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Comment by andyhmltn | Hacker News Reader

Why do people still use PayPal? Their service is just absolutely insane.

Because indiegogo forces you to do it more ore or less.

Glad I didn't donate yet. If necessary I'll fly over and deliver it in person ;)

IndieGoGo actually support direct credit card donations, but a lot of people asked for PayPal as an option and we relented. So donating via. IGG actually works just fine - we have obviously disabled the PayPal option.

Wait... really? Because when the ubuntu phone campaign happened, I wanted to buy one, and didn't purely because I couldn't figure out a way to do it without PayPal.

Did I miss something on the page that would have let me pay without it? Oh well; too late now I guess.

I was in the same boat as you with respect to the Ubuntu Edge, as it turns out each campaign can choose which payment services to use. Ubuntu chose to only enable PayPal.

Oh dear, that's not a good situation then!

My sentiments exactly, if this were the first instance of this i would forgive them however it is not; I fail to see why paypal is used given it recent history.

Ref: GlassUp Campaign - Indiegogo Diaspora's Funding Account Skullgirls DLC by developer Lab Zero - Indiegogo Paypal even froze a $35k donation for cancer treatment and in another case forced Regretsy to refund all their donations.

PayPal terms of service strictly requires any kind of charity donation campaign to be approved by them in advance. Anyone who has their unapproved donation drive frozen by PayPal kind of deserve what they get.

I don't agree with that. They kind of emphasise that they want people using donation buttons and unless you are going into the ToS and looking (which I'm sure 99.99% of people don't) you wouldn't know that.

The more I hear these kind of stories the less insane PayPal actually becomes in my eyes. It's just that their service is very specific and tailored to eBay usage.

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