PPPay.com - Is it A Scam?

rtX wrote: »

Wondered if anyone had used PPPay.com? If so, how was the experience and is it a scam? I cannot find anything on a google search but it seems to be closely linked with ebid.net and I do not know them either!

I am certain that the sarcasm of those who responded to my original post has its audience. For the sake of clarity, I was asking about people's experience of PPPay.com and whether they had had any problems with them. I have only used PayPal and Google Checkout previously. I wanted to know if PPPay is a scam. I could not find anything suggesting it was a scam when I did a Google search (as I said in my original post), and although I did not record how many hits there were when I searched on the name (apparently "36,600"), I did bother going to the first fifteen or so pages and many of them were to ebid.net who I had not heard of (I use ebay), or were links to "news" sites I did not know either. I searched the BBC website and got no hits at all. Whether you choose to believe me or not, is your choice and is more a reflection of your cynicism than of my integrity. However, I do know this: If I was asked on a forum about something about which I know, by someone who has clearly less knowledge, I would not immediately assume that they were either disingenuous or stupid, and would in the first instance try and help them rather than ridicule them. And incidentally, someone elsewhere did just that, and I am now more enlightened about both PPPay.com and ebid.net. I would encourage you to consider what has put you in a place where you are unable to respond helpfully to what may just be a naive posting.

I think what you say is largely correct. However, many of the money saving tips on this very site seem too good to be true, and if I did not make the effort to enlighten myself about them, I could very easily end up spending a great deal more than necessary. The reason I was checking out PPPay.com was because I was planning to bid on a computer system on ebay (the price of which I suspected was too good to be true) - I wanted to use the escrow facility that PPPay offer because it is much cheaper than ebay's recommended service, escrow.com. However, the seller was not prepared to use any escrow service at all: I did not bid. I hope the winner does not get ripped off. Thanks for responding.