Discontinuing Paypal Service

Due to policy conflict issues between Paypals security department and our Account Review department regarding our ability to investigate and prosecute fraudulent transactions processed through Paypal's system, and issues relating to continuing problems from relying solely on Paypal to process our online payments, we will have no choice but to discontinue accepting Paypal payments in the very near future. This is unfortunate as we had hoped that with Paypal's experience with their parent company (EBay), eventually they would offer some neat tools that we could integrate on site for our thousands of vendors that use Paypal to process their payments.

We are currently reviewing other payment solutions such as Google's new Checkout payment service, as well as more traditional credit card processors. It is likely that we will begin transitioning to the new payment system at some time in September once a decision has been made and the secure processing systems implemented. For the time being we will continue to process payments using Paypal until the new system has been thouroughly tested and the switchover has occured.

This of course will have no impact on your businesses ability to accept payment via Paypal for your own goods and services, it just means you won't be able to use it to pay for services here with our business in the near future and we will be unlikely to be implementing any Paypal specific features in our communities.

We apologize in advance to our users, clients, and vendors for any inconvenience this may cause.

Jeff Barringer
President/CEO
OnlineHobbyist.com, Inc.
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