BillPoint

Pros: No cost to winning bidders
Cons: Ridiculous fees for sellers & hold time of funds

Billpoint is the newest online payment service on the internet scene. Billpoint is the official payment service of Ebay.com, put in place to help Ebay buyers and sellers expedite and complete an easy transaction; or so I thought!

Billpoint,...

Pros: free for buyer, allows acceptance of credit cards
Cons: open to fraud

I admit it - I once used and even liked eBay's Billpoint service. Billpoint allowed for the quick use of major credit cards (Mastercard, Visa, Discover) as well as using a checking account to purchase items. While the service was free to the...

Pros: Allows you to accept credit card payments
Cons: slow on deposits to your account(s)

I have used BillPoint for about 3 years now, since EBAY
started to offer the on line payment option.

They have several benefits.
1. You can accept on line credit card payments.
2. BillPoint sends you an email confirming...

Pros: Somewhat integrated with Ebay, allows international bidders
Cons: Doubles the cost of an auction if buyer uses it

If you had the choice of two services that are virtually equivilent, and the only differences were that one is free, and the other charges you, I would imagine there would be no hesitation in choosing the free service. This is exactly the situation that...

Pros: Integration with eBay
Cons: No chargeback protection means you can get screwed, high fees, site difficult to navigate

I am enraged today. Even the fact that I have closed my BillPoint account does not provide me any reason to be less angry.

Have you ever heard of chargebacks? These are the eBay sellers’ worst nightmares, if they use...

Pros: eBay's payment system; Accepts credit card accounts
Cons: Expensive; Transfers do take time

For a number of years now, Paypal has dominated the e-mail-based payment system. It has been a godsend to many of us who have items to auction. It has thousands of users. (Please take a look at my review of Paypal!). In 1999, Paypal partnered with...

Pros: Conveniently bundled with Ebay
Cons: Bully tactics to wipe out competition

As an avid user of Ebay, I have used Billpoint many times. I find it convenient to use as it is bundled with Ebay and provides your bidder fast access to "checkout" and pay for their auctions with a credit card or online check. However the downfall to...

Pros: They take Discover
Cons: The fake, dumbed-down, really bad version of PayPal

I joined eBay long before they had BillPoint payment services available. Soon after I joined eBay, PayPal came out, and was an extremely popular payment service. Many people were using their credit cards on PayPal to pay for items thru auctions. eBay...

Pros: Ease of use
Cons: Cost to sellers

Billpoint works fine - but that's not the point.

As far as ease of use I would have to say that Billpoint, on eBay at least , is easier to use for sellers and buyers. However, it costs the seller money. There you have it in a nutshell. I have...

Pros: International payments, transaction summaries, creates an invoice
Cons: Expensive, there are free alternatives

Billpoint is an online billing and payment system that allows Ebay buyers to pay sellers securely and easily. But why should sellers pay Billpoint's fees when they can accept payments for free through PayPal and other services?

The...

Pros: quick when it works
Cons: Usually it doesn't

Having been introduced to BillPoint via Ebay, I was initially impressed with it's apparently secure and immediate system of payment. On further introduction however, I now feel compelled to advise prospective users against it.
I have only...

Pros: Quick and Easy
Cons: Seller's fee for each payment

Now, all I see is negative critics to Billpoint, well let me tell you my case.

I live in Spain (Europe) and won an ebay auction. I couldn't pay with my VISA through PayPal because my credit card doesn't have the PayPal required three...

Pros: Owned by Ebay
Cons: FEES

I buy and sell on Ebay and that is where I found out about Billpoint.com. Ebay recently bought Billpoint and is currently doing a pilot program with certain Ebay sellers.

I consider Billpoint's worst aspect is that they are charging sellers a...

Pros: integrated with Ebay
Cons: fees, fees, and more fees

Billpoint has one main advantage that gives it an edge over EVERYONE: its alliance with Ebay. If you're a serious seller on Ebay, and you want payment fast, this is definitely a good service. The PayMe logo (if you selected Instant Payment at the start...

Pros: None
Cons: Excessive charges for what is free elsewhere

As an extensive user of eBay, I'm always interested in features which can help me in my buying and selling... but this one is NOT a good deal! I first became aware of it through prominent ads placed on eBay, so like a good eBayer, I went and...

Pros: save a $1 for each transaction if you sign up your VISA
Cons: a bit time consuming

NOTE: This epinion is from a buyer's point of view only. I haven't had any experience with this service from a seller's point of view.


I initially heard about Billpoint when I was browsing some ebay auctions. A seller had Billpoint's...

Pros: ebay
Cons: customer service, charges, billbacks

I am disgusted with BillPoint and will be leaving as soon as I get my payment. The e-bay auction ended 2 weeks ago. I received an email stating that I would see payment in my checking account within a couple days.
Immediately, I sent...

Pros: Can send money via electron check
Cons: Fees, Payment delay,

Billpoint is one of the Internet's newest way to send cash online. I sell a lot on Ebay and was very impressed with paypal. Since Billpoint was promoted so much by Ebay, I decided to give it a try. I was very disappointed with their service. First of...

Pros: Absolutely NOTHING!
Cons: Poor customer service & Everything else!

I recently opened an account with Billpoint approximately 3 weeks ago hoping that I had found an alternative to PAYPAL. I just started selling things on EBay and was looking for a slightly more convenient way to get my money besides PAYPAL and boy was I...

Pros: None!
Cons: Charge fees for something you can get for free!

Billpoint is just another way for Ebay to get their greedy little hands on more of our money. Billpoint is a way for Ebay sellers to accept credit card payments - but Billpoint charges the SELLER fees to make it convenient for the buyers.

I...

Pros: None
Cons: When Billpoint takes several days to process a deposit, what do they do?

In April 2001, I sold a Playstation 2 unit on EBay. I was foolish enough to use Billpoint, thinking that I would have a better chance to sell it if I allowed the buyers to pay with a chargecard. A buyer bought the Playstation and asked that I ship it...

Pros: Seemed good at first.
Cons: Chargeback ripoff. They blatantly lied to me in email and on the telephone.

They blatantly lied to me in email and on the telephone.

After sending me a letter informing me I was going to have a chargeback because the person paid twice. This was over 3 months after the end of the auction.

I faxed them proof...

Pros: Allows business to accept credit cards without a merchant account
Cons: Poor - poor - poor customer service!

I have an actor headshot business in Hollywood, Ca and have used Billpoint services to allow me to accept credit cards from actors/actresses who utilize my services.

Over a week ago I could not gain access to my online account with them. I...

Pros: Seems like an up and up company unlike Paypal. They use precautions.
Cons: Not cautious enough.They don't verify physical addresses of regristrants. Invoicing Problems. Embarrassing email policy.

I don't Paypal or Billpoint that much, but I'll do my best to make this a brief informative picture of Billpoint.

SECURITY PROBLEMS OR SLOPPY BANKING

Billpoint in the past month, emailed my customers with invoices that do not match...

Pros: None as the cons so badly outweigh any pros
Cons: Irresponsible and sloppy

BILLPOINT does not verify credit card information. BILLPOINT will tell the seller a name and address which has nothing whatsoever to do with the true credit card holder's identity. And, if you ship to the NAME and ADDRESS which Billpoint gave you,...

Pros: Easy way to send money
Cons: You have to give your bank info

Of all the money sending services on the net, I like Billpoint the best.

Like Paypal, Billpoint is a way to send and receive payment via the internet even credit card payments. You will pay a fee (after their promotion is over) for this...

Pros: none
Cons: ebay automatically places check marks next to service,poor customer service,chargebacks,

Use billpoint only if you want to waste your money, that is my opinion. I didn’t realize ebay started automatically putting a check mark next to billpoint's online payment service. I never accepted billpoint before and never will again.out of 3...

Pros: international buyers can use
Cons: eats up mor of your profit.

I signed up for billpoint just because I was curious and thought it might help my international sales. So far in 2 months, 7 people have tired to pay me with billpoint. 3 have been successful. The other people got the typical Ebay run around and...

Pros: It's free to buyers
Cons: Takes a long time to deposit funds, unorganized, customer service - not good.

When I first started using Billpoint I had one problem after the other. My customers couldn't put in their shipping amounts, since this was different for each customer.

It took forever for deposits to be made to my account.

...

Pros: Ebay backing
Cons: bad service and No phone number to contact with

In Oct. I won an auction and I paid through Billpoint. I always pay whichever method the seller wants. The seller let me know that she had been paid. I noticed on my checking account that a payment was made to Billpoint on 10/18/01. On 11/15/01 I...

Pros: eBay sponsored.
Cons: eBay sponsored.

As a long time eBayer, I kept seeing that BillPoint logo up in the corner and kept wondering what it was all about. When I finally looked inside, I decided that the price was too high. I subsequently joined PayPal, which has filled my needs, and then...

Pros: It will allow you to use echeck as well as credit cards
Cons: Their customer service is atrocious! They have no phone number.

I have used this service 3 times. 2 out of those 3 times I had awful experiences. They have no phone number for customer service! I finally obtained a number using Alexa, but when you call you have to leave a message and hope someone will get back to...

Pros: Free to buyers, can accept international payments, can pay with a check.
Cons: Painfully slow deposits for sellers, and even more painful fees.

As on on-line seller, the faster I can get my money, the better. I accept Billpoint, and have had great success with it. However, the first time I received a Billpoint payment, I was astounded by the fees that were imposed on my transfer. I do not...

Pros: Did not require buyer to register
Cons: Changed the rules in the middle of the game

I signed up for BillPoint a couple of months ago and used their service four times. My transaction limit when I signed up was $500. The last time that I tried to send a BillPoint invoice for $470 I got an error message rejecting my invoice. It seems...

Pros: None that I can think of
Cons: System allows buyers to commit fraud 100% of the time -- Fees high

Billpoint is a service (run by EBay and national bank Wells Fargo) that lets regular people accept credit card payments over the Internet. It is especially useful for receiving payment for online auctions. The service is free for the person who sends...