please tell us more about your experaince with escrow.com and fees. is it international? or only some countries?
How? This is not true. One payment processing must not fit others. How come we get paid from freelancing site to alertpay? Actually, try to find out what type of business you have. And search for best payment processing. For eg. Freelancers can get paid through Check or Bank Transfer or MB or Paypal or Payoneer (These are the most common payment methods for freelancers). So if we don't want to use Paypal then use alternative like check (time consuming), bank Transfer (expensive min $30+other fees), payoneer (some suggests $400 and above is okay, need to maintain account with monthly fees), and MB (seems okay but not perfect takes more time than Paypal) If you can avail of other methods like alertpay then go with it. I guess they don't do wire transfer rather send checks. For companies accepting CC cards, may use 2co but they have new rules less than $2500 can not be withdrawn( be sure checking their site). I would suggest to opt for Indian Payment solution if affordable for you. So, we can say, there is NO real alternative of PayPal in practice. Still, I would like to use all possible methods from now so that I don't need to depend only on PayPal.
Look at their calculator, it seems too HOT for me and may be others too! Bank transfer and exchange rates will be added with min fees. Think whether you or your buyer can afford before proceed.
Moneybookers is #1 and if anyone needs any help setting up with MB just PM me and I ll try my best to help you.
But according to Shamser's post in this thread through MB we loose good amount of money compared to Paypal.Isn't it?
here is your answer read this whole post carefully-> http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1686018
I guess he is talking about large payments, for small payments clearly we should stay away! if he could show us something as I did then it will really be helpful for us.
I don't see any reason for not using MB as of now... I just initiated verification for my MB account till then I can use that with specified limits...
well, after completing first transaction keep us update, how much you get into Bank account for how much USD/EUR
That update will take time as I don't have money in MB and none of my client uses that. we have to ask them to move to MB and it will be atleast 5-10 days before I will be able to do a withdraw... But Looking at their fees structure (help pages) I am sure that it will be almost same as paypal
This is a forum of web masters and no one is willing to start an alternative to paypal? lol Quite a nice niche for you if you did ^^
I agree with you dear. They are popular because we are using it. Look at our HUGE strength. If all Indians starts to use Moneybookers or alertpay, they will surely provide more services. Don't forget that paypal started bank withdrawal to India only two years ago. India is a big market. So most of the foreign companies want to do business here. Services are based on consumption. I think moneybookers can fulfill our needs. There is no harm in trying MB. I request to all my Indian bros, do open an account at MB and slowly start to migrate. Don't depend on just one option. It's a matter of your earnings.