Paypal payment method support is coming to Ubuntu Software Center to easily purchase commercial software. Ubuntu Pay project aims to provide an easy and safe way to purchase software from Ubuntu Software Center and subscriptions to some of Ubuntu products like Ubuntu One.
Few hours ago Stuart Metcalfe “ISD Manager” for Canonical posted a couple of screenshot shows the Paypal payment method along with credit or debit cards.
According to the blog post the Paypal payment method will be launched before Christmas.
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Study Sees PayPal Adoption Down Among Multi-Channel Merchants
“Twenty-two percent of EPIS merchants who had accepted PayPal on their own websites and off-eBay stores in October 2010 stopped accepting PayPal as a payment method on those sites in October 2011.
“There were 19% more merchants who accepted credit cards on their own websites and stores in October 2011 than in October 2010.”
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y11/m11/i21/s02
Thankfully, Visa is to launch its new “V.me” online payments gateway next year. The idea is similar to that offered by PayPal: you upload details of your payment cards to Visa—even if they’re not Visa-branded—and Visa will process the payment without revealing your card details to the merchant.
At least off-eBay online merchants will at last be able to free themselves from the unprofessional, unscrupulous and “clunky” PreyPal. And, undoubtedly, PreyPal will then atrophy back to only it’s mandated use on the eBafia marketplace, from whence, without its mandated use thereon, PreyPal would never have had the success that it has had.
But, be in no doubt, except for its mandated use on whatever will be by then left of the Donahoe-stagnated eBay Marketplace, the clunky PreyPal will elsewhere be quickly buried by Visa’s professional offering, “V.me”, once it is up and running in 2012. No more underpinning of eBay’s sagging bottom line. What will the “eBafia Don” do now? Maybe, if Mittless Romney wins the GOP nomination he will pick his fellow “Pain from Bain”, Donahoe, as his running mate …
PayPal claims PayPal Is Not a Payments Processor!
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24148
Enron / eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.