| jeffweico | 06-17-2011 04:12 PM | Here is the thing... We see only the bad stuff. The truth is, 90% of PayPal users will never have a problem with them.
Unfortunately, for those of us who are honest but were flagged in their attempt at rooting out the fraudsters, selling online can be difficult. PayPal is by far the most trusted payment processor on the internet. In many buyer's minds, not accepting them is the same thing as operating a fly-by-night business.
Also, the banking meltdown didn't help things. Prior to 2007, business credit was easy to get. It was all about MORE, MORE, MORE!!! Now it is about eliminting any and all risks, no matter how small.
The fact is, credit card and PayPal transactions are funded by investors. And right now, investors don't want to put their money at risk. So, anything less than "A" rated paper is difficult to finance, if it can be financed at all.
Add to that eBay's drive to lure larger sellers and their disdain for smaller sellers. That is what has created the situation we are in.
Things will change, new services will appear, the economy will get better. But it is going to take a long time. Unless, of course, the USA defaults on its' debts in August. Then, all bets are off.
At the end of the day, all we can do is adapt. I don't like change, I'm an old guy (well, in my mid-40's anyway) but we just have to accept it. There is no other choice. The internet has changed the world like nothing else before it. And we are just at the beginning of the internet age. In 2020, we could be talking about 2011 as "the good old days".
But "the good old days" are never what they seemed to be. It is human nature to remember the good times, and gloss over the bad times. You remember tha happy day you got married, but not the following week when your wife threw a frozen turkey at you. You remember the weekend that you and your best friend had a blast in Vegas, not the time a few years later when he died of cancer.
And, in the case of the stealth forum, we see the problems, not the good stuff. For every post that goes "I JUST LOST MY NEW EBAY ACCOUNT" there are still 20 other new accounts going strong. So don't despair. Life goes on. It always has and it always will. |