Quote from: hjbuell on February 27, 2014, 08:28:22 PM

Soon I'm going to be accepting Bitcoins and PayPal on my writing site.

As I work 100% from advance payment on people I don't know or have a working relationship with, I'm not at all concerned about being screwed on the payment.

Likewise I am not concerned about being screwed with Bitcoin payments, because once it's done, it's done.

My concern is that articles might be considered as 'digital content' by PayPal, or force me to go through the expense of sending certified mail around the world. To date the only time I've been screwed is by working off invoice payments (and then I never get paid - so we no longer take that road - everything is 100% up front).

Does anyone have thoughts on this? Can PayPal reverse a transaction for an article I've written and submitted if a client clams it's digital goods? Presumably this falls under the same umbrella digital game downloads, game cards, and ebooks fall under, but I'm not Amazon, so it is a concern.

I have a decent list of clients, but am making these updates to expand that list. Any thoughts or recommendations are appreciated.

Cheers,
H

There are thousands of ways to part your cheeks and ram you when using Paypal.