Topic: CoinPal beta - Buying bitcoins with PayPal - page 5. (Read 170642 times)

I agree.

I'd just like to thank you for your support in helping me to get some of my first bitcoins.  The transactions were always swift and without hassle.

Since a chargeback against a credit card transaction is easy, I don't know that this would be an option for selling bitcoin "in the streets", though I suppose for friends and family it might be suitable.  2.75%.  No different than using PayPal, except that PayPal has the "personal / gift" option where no fees are incurred by the recipient.  AmEx's Serve is another credit-card + ACH based payment network similar to PayPal, and for now (through August, 2011) they charge no fees to either the sender or the recipient.  

Again, if you trust that you won't get charged back, these all work fine for person-to-person payment methods.

  http://squareup.com
  http://gopayment.com
  http://serve.com
  http://dwolla.com

There's a good list of options being built here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/using-cashout-services-for-trading-7069

Exchanging in and out of bitcoins for each transaction certainly gets to be expensive though.

I use square for my tech support business, it works as a good platform / example of how the transaction process might be able to work with a bitcoin wallet app. Either it does not require that you have the card, you can manually key in the CC info as well. Square has no idea what was bought, your CC company won't see the transactions as bitcoin.

But then who is going to email their CC info? I would hope very few unless they were using onetime use cards.

Liqpay is also a good credit card payment processing service.

Squareup looks like it might be pretty awesome, just in general.  At first glance at least.

Wrt Bitcoin, it could be excellent for face-to-face transactions.  Swipe the card, wait for the money to clear, use your phone to send the bitcoins.  Though, I can't imagine how there would be a significant amount of business for someone selling bitcoin in the streets like that.

Actually, I just realized that you can buy bitcoins with your credit card right now on the ebay auction I linked to, if you are in the U.S.

https://squareup.com/ might be an option for accepting credit card payments.... the logistics of actually doing it are a little beyond what my brain is willing to handle at the moment but it presents a path that may be walkable.

Ah here is the discussion I hoped to start here:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.103412, I made a list with all options I know.

If you are sad you can't buy bitcoins with your paypal account, you can always bid on my ebay auction. See the thread about it here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-100-mtgox-usd-for-sale-on-ebay-7072

Suggestion to mndrix:

Rather than devote yourself to creating one site for everyone in the world, perhaps working on allowing people to create their own, using their own countries' available services, would provide something more robust for people.

If there were a Drupal module for BitCoin, anyone could start a site and the only difficulty would be finding a service that would be tolerant of BitCoin.

The result would be that the effort would become distributed.  Lots of sites where people could use, and purchase, BitCoin.

If the BitCoin community collaboratively funded a BitCoin module for Drupal, it would certainly get written.  All manner of BitCoin services would appear, limited only by the number of users who had approached ATM and card service providers and had arranged something with them.  People would become motivated to approach those services and seek to co-ordinate with them, because the result would be a site they owned that many BitCoin users would use.  Small transaction profits would add up.

For BitCoin users who are unfamiliar with Drupal: It's a free open-source system for developing websites.  Very easy to create them, and you essentially just select modules (like a BitCoin module) and configure them for your site.  No programming skills are needed.  Point and click.

BitCoin users who'd like to contribute to developing such a module will probably find this useful.

Aww, that's a shame.

Awesome thanks, it doesn't seem to accept coincard transactions but I'm happy to have an otc rating for the bitcoins I bought 

Venmo might work ok for most as most people don't read User Agreements/Terms. Just click "Ok, I Accept" and proceed. Not uncommon terms though.

+1 on Venmo, sounds awesome, and exactly what we need!

this sucks, coincard was one of the main reasons I love bitcoin
hopefully the accounts will be unfrozen soon.

As far as I can tell, Green Dot doesn't have a public API for accepting payment.  I've contacted them several times about selling Bitcoins for MoneyPak, but they never return my calls or emails.

Thank you to everyone for the suggestions about alternative payment methods.  I'll consider them all in the coming months.

Yes.  Automated OTC ratings still work.  You can link your PGP key to your CoinPal account to receive automated OTC ratings.

It does't work here in Italy ...

sounds interesting. is it international?