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by cwilson 5240 days ago
PoundPay is super interesting, because from what I can see, only Amazon has a solution that essentially handles escrow transactions (which is what KickStarter uses). You're right however, I haven't heard much from them lately (as opposed to Stripe, who seems to be killing it). There was also a limitation with PoundPay of being US only, which is not an option for many companies.
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Stripe's model depends on marketing and press, PoundPay has gotten really good word of mouth by the companies that currently use it (for our startup we've looked at our own processing, paypal, amazon, and just about all the options)
US merchants, international buyers -- just like Amazon (FPS) and Etsy's current systems. Which countries would you be most interested in us adding?