Well, I can't say that I'm a big player in the e-commerce
world in any way, but I'v taken a close look at what PayPal
offers. The thinks *I* like with payPal are :

- When bying, my credit card information stays with PayPal.
  It isn't sent to the seller. Makes it more comfortable to
  buy from smaller/unknown sellers (and from others to buy
  from me, I hope !).

- When selling, Paypal takes aprox 5% commission which I
  think is reasonable for there service.

- The fee for a transfer to a Swedish bank account is aprox
  $0.80 USD each time, which I think is *very* resonable.
  (The fee for a transfer to a US bank account is $0.00...)

- Paypal have a nice online HTML generator to generate the
  code to put on your webe page by filling in some web forms.

And the Paypal pages that a buyer (that wasn't a PayPal user
before) sees are rather clean with a good usability, I think.

Anyway, I don't have much experience from online shopping/selling
but I'm still impressed with the simplicity and ease of PayPal.

Doing all the credit card processing myself, would be way more work.
Now I just get a notification mail from PayPal, and I'll ship the stuff.

And, just remembered, if you have some local order processing system,
you can get specialy formatted (machine readable "records") mails
from PayPal with payment/order information that can be automaticly
loaded into your system for further processing.

Best Regards
Jan-Erik Soderholm.

Olin Lathrop wrote :

>I've looked at Pay Pal.  That might be OK for hobbyists, but I think it's
>too much hassle for the customer.  I know I've just moved on whenever a
>site required me to have a Pay Pal account.

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