Question:
I’ve received both PayPal and Billpoint payments from buyers in the US, and continue to accept both forms of payment. But Billpoint is guaranteed to give me exactly the right amount of pounds in the end. PayPal doesn’t guarantee that, and its payments take far longer to reach me. US buyers may prefer PayPal, but as a UK seller I prefer Billpoint.
Point taken; I certainly didn’t mean to suggest PayPal was superior to Billpoint. Since Chris apparently didn’t have any method of electronic payment in place until this buyer wanted to pay by PayPal, I was thinking specifically about this situation, but I would have been more accurate if I’d stuck to saying something like "a method of taking credit cards." I’m also slightly biased by primacy–I remember my gratitude when PayPal finally let me pay people in the UK without having to do a major song and dance, and by the time Billpoint joined the game, the novelty had worn off 
. Deborah Stevenson
Response:
Thanks to everyone that replied, especially Deborah and Vivienne. I thought I saw that $20 thing somewhere, but couldn’t understand it. Thanks for the explanation. Chris
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I have just signed up for PayPal. I am a UK seller and have started selling worldwide after a couple of years of just selling to UK. I have just made my 1st sale to a US bidder for
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