Ask HN: Is Braintree as evil as PayPal?
I have never had a problem with PayPal, and the only stories I see of people having problems with PayPal are <i>always</i> doing something obviously bad, such as presales or calling a payment a &quot;donation&quot; or purposely lying about their location to get an account. PayPal offers cheaper pricing than Stripe for smaller sales and faster ramps for bulk discounts on large numbers of sales. It also has had a &quot;complete&quot; offering with APIs capable of managing chargebacks and separated authorization and capture since before Stripe existed (features Stripe didn&#x27;t even seem to understand are important), and has done so with extreme API and UI consistency (which is absolutely key for any infrastructure component, and has been a complaint I&#x27;ve seen against Stripe, who seems to like using their customers as guinea pigs). What has been the experience you had with PayPal that has turned you off from them so badly?