Comment Re:Why do you think no one uses it? (Score 2, Insightful) 257
Oh ye of little faith and lotsa blindness :-)
The reason many e-gold-accepting sites look pretty poor is because they are almost always owner-designer-operator jobs of someone doing it all himself. You are comparing a garage sale with a frigging strip mall and then wonder why there is no cafeteria in the garage.
I haven't come accross any pedophilia or similar pervert sites accepting e-gold in quite a while. There were a few early in the year but the more respectable 'exchangers' and their association made it difficult for them to get their ill-gotten gains out of the system.
There is an entire casino site, built specifically for e-gold and other online currency users, which doing rather well for itself. Of course, they are actually pros and not one of the cut and paste carder jobs the web is rampant with.
Lastly, there are 1.5 million e-gold accounts, about half of which are funded, which isn't huge, but sizeable.
Credit cards are pro consumer, charge backs are easy for buyers, fraud is rampant.
e-gold is pro-merchants, charge backs are impossible, fraud is reasonably moderate, and e-gold does react to complaints by suspending accounts, but you need a court order to get more details.
PayPal is pro PayPal. The charge back from both ends, play buyers against sellers and keep the loot from both sides. At least that is what used to happen quite frequently.
Imagine you sell some kit for a grand and six months later PayPal grabs a grand from your bank account and tells you the charge was reversed, because the buyer was a crook. Imagine then you personally know the buyer and know he's not a crook. Worse, imagine the buyer calls you and tells you that P(r)ayPal took the money off his account and off the account of someone who had bought something from him earlier, as well.
That used to be PayPal. I'm not sure if they still are, but it did happen to us, so I believe every single word at www.paypal-warning.com
Now go to
http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=310408
a nd sign up for an account :-)
The reason many e-gold-accepting sites look pretty poor is because they are almost always owner-designer-operator jobs of someone doing it all himself. You are comparing a garage sale with a frigging strip mall and then wonder why there is no cafeteria in the garage.
I haven't come accross any pedophilia or similar pervert sites accepting e-gold in quite a while. There were a few early in the year but the more respectable 'exchangers' and their association made it difficult for them to get their ill-gotten gains out of the system.
There is an entire casino site, built specifically for e-gold and other online currency users, which doing rather well for itself. Of course, they are actually pros and not one of the cut and paste carder jobs the web is rampant with.
Lastly, there are 1.5 million e-gold accounts, about half of which are funded, which isn't huge, but sizeable.
Credit cards are pro consumer, charge backs are easy for buyers, fraud is rampant.
e-gold is pro-merchants, charge backs are impossible, fraud is reasonably moderate, and e-gold does react to complaints by suspending accounts, but you need a court order to get more details.
PayPal is pro PayPal. The charge back from both ends, play buyers against sellers and keep the loot from both sides. At least that is what used to happen quite frequently.
Imagine you sell some kit for a grand and six months later PayPal grabs a grand from your bank account and tells you the charge was reversed, because the buyer was a crook. Imagine then you personally know the buyer and know he's not a crook. Worse, imagine the buyer calls you and tells you that P(r)ayPal took the money off his account and off the account of someone who had bought something from him earlier, as well.
That used to be PayPal. I'm not sure if they still are, but it did happen to us, so I believe every single word at www.paypal-warning.com
Now go to
http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=310408
