[vkou]

As a seller, you don't have a choice. You can:

* Accept PayPal, and play ball with their policies.

* Disparage them, and get your account seized.

* Not accept PayPal, and lose out on millions of customers.

Please don't say BitCoin is an alternative. Unless you're selling heroin, or your entire customer base consists of crypto-anarcho-libertarians, it's not.

[renesd]

* Use alternative payment systems.

[pc86]

Equivalent to #3. There are a lot of people who only use PayPal online. In the HN space? Probably not that many. If you're selling shirts or random widgets online? The GP is not exaggerating by saying that literally millions of people will get to payment, see they have to type in a CC number and that PP is not an option, and they will leave.

[Shivetya]

for the most part if you use EBAY you really don't have much of a choice and as a buyer ebay pushes paypal