refunded to me -- got it immediately back into my pp account.

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