Originally Posted by
theElench
"....multiple integrated ways of paying."
Perhaps @ebid management should seriously consider adding Stripe (and others?) to the integrated checkout here? As I've been locked out of PP for over a week I started another thread on their boards. One of their volunteer advisors advised a (to me) convoluted way to add an App. to my lap-top which might enable the "Ring My Landline" option to work. To me it sounds like Hogwash, PP is creating a problem to get everyone to use mobiles for some benefit to themselves.
The advisor also (because of my previous posts history?) added a link to a post by a PP Moderator giving the PP "official" line -- without a mobile you might have problems accessing your account. Not any help to me but that post was dated February 2020 and they've made no progress towards a solution since then.
Go to any of the forum sections - Basics - Payments - Account and others and there are pages of threads with the same complaints, Can't Log In - Locked Out - No Mobile - No Signal - Old Number But Can't Change It, etc. etc. etc. The number of people UN-able to use PP must be increasing daily. With PP apparently "un-able" to solve this "problem" and becoming un-usable for so many, isn't that in itself a good enough reason for ebid to start looking at more reliable alternatives?
We haven't even got to the September deadline for PSD2 / SCA to become a regular compulsory feature of internet buying and selling yet. Will the problem become worse when we do? Ebid and its sellers might begin to notice declining sales if they are too reliant on PP. Conversely, offering alternatives that are set up properly to implement SCA without causing any problems to their users might find a new popularity.