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    Does anyone out there know of any viable, reliable alternatives to online payments in the US and/or internationally other than Bilderberger PayPal.

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    Default Re: PayPal Alternatives?

    Made a Google search, unfortunately, alternatives seems similar Bilderbergish.

    http://https://www.searchenginejourn...atives-paypal/

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    https://www.searchenginejournal.com/...atives-paypal/

    Though if you do a lot of Amazon buying I would suggest bitcoin and purse.io

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    Default Re: PayPal Alternatives?

    There are dozens of alternatives to PP: just Google "alternatives to PayPal" and see what comes up. The choices boil down to those that fit your needs: what country are you in? What bank are you with? Where do you want to do business? (by country or region) What fees are you comfortable with? What kind of security (and level thereof) are you willing to trust? Making a wise recommendation is only feasible if one has had experience actually using the service - as such, it's a jungle out there. Few of us are in such a position.

    It will take a deal of research, but there are plenty of options. Banking is such a lucrative field that it's not surprising that there are so many wanna-bes. New ones seem to pop up every month. And most seem to start from the selling point that they are not PayPal, the current gorilla in the room. Some will fit your needs better than others; in the end, though, they are ALL the necessary evil known as banks.

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    What I am looking for is someone who actually uses a specific PayPal alternative service and has had no problems with it. I am looking for something that is reliable that folks can trust that people have had personal experience with.

    There are stories of some outfits ripping people off and with the "economy" being what it is now, who knows what could happen. But I don't want to support or recommend a Bilderbooger.

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    Quote Posted by TrumanCash (here)
    What I am looking for is someone who actually uses a specific PayPal alternative service and has had no problems with it. I am looking for something that is reliable that folks can trust that people have had personal experience with.

    There are stories of some outfits ripping people off and with the "economy" being what it is now, who knows what could happen. But I don't want to support or recommend a Bilderbooger.
    I've used Skrill back in my poker days and never had an issue using it. I have been using bitcoin for years now to make online purchases and more and more companies are accepting it. I mentioned purse.io because they tack off 15-25% off of amazon purchases and the number of merchants accepting it and offering similar discounts has been growing.

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    There is also Western Union. Millions of immigrants (legal and illegal) and "guest workers" use this service to transfer funds to the families at home in other countries. As far as I can tell they are not of a larger financial bank or corporation, however, there have been allegations that they have invaded the privacy of individuals by giving personal information to U.S. law enforcement "to prevent terrorism".

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    The absolute, safest way, is to open a stand-alone bank account and use direct-money transfers......... old skool, but it works.


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    The challenge in answering this question is that Paypal is not a monetary medium. It is simply a gateway to a monetary medium known as "fiat currency" which itself is just a trading proxy for state debt.

    So your question might be more adequately posed as 'are there any alternative monetary media available other than state debt or its derivatives such as the world credit market'.

    The obvious answer to that is commodities - such as oil, gold, grain, silk, coal etc.

    However there is one tradable asset that exists as both a commodity and a currency which is capable of travelling through wires. The first such ever in existence since humans first walked this earth.

    It is known as Bitcoin.
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    Default Re: PayPal Alternatives?

    The reliable and good alternatives of Paypal are
    Payza
    Paytoo
    Google Wallet, etc.

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    i would suggest bitcoin too as there is plenty of infrastructure to make any sort of transaction. do your own research but personally its much better than most established for-profit centralised systems.

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    Default Re: PayPal Alternatives?

    If you're running a business then I would recommend Square for customer facing transactions or Stripe if you do purely, online transactions. Both have great customer service, are very easy to use, and have reasonable fees. I have personally used Stripe and the service they provide is outstanding!

    On the consumer end, I would recommend Skrill or Google Wallet. They are the only two that come close to what PayPal offers.

    There is also Bitcoin for the brave souls who don't mind market volatility.
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    Paypal's future doen't look too bright:

    From Jim Stone:
    HEADS UP TO ANYONE USING PAYPAL: I GOT THE ANSWER, AND IT MEANS YOU ARE SCREWED TOO.

    In short: Paypal did not manage it's employees well, it is a simple corruption problem that will probably kill the company.

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    HERE IS PAYPAL'S PROBLEM, THE COMPANY MAY BE FINISHED BECAUSE OF IT:

    Paypal is not getting screwed with by an AI. I received confirmation -- from a very large company -- that corrupt people within Paypal are messing with accounts and Paypal is trying to flush them out but is having troubles doing it.

    They are handling this by issuing people new accounts but I don't know how well that will work.

    Paypal may be a dead entity.

    This is why there are so many problems, and not a single notification about any troubles at all. If Paypal cannot fix this from the top down, they are TOAST.

    Claudia and I are trying to handle this by getting a real payment gateway set up with another company.

    The problems Paypal is having are extending out to people who are not even media related, certain employees (who are definitely leftist, and want to destroy alt media) are getting so corrupt that they are not stopping with media, they are beginning to attack other types of companies. To hide their attacks, they are not sending anything through official Paypal channels, they are in the code, screwing with people in the background. You can't behave like that with a financial business, Paypal is probably dead where it stands, and will definitely be dead if they can't flush these corrupted employees out.

    So it was not an illusion, I finally got a solid answer from a very large business that had to deal with this.

    Obviously this is a situation that is not directly related to the mail censorship issues that were always a problem but it does answer a lot, It is not only me, lots of people are getting totally screwed, and may not even know it!

    Once we get the site switched over to a different gateway, there will probably be no problems.
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    Stripe.com really growing in popularity

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