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I am really glad that I've read this. I plan to build a bit unorthodox website and I was intending to use PayPal for money transfers between the users. After reading this I am almost sure that my PayPal account would get suspended at any decent amount of popularity. Can you point out some other alternatives? I was thinking about money bookers.



With Moneybookers, you'll have the problem that they'll be flagged by US banks as a gambling site. Repeatedly. One of my customers in Europe uses Moneybookers to pay me, because their fees are really quite attractive in comparison to PayPal. But because Moneybookers are in the UK and we all know what a gambling haven the UK is, I have to keep a constant eye on my bank.

(But my bank bounces every other payment to joker.com for the same reason. Amateurs.)


Does your bank reject payments to your account done with moneybookers and you have to explicitly remind your bank that you want those payments and then everything is ok?


Occasionally. I have to admit it hasn't happened in a while, but I don't use moneybookers that often.




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