Re: Re: Paypal questions

Walter Vermeir wrote:
> When I look at the numbers PayPal has a large commision.
> 
> http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_PayPal_donations_for_2003
> 
> From a 5 euro donation PayPal recieves 0,55 euro. The price of a bread.
> 
> When there are cheaper options the should be used.

I absolutely agree.  I intend to set up one of the new servers with
ssl, and to set up a merchant account for us, so that we may directly
receive Visa/Mastercard/etc. payments, without the need for Paypal as
an intermediary.

There are significant security issues involved with setting up such a
server, but I've done it before.  (Well, actually Jason did it.)  The
main thing is to not store credit card numbers online for any length
of time, and even then to only do so with maximal PGP encryption.

--Jimbo