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Hi Jacques, as someone who's had trouble with Paypal, what stops you from using, say, WePay in place of PayPal? I just wanted to understand your thought process regarding this?

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Nothing, I just have not had the need to pay someone for anything in the last two weeks. Alternatives that I can use are international wire transfers and western union. Both have their own set of disadvantages, I'm most likely going to give some other service (possibly wepay) a shot when the next payment comes up. (and that's going to be fairly soon by the looks of it).

Ok, do let us know how it works out :) I'm not sure if you'll be able to use WePay though, since their FAQs[1] state that they don't allow international payments at the moment(if that's what you'll be doing)

[1] https://www.wepay.com/about/faq#thirteen

Yes, international only.

If it's local I have much faster and more reliable ways than any web server, bank-to-bank transfers here are online and nearly instant.

Ok, so that rules out wepay then.

I can't speak for Jacques, but as a fellow european, the single one thing stopping me from using WePay is: (lack of) international payments. I've just integrated PayPal in my startup against my own better judgement, but as soon as we pull in a fixed amount of money (1000$ for now), I'm switching to a decent merchant-based solution.

I see, thanks c1sc0.

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