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I've tried it and purchased on my own link.

1) How soon until the money reaches PayPal? 2) There are no assurances that the CC data is safe. It looks to be sent over HTTPS, but you're assumed to be trusted.

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Awesome! I'm doing Net 60 as that's what Stripe does. The CC data is safe, but of course there's no reinforcement on-site. I'll add something.

Net 60 days? I would assume that users expect near real-time if PayPal is the back end. 60 days sounds way too long.

I'd assume it's at least partly to deal with fraud.

Posted on it as well. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/04/gumroad-launches-to-sell-d...

Wow - that's fast feedback! On a separate side-note would you be interested in early access to apps for similar sort of reviews / blog postings, or is that inappropriate to ask?

That's not inappropriate to ask at all. It's a fun hobby. Look through my site and you'll see I've done this a long time and have some big wins that launched first with me.

(TweetDeck, Beluga two examples)

Gumroad will be another. :)

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