Hacker News Reader

An obvious alternative is to pay to be with another payment service provider who sucks less.

Unfortunately thats not an option, if you don't offer paypal, it will cost you users..

I was cheating a little, clearly a payment provider who sucks less will be just as popular with users as paypal, or they wouldn't suck less!

"Better the devil you know... " or so the aphorism goes.

We've a burger kiosk very close to and far better than McDonalds (IMO) but everyone still goes to McDonalds. Brand loyalty, advertising, etc..