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Is there an alternative to PayPal? (Original Post) sweetroxie Feb 2018 OP
Venmo flying_wahini Feb 2018 #1
Venmo CountAllVotes Feb 2018 #6
owned by PayPal Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #7
Venmo.... Sedona Feb 2018 #2
Venmo is a mobile payment service owned by PayPal. CurtEastPoint Feb 2018 #4
It's my understanding... TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #3
Facebook has something California_Republic Feb 2018 #5
Adyen will soon become ebay's primary payment provider... Paypal can still be used BUT hlthe2b Feb 2018 #8
I don't know how much Thiel still has invested in Paypal since it was sold in 2002... hlthe2b Feb 2018 #9
square for credit cards. using it with never a problem in 3 yrs nt msongs Feb 2018 #10

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
6. Venmo
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 03:14 PM
Feb 2018

Venmo is a mobile payment service owned by PayPal. It allows users to transfer money to one another (within the U.S. only) using a mobile phone app or web interface. It handled 17.6 billion dollars in transactions in 2016.[1] In Q1 of 2017, it handled 6.8 billion dollars in transactions, which more than doubled its volume in Q1 of 2016.

Same thing different name it seems.

Read yesterday that PayPal will no longer be used on ebay.com soon. Now what?



hlthe2b

(102,225 posts)
8. Adyen will soon become ebay's primary payment provider... Paypal can still be used BUT
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 04:08 PM
Feb 2018

only by going offsite:
Why eBay abandoned PayPal for a smaller European competitor

EBay will continue to let customers use PayPal as an option for checking out until July 2023, but most of eBay's payments will be processed by Adyen by 2021.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/why-ebay-abandoned-paypal-for-a-smaller-european-competitor.html?recirc=taboolainternal

hlthe2b

(102,225 posts)
9. I don't know how much Thiel still has invested in Paypal since it was sold in 2002...
Sat Feb 3, 2018, 04:13 PM
Feb 2018

Peter Thiel is a managing partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies. He co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk, and served as CEO until it was sold to eBay in 2002.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3064713/why-its-almost-impossible-to-boycott-peter-thiel

The above article suggests he no longer has an "affiliation"; whether that also means no investment is unclear to me.

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