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Assuming you're in the United States or one of the few countries blessed by Stripe.


PayPal works fine when you're starting out, despite all the hate they get here


That's said like a true "pre freeze" user.

If paypal had a mechanism to pre-validate, to avoid having 10's of 1000's of dollars frozen, then they'd be fine.

They get hate because their approach to post-hoc fraud limiting has fucked over thousands of people. Don't dismiss the hate, they earned that hate one customer at a time.




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