Paypal Alternative Dwolla coming to GameGavel

[Parrothead]

Many of you have expressed interest in us looking for other payment methods to integrate with besides Paypal. Well, we have recently been looking at a relatively new arrival to the online payment business http://www.dwolla.com. They have something pretty good and we wanted to tell you all about it.

 

Essentially, they are a new way to make online payments and they only charge the recipient of the money a flat $.25 (Quarter) per transaction and any transaction under $10 is free. The one main difference from Paypal, is Dwolla does not use credit cards and only links to bank accounts. Their service is very safe and I have provided a link for you all to do a little research: http://help.dwolla.com/

 

We are going to be building in their integration just like we have done for Paypal and will give you a second option for sending and requesting payments for your auction sales. In the meantime, if you want to sign up and start using Dwolla you can. Registering is easy and you can immediately fund your Dwolla account with some cash from your bank account and use it to pay for items you buy on GameGavel. Both the sender and recipient of the money must be registered, just like on Paypal.

 

I believe in what they are doing and think it will be a welcome payment option for those of you who buy and sell on GameGavel. It is much cheaper than Paypal in the end and that can be a good thing. At this time, they do not offer any of the buyer protection provided by Paypal and that is the one drawback.

 

I urge our members to look at other member's feedback when buying and selling and take this into consideration when using Dwolla.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. Do you think they could be a viable alternative to Paypal? Have any of you used Dwolla?

Edited July 10, 2012 by Parrothead

[bojay1997]

What benefit does this provide to the buyer? It not only removes the option to use something other than cash from a bank account, but it offers zero protection if something goes wrong. Like the Gamegavel business model in general, there seems to be no incentive for the buyer to use the service at all.