Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>or is it just me? No, I had trouble to get there too, it took hours, but I finally went through. Too many people are buying my tags, this is whay... I'm the one to blame! ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/

Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Matt Robertson
I've been doing subscriptions (hosting) there for a couple of years. Same with selling software where they send you back a response that you can use to register a user and do whatever with.  They used to claim authorize.net compatibility but I don't know if thats still the case.  Dropped them for

RE: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Ian Skinner
I use 2Checkout to sell software. The admin interface is ugly but generally it's satisfactory and the setup costs are negligible. If I remember correctly though I could not use them for subscriptions.  They only handled transactions where a tangible "Product" existed.  The where not set up to do

Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Matt Robertson
Ah 2CO... When they are working its all smooth, but if there is *any* sort of problem you are in hell. I had several problems with regular clients who were paying for services and 2CO would simply dump the transaction as 'fraudulent' without bothering to give me a courtesy email.  I took to emaili

Merchant Account (SOT: Connecting to PayPal)

2004-10-12 Thread Bob Haroche
> Can anybody here recommend other reliable and affordable credit card > processors that are not expensive to set up?  With this recent news I would > be much more comfortable if we had an alternate to PayPal. I'm also looking at e-commerce subscription services for my own business. One reason I d

Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Damien McKenna
Matthew Walker wrote: >I use 2Checkout to sell software. The admin interface is ugly but generally >it's satisfactory and the setup costs are negligible. >   > The web hosting company I use had problems with them.  They started noticing "mistakes" in the billing, e.g. the hosting company was bein

RE: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Matthew Walker
I use 2Checkout to sell software. The admin interface is ugly but generally it's satisfactory and the setup costs are negligible.   _   From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2004 7:45 a.m. To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: Connecting to PayPal On a s

RE: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Ian Skinner
On a slight tangent to this topic: I just started the initial steps to use PayPal to process credit cards for subscription to our outdoor recreation maps.  I was asked if there where other economical options to allow credit card payments for immediate subscription to a website.  When I last looked

Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Jordan Michaels
Ouch. I bet the tech's responsible are swating rivers... if they're not already fired. I can't even comprehend the cost to customers... not to mention the cost to paypal itself No. Fired is too nice a word. More like: hucked out a window by their ear. At any rate, thanks for the info. It's

Re: SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Ray Champagne
See this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6228586/ They are experiencing MAJOR problems.  RUN!!! Ray At 02:08 PM 10/12/2004, you wrote: >I'm having trouble connecting to paypal. Are they experiencing a DOS >attack or is it just me? I can get to every other site just fine... but >paypal is resp

SOT: Connecting to PayPal

2004-10-12 Thread Jordan Michaels
I'm having trouble connecting to paypal. Are they experiencing a DOS attack or is it just me? I can get to every other site just fine... but paypal is responding so lowly that by the time I actually log in, my session has already expired. Thanks for any input! -Jordan [Todays Threads] [This