I've been looking into alternatives for Paypal (because Paypal has only support for 55 countries, I had a customer from russia lately who had to go through payru.com to make a payment, I think the comission they charge are unfair).Lately when I visited wikipedia I saw they were using Moneybookers as an alternative for paypal to make donations to them...
There are a few advantages to the moneybookers system:- support for a lot of countries: only residents from Myanmar and Nigeria are not allowed to create an account- support for a lot of currencies: Euro, British Pound, Bulgarian Lev, U.S. Dollar, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Estonian Koruna, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Israeli Shekel, Japanese Yen, Latvia Lat, Malaysian Ringgit, New Taiwan Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Polish Zloty, Singapore Dollar, Slovakian Koruna, Slovenian Tollar, South-African rand, South-Korean won, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc and Thailand Baht.
There are a few disadvantages as well as far I can see:
- a big drawback for me is that you seem not to be able to create a button for your website with a set price (have a functionality like the paypal buy button)
- before I visited wikipedia I never heared of moneybookers before, the website states it's there since 2002, but still I don't know how reliable that info is...
Now for the questions:
- Does anyone use/have used Moneybookers before and how are your experiences with that system?
- Are you using an other alternative for PayPal? If so which system and how pleased are you about that?
Monday, November 19
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"support for a lot of countries: only residents from Myanmar and Nigeria are not allowed to create an account"
That doesn't have to do anything with those Nigerian bank transfer spammers, does it?
Anyway, I used that before, but those weirdos banned my bank account number for unknown reason, and their tech support are probably a bunch of monkeys, because I sent them emails and they responses are completely senseless.
I use nothing other than PayPal now, if your country is not supported, tough luck, mine wasn't either until like 2 months ago. Of course, if you need this, go for MoneyBookers, there is no better alternative at your status.
moneybooker is great. Low charges and good currency when you exchange in different currency.
They also have a very good verification system. They deposit in your account a small amount to check it. Also they send you a letter home and you just enter a serial number in their page. No unnecessary things like sending them copies of your passport and this kind of things that Neteller has.
i have a moneybookers account because this other guy only accepted moneybookers - other than that i havent seen anyone who accepted moneybookers.
i dont like the system either - you have to pay moneybookers in advance in order to "charge" your account. its not a direct creditcard transfer
not recommended
Money bookers competition it's alway good because they struggle to give a better service I'll check it out.
never ever use moneybookers !!
i had only $20 in moneybookers and they asked me tonns of questions like giv i card, details of business, business partner and just their support is horrible.
they hav still kept my moneybookers account locked past 15 days. i have emailed all the details they asked 1 week ago and still have no response frm them.
i only accepted 4 moneybookers payments from my site www.googlybot.info
and bingo, it sux.
i hav done paypal transactions worth $3000 and no one ever put a question frm paypal.
well moneybookers is huge in europe, mainly ppl use it for gambling (casino, poker)
as a bridge between bank and gambling site. I don't like it because it charges a lot for checks. Just my opinion.
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