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snoopy5 · October 19th, 2006, 02:55 AM

@ chuck & Michael

the same problem arise with any kind of virtual content we are selling on the net, i.e. community access to forums and galleries.

There is a workaround for this:

You can change the settings in your PayPal account, so that you do not accept credit card payments or checks with you PayPal account. Only cash.

Most fraud is done with checks, that are not covered or if a user is saying to his credit card company, that he did not authorized that money transfer 3 months later. I went through all of this. A lot of work and only 80% of the cases you get finally your money as a seller.

Simply disable these 2 options in your PayPal profile as a seller, and only people who have really cash on their paypal account can pay Photopost with paypal.

At the same time, if Paypal nevertheless starts withholding money, send them an e-mail that this is virtual content. Try to contact them and they shall write in their databse, that you are selling ONLY virtual content, nothing else with this paypal account.

The whole buyer protection system of paypal is from the perspective, that someone bought something at ebay. So a good is delivered. This is not the case with virtual content (i.e. software and community access), so PayPal will not block the money then in the future.

I think everybody here will try to make money with his photopost licence in the long run and paypal is by far the best way to make money with users on the net. So it is normal, that you can increase your sales with paypal orders who want to buy photopost.

And yes, the sales team is accepting on a invidual basis paypal if you talk to them. All my PP/ RP/ CL licences have been paid with Paypal (>10)

October 19th, 2006, 02:55 AM	#19 (permalink)
snoopy5 Ultimate Member Verified Customer Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,172	@ chuck & Michael the same problem arise with any kind of virtual content we are selling on the net, i.e. community access to forums and galleries. There is a workaround for this: You can change the settings in your PayPal account, so that you do not accept credit card payments or checks with you PayPal account. Only cash. Most fraud is done with checks, that are not covered or if a user is saying to his credit card company, that he did not authorized that money transfer 3 months later. I went through all of this. A lot of work and only 80% of the cases you get finally your money as a seller. Simply disable these 2 options in your PayPal profile as a seller, and only people who have really cash on their paypal account can pay Photopost with paypal. At the same time, if Paypal nevertheless starts withholding money, send them an e-mail that this is virtual content. Try to contact them and they shall write in their databse, that you are selling ONLY virtual content, nothing else with this paypal account. The whole buyer protection system of paypal is from the perspective, that someone bought something at ebay. So a good is delivered. This is not the case with virtual content (i.e. software and community access), so PayPal will not block the money then in the future. I think everybody here will try to make money with his photopost licence in the long run and paypal is by far the best way to make money with users on the net. So it is normal, that you can increase your sales with paypal orders who want to buy photopost. And yes, the sales team is accepting on a invidual basis paypal if you talk to them. All my PP/ RP/ CL licences have been paid with Paypal (>10)