Paul,

Thanks for the info. I'm only half way through reading the Digest version so
I'm sure other people have responded to this thread but my curiosity started
when I happened upon an acquaintance of mine who's a professional comic book
artist and a fellow web designer.

I saw that he does commissioned pieces and has a PayPal account set up for
those purposes so the ol' noggin (brain) got to workin' and I'm wondering if
this might be something I could add to my site for stuff like commissioned
caricatures and other stuff like that. From this perspective, I'm wondering
if PayPal is something that should only be considered if you tend to have a
lot of sales through the web site. How is it if, say, you only sell a
handful of items a month? Is it beneficial to have PayPal? Yes? No? Maybe?

I also know of other artists who typically sell their stuff on eBay but I'm
not sure if they use PayPal or just do the "send me a check" honor system
thing or not. I've been meaning to investigate this a heck of a lot more but
between the full-time web designing gig, coaching high school baseball,
getting ready for my Toronto trip in a week or so (Wow! That was fast) AND
getting ready for MY OWN Men's 30 and over Baseball league, I'm finding it
hard enough just to find enough time to sleep!

:-)

-Chris


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> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:35:59 -0600
> From: "Kaosweaver" <kaosweaver@kaosweaver.com>
> To: <dreamweaver@blueworld.com>
> Subject: RE: Paypal accounts: The good, the bad, the ugly? (WAS: [OT]
> Yourdonations can be made out to...)
> Message-ID: <200303031035.AA204800604@kaosweaver.com>
>
> Chris,
> I use Paypal and SWReg for my payment processing. However, I am considering
> switching to the dreaded merchant account (about the same cost, just more
> management details and record keeping).
>
> Most (75%) of my business comes via Paypal, >1% via check and the rest via
> SWReg. Having SWReg did increase my sales verse Paypal alone, it also allowed
> me to accept purchases from anyone anywhere. I recommend Paypal and something
> else. Plenty of services exist for payment processing and SWReg is less
> expensive than most (they do charge $20 a month, but per transaction costs are
> lower), but they are significantly more expensive than Paypal.

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