what do you think are the best alternatives to paypal

for lower transactions in particular as i know escrow is one of the best for higher transactions:)

I like the way that Template Monster works in which they give their clients the options of either using PayPal (recommended) and 2CheckOut (which basically accepts credit cards without the sign-up hassle).

Of course, there have been some disgruntled customers against 2CheckOut lately; but just like PayPal, you have to be careful and go with caution anyway.

i actually bought the domain webmasterads.com from a reseller and i paid through 2 checkout because he said that paypal doesnt give the seller that many rights i.e. the buyer can just withdraw the payment

I also use 2checkout.com They had alot of troubles a while back but they seem to be back on track now :)

what problems did they have?

The main problem I think was that the orders where taking a long time to be processed and email notifactions where not been sent out when orders where made ect. 2checkout also have forums and they say they are considering closing them, I think its beacuse it gives them such bad publicity.

yeah i suppose forums can reflect the true opnion of a company

a good thing if they are solid - a bad thing if there messing things up

The problem with paypal is it doesn't accept creditcards of few countries. So people of those countries can't use a paypal account.:sad

Anybody know other Email based payment sysems like stormpay.com?

Ran across this yesterday www.paystone.com. One problem doesn't accept credit cards. But checkout the micro-payments.