Legally get a paypal merchant account

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Hi im thinking of opening a online business and as we all know paypal is 1 of the biggest most trusted payment processors , i know that they dont support us having merchant accounts but is there a legal way to get 1? i dont mean get a prepaid debit etc etc because if investigated the account would surely be frozen by paypal
 
Just get a family member living abroad to put the paypal account on their credit card. Pay Pal wouldn't know that you don't live there :)
And yes, it is legal. They told me to do that when I wanted to receive money that way.
 
froot said:
Just get a family member living abroad to put the paypal account on their credit card. Pay Pal wouldn't know that you don't live there :)
And yes, it is legal. They told me to do that when I wanted to receive money that way.
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i dont have any family out of SA:(
 
matrixweb said:
hmmm then why cant they just except payments all the time!:erm: why is SA such a backward country
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Probably the same reason due to some cases Amazon had a while back with theft in SA... so they stopped the service in South-Africa
(The problem lies here and not there... :mad:).

If you want something from Amazon these days you have to pay a lot more than our oversea friends :/
 
but there has to be some way to legally get a paypal merchant account from here in SA , they has to be someone that has done it
 
there is a thread here some where in the lines of how to recieve money with paypal that described a method of sort.

but i'm to lazy to search for it now "D
 
i know what method there talking about but its tricky , if paypal investigates then the account would surely be frozen
 
Been there, done that, burnt the T-shirt. It took me almost a year to get the account "unfrozen" - and cost a small fortune.

Complete waste of time. Their "customer service" people treat us like criminals. Never, ever again.

Why not use Moneybookers?
 
TheREV said:
Been there, done that, burnt the T-shirt. It took me almost a year to get the account "unfrozen" - and cost a small fortune.

Complete waste of time. Their "customer service" people treat us like criminals. Never, ever again.

Why not use Moneybookers?
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Moneybookers is gone quite shady , search online for moneybookers scams , closing account for no reason , taking the peoples money for no reason etc , The only true payment processor that is trustable is paypal but we cant even get merchant accounts
 
i have a paypal account ! I buy stuff regularly on ebay uk and never had any problems
 
I've been trying to find a way around the problem for 2 years now, eventually gave up. You can try moneybookers, google checkout ($50 sign up fee), alertpay, kagi .
 
I think the problem with alternatives that everyone's running into, is that Paypal is THE trusted name.

Google Checkout sounds like it may be a decent alternative though because of the generally trusted Google name.
 
Yeah thats why I gave up, the alternatives were lacking that, I would have gone with googlecheckout but the procedure to sign up is admin, and payment to us is by cheque.
 
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