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Alternatives  By brwood(view all posts by brwood) at 9:58AM
Wednesday December 7, 2011 under Personal Finance  Recently
(Monday?) PayPal pissed off a lot of people. You may have seen
the story on Jezebel, Consumerist, or a bunch of other outlets:
Regretsy collected $2 donations from thousands of users to buy
toys for needy kids for Christmas via a PayPal "Donate" button.
PayPal froze the account and went on to provide a very nice
example of how not to treat your users. Anyway, last I heard it
was being worked out--someone at PayPal issued an apology and
promised a donation to the Regretsy cause.  Still for many
people online it was one more nail in the coffin of PayPal. All
you have to do is a little Googling to read page after page of
complaints against them. So here are a handful of viable
alternatives I was able to find while looking online. There are
pros and cons to all of them, and most li