EDIT : I would also like to know if Skrill is safe, how safe, and how I can make it more safe for me or completely irreversable. And what about applepay should I consider taking this method or is it a complete no on ApplePay.
When two or more people chose not to trust a service, its time to begin to evaluate the deal of that platform. While it might not be out-rightly right that people are avoiding that platform because of trust, it might be that because a lot of people have not heard about it and when you have not heard of used the service, it becomes difficult to issue an opinion albeit negative one.
For the other alternatives that you might be considering, what you need to ask yourself is why their platform is not saturated with people transacting with crypto and the simple reason to that is because they are not exclusively accepting crypto transactions as they can lock out an account even with funds locked so my suggestion is to stick to your Paxful that have made the available an escrow system and a dispute resolution to resolve when it arises.