PayPal Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
PayPal is an Internet business which allows the transfer of money between email users, avoiding traditional paper methods such as checks/cheques and money orders. PayPal also performs payment processing for e-commerce vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which they charge a fee.PayPal, headquartered in San Jose, California, was founded in 1998 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, and at one time occupied the somewhat notorious 165 University Ave., Palo Alto, California office location. Due to the manner in which the company operates, they do not qualify as a bank and they are not obligated to abide by the legislation that governs banks. PayPal is considered a money transmitter in many states and is licensed as such where required.
In its initial incarnation, PayPal was a service for users to send money via PDAss. While the PDA concept was a flop, the web-based payment system began to catch on. With aggressive marketing campaigns offering $10 (and later $5) for new users to sign up, the firm grew at a meteoric rate of 7–10 percent per day between January and March 2000 [1].
PayPal was acquired by eBay in October 2002. PayPal had previously been the payment method of choice by over fifty percent of eBay users, and the service competed with eBay's subsidiary BillPoint. eBay has phased out its BillPoint service in favor of retaining the PayPal brand.
PayPal is the most widely used service of its kind. However, a number of users have had frustrating situations with PayPal authorities. A controversial aspect of PayPal is that they have a policy and history of closing accounts and withholding funds for reasons that they will not disclose. Another controversial aspect is that PayPal is not subject to normal banking regulations, which means that users do not have many of the legal safeguards they would with conventional banks.
Competitors include Yahoo's Paydirect service, and services offered by Citibank. Yahoo's competing service is currently free for all users after the web portal briefly experimented with, and soon abandoned, the idea of collecting additional fees from consumers. Citibank has since shut down its service, leaving the true electronic money transfer market mostly to eBay's PayPal.
Other competitors include those that sell money orders (that are mailed by the company) over the internet that can be ordered via credit card. One such competitor is run by Western Union, known as AuctionPayments.
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