Paypal experiences

Am just looking into my first cart for a client. He initially
seemed a bit wary of Paypal, so I looked into other options, and
concluded that a better, more robust option might be to get a
proper merchant account with a High St bank and go down that route.
But in the end, he's said he's happy to go with Paypal due to the
set up costs involved with a proper merchant account.
Looking again into Paypal I came across the paypal sucks
site, which wasn't too encouraging, as well as their sandbox
development site which does seem pretty good for testing a site
before making it live.
So any pointers, advice welcome really - are the paypal sucks
stories simply a tiny minority of all paypal users, as you'd get
with any service, or would there be a 'don't touch with a
bargepole' consensus.
I was planning on using Web Assist's ecart, but see that
there's a fairly straightforward Paypal cart - although that may
only really be good for single items, but it will take something
like Web Assist's solution to better manage a database driven
store?
Cheers,
Iain

I've used Paypal for buying/selling for 4 years with no
problems yet.
You can also look at Google checkout, which is a little
harder to set up but
a little cheaper.
I think those are the best two options outside of getting a
merchant
account.
Tom Muck
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> Am just looking into my first cart for a client. He
initially seemed a bit
> wary
> of Paypal, so I looked into other options, and concluded
that a better,
> more
> robust option might be to get a proper merchant account
with a High St
> bank and
> go down that route. But in the end, he's said he's happy
to go with Paypal
> due
> to the set up costs involved with a proper merchant
account.
>
> Looking again into Paypal I came across the paypal sucks
site, which
> wasn't
> too encouraging, as well as their sandbox development
site which does seem
> pretty good for testing a site before making it live.
>
> So any pointers, advice welcome really - are the paypal
sucks stories
> simply a
> tiny minority of all paypal users, as you'd get with any
service, or would
> there be a 'don't touch with a bargepole' consensus.
>
> I was planning on using Web Assist's ecart, but see that
there's a fairly
> straightforward Paypal cart - although that may only
really be good for
> single
> items, but it will take something like Web Assist's
solution to better
> manage a
> database driven store?
>
> Cheers,
> Iain
>

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