Selling online - is paypal a good option?
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| Hello, a friend of mine wants to sell motion-design videoclips and I'm wondering what's the best advice on services that collect payment. He is considering: a) manual processing for orders (can be quite tedious). b) using an automated service, paypal-like. He would like to be able to limit customer downloading to just one time. Is paypal a good option? Thanks in advance. |
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| Try BMTMicro. |
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| Or Fastspring |
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| & Plimus. |
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| Paypal should work, but if you're thinking of offering just one payment method, then you should be aware that quite a few people have a rabid aversion of paypal and won't be ordering from you if that is all you offer. |
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| Thanks for the suggestions, will read their Terms of service and guess he'll have to decide based on those + rates. Regards. |
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| & Plimus. check the recent thread about them on Indiegamer. they have some very dodgy practices. |
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| I too have heard many bad things about Plimus, though I have no experience of them myself. Here is a survey from 2009 on the various ecommerce solutions. The info is dated now but should still be relevant to some degree. |
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| Yikes. My middle-man was rated below average in 2009. But then, so was my volume... |
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| stick with FastSpring or BMT: they are the best. Check this for a comparaison: http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/10/12/a-survey-of-ecommerce-providers-for-software-vendors/ |
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| I use Google Checkout, but there are people against them just as there are people against PayPal. |
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