Tried egold?

[llegent]

Hi everyone, I am looking at egold payment option at the moment. Wondering if anyone here has experience in integrating their payment gateway in website? I tried to add it on my site but seems pretty complicated.

Just curious is there any known "potential" issues that I should be aware of?? Anyone?

[taiarain]

I haven't tried it, but ran a google search for you.

Here's a wikipedia entry on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Gold

[Pamil Visions]

Well, you are already working with paypal. My suggestion is, don't open too many accounts at once. Wait till you have a stabile income flow. There are not too many egols clients out there. Personally I trust paypal and plant to stick with it.

I also use clickbank for some affiliate programs, but clickbank is far from being as effective as paypal.

[taiarain]

Pamil makes a very good point about not oversaturating yourself with too many payment options.

Taia

[Pamil Visions]

So, llegent , how is that egold going on? Have you started using it? Let us know.

[llegent]

Hi everyone,
Have been tied down with several projects lately. Lack of effective time to visit forum and post more questions to seek help  . Well, I am back!!

Ok, at the moment I am still sticking to paypal as I find their service is pretty convinience for me. As advised, I didn't open account for other payment mode. More over, I feel save with paypal as the recent StormPay issue really give me a step back from going with more payment processor. I need to be caution.

[taiarain]

Sounds like a wise decision, Llegent.

Taia

[Pamil Visions]

Good to know. What can you tell us about StormPay? I've never tried it.

[taiarain]

It's had a few problems:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/10/payment_gateway_stormpay_battling_sustained_ddos_attack.html

Taia

[Pamil Visions]

Thanks Taia. I guess it's better to stick with my all time favorite, paypal. No problem so far... But I am a rather new member - since January this year, so... I'll see

[Melos]

Once upon a time, I had an egold account.  The problem comes when you want to take money out of it.  I don't know if it's changed, but it is a pain to find a reputable egold money changer to get your money transfered to PayPal or something else.

[Slashmire]

I guess that is kind of understandable; nobody wants to offer the service to transfer your funds in a competitor's account