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Advantages: Quick, secure, easy
Disadvantages: Small charge made

As you know I have recently opened a shop on Ebay selling watches and clocks – the shop address is on my Ciao home page if you’re interested. I had quite a few overseas bidders ask if I used any of the automated payment sites and I had to say ‘no’ and request cheques including an extra £5 costs so that they could be converted back to sterling by my bank. Clearly this isn’t a good idea and, if wanted my shop to be a success, I needed to sort out ... Read review

Advantages: This service is fast, convenient, and free to individuals.
Disadvantages: You have to pay a small fee to have a check cut, and some people might inadvertently believe that this site is one hundred percent secure.

...online auctions or rewards programs, PayPal.com is the site for you. The leader in E-commerce transactions has provided, for several years running, an absolutely free service for private users along with inexpensive rates for business transactions. Users from many different countries and regions can indeed send and receive money through PayPal.com’s tried and tested secure servers. Yes, your transactions are as safe and secure as any online ... Read review

Advantages: ideal for online auctioneers, many uses
Disadvantages: only in US $

Right this is for all of you who buy and sell in Internet auctions - or take part in any of the Web rewards programs - Pay to Surf, read email etc etc. Paypal is a MUST ! You must have seen the logo while you have been browsing an Auction site. You’ve probably also seen it as a payment option, if ever you discover a ‘rewards program’ that actually pays. Well, Paypal is a long established and highly reputable system whereby people ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to receive and send money from anywhere in the world, Security
Disadvantages: Charges on some transactions

Pay Pal is one of the easiest and safest way to transact your online purchases and expenditure. At present there are over 9 million Pay Pal users worldwide (in 36 countries) and the number is increasing rapidly. The company is American based and are completely open to International members. The major reasons why this has been such a success is the Security. Providing your Credit Card number on the Internet has always been very scary to ... Read review

Advantages: great in theory
Disadvantages: not so great in practice

The premise behind paypal is both simple and appealing: The internet is a slightly scary place to shop, so rather than risking giving your credit card details out online, you set up a paypal acocunt and shift money through there - they deal with the companies, you get added piece of mind and everything is joyous. Better yet, you can send money to people, demand money from people, all at no cost. Furthermore, reward sites can reward you, shifting money ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, Safe & Easy
Disadvantages: Fees for some transactions

PAYPAL.com, and PAYPAL.co.uk is one of the largest online money transfer sites available today. With over 45 million users PAYPAL has become the leading company for consumers to send and receive money for customers, clients or friends. SO WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT IT? *PAYPAL is open to everyone who has an email account and its free to join. (small amount charged to bank account initially, but refunded once account is active) *PAYPAL offers a very ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and simple transactions, can attract more eBay custom
Disadvantages: Hidden charges can prove very expensive, terms and conditions are often vague

PayPal has always meant "no cheques needed" to me, someone who must have spent at least a thirtieth of his life on eBay and who is sick of licking those thin, long envelopes. When I received my 'proper' debit card from the bank on turning 18 I went straight to it, and began to build up a considerable balance through selling things on eBay. But now, this has ceased... read on to discover the terrible secrets of PayPal.com... The acquisition by ... Read review

Advantages: Collects money owed to you
Disadvantages: Payment in U.S. Dollars, Need an account which allows $ transfers.

A lot of new internet sites are springing up especially in the U.S. and most of them allow U.K. members to collect rewards, especially "Paid to Click" and Paid e-mail sites, however with most of them the pay out can be very small, around 50c to $2 a month each, payment being in U.S. currency, a lot of them also have a minimum payment varying from around $15 to as much as $100, this obviously can take a long time to collect, indeed with the earnings ... Read review

Advantages: Convenient way to send payments via the Internet
Disadvantages: Poor customer service when things go wrong

Paypal can be a wonderful way to send and receive money securely and anybody who uses it will agree. It is easy to do transactions and you are always emailed a copy of your transaction be it money going out or in. This is where the praise ends!!!!!! Firstly Paypal is not a bank it is a company who handles online secure payments and is therefore not governed by the same rules or regulations of banking institutions For those who are not familiar ... Read review

Advantages: Fast Secure Deposits and Withdrawals (Now to UK Banks)
Disadvantages: Not enough Casinos use it at present, Access can be slow at times , possibly due to the site being busy at the US peak period

I gamble in a small way at online casinos, my tactics have been to cash in when my account showed $100+ balance. However some casinos will charge $25 to send a cheque, taking up to six weeks to arrive from the USA to the UK, and then my bank was charging $15 (£10) to cash it, leaving me with $60 (£40). I was starting to wonder if it was worth the hassle, considering I was leaving my credit card details with lots of different Casinos mainly in ... Read review

Advantages: quick way to pay for tings, especially ebay
Disadvantages: no protection for sellers, seem to deliberatley want to screw you over

Paypal for those that don't know is essentially a way to pay people over the internet by debit/credit cards. As long as they have an email address they can receive money. All good in theory as may not want to wait for check to clear or may have difficulties paying with cash etc. Main use for me is paying for items purchased on ebay. As pay instantly item is sent quicker as no waiting for cheques to clear etc. All was fine until I just sold a ... Read review

Advantages: great way to accept payments for auctions
Disadvantages: have to pay 2.99 for bank transfer

I have just signed up for paypal and found out these cool new things On my auctions with e-bay I can use paypal to accept credit card payments And make payments easier for people and myself instead of going through The hassle of them sending you a cheque you waiting several days for the Cheque to clear and then going and taking the money out of your bank account To pay for the postage and packing and then sending it and then them waiting Several ... Read review