[maxclark]

My immediate reaction reading the post was “don’t use PayPal”

Online marketplaces, multiparty sellers, credit card transactions, etc… are hard enough as it is

Don’t become dependent on a vendor who’s absolutely terrible to work with

[iforgotpassword]

If you can pass on a chunk of customers sure. I've canceled a purchase more than once at checkout when I saw there is no PayPal available, if the website was unknown or looked a little shady, and I didn't desperately need the item. There are people who don't buy at all if there's no PayPal just because it's less convenient.

[domoregood]

This. Also, remember that from the consumer standpoint, PayPal was the first ever trusted payment processor that didn't pass your payment account info (bank, CC#, debit card info) along to the vendor. Granted, they passed along your email+shipping address. But the vendor would have had that info anyhow if you were purchasing some physical item from them.

So there's a large swath of the consumer population that views PayPal positively and will skip a purchase if there's no PayPal option.